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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That is also BS, what psychological research? Where is data? Anecdotal at best. The other is from PracticalWedding?! is this a joke to you?[/quote]

NP.  This really isn't a debated point anymore.  There is plenty of medical literature on infertility causing high levels of depression and anxiety.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8142988

[i]Abstract
To compare the psychological symptoms of infertile women with patients with other chronic medical conditions, subjects completed the Symptom Checklist-90 (Revised) (SCL-90R), a standardized, validated and widely used psychological questionnaire, prior to enrolling in a group behavioral treatment program. All subjects were female and the totals in each program were as follows: 149 with infertility, 136 with chronic pain, 22 undergoing cardiac rehabilitation, 93 with cancer, 77 with hypertension, and 11 with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive status. The infertile women had global symptom scores equivalent to the cancer, cardiac rehabilitation and hypertension patients, but lower scores than the chronic pain and HIV-positive patients (p < 0.0001 and p < 0.02 respectively). The anxiety and depression scores of the infertile women were significantly lower than chronic pain patients but not statistically different from the other groups. The results suggest that the psychological symptoms associated with infertility are similar to those associated with other serious medical conditions. Therefore, standard psychosocial interventions for serious medical illness should also be applied in infertility treatment.[/i]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016043/.

[i] a 2004 study 3 utilized a structured psychiatric interview. A total of 122 women were interviewed prior to their first infertility clinic visit and the results were striking; 40% of women were diagnosed as having anxiety, depression, or both. Subsequent research has supported these findings. Volgsten and colleagues4 reported a 31% prevalence of psychiatric symptoms, the most common of which was major depression. In a large Danish study of 42 000 women5 who underwent ART treatment and were screened for depression prior to treatment, 35% screened positive. In another recent study of 174 women undergoing infertility treatment, 39% met the criteria for major depressive disorder.6 In one of the largest studies to date,7 352 women and 274 men were assessed in infertility clinics in northern California. It was determined that 56% of the women and 32% of the men reported significant symptoms of depression and 76% of the women and 61% of the men scored reported significant symptoms of anxiety. Not surprisingly, recent research documents that infertility patients consistently report significantly more symptoms of anxiety and depression than fertile individuals.8 Finally, in a recent concerning study on suicidality in 106 women with infertility, 9.4% of the women reported having suicidal thoughts or attempts.9 [/i][/quote]
Sure depression and anxiety, but comparing it to cancer? A. my basal skin cell carcinoma isn't that big of a deal. My aunts' lung cancer and friend's brain cancer was deadly. Few months. left to live. Fertility is about choices, you need to make a choice based on your diagnosis. To have a kid, try, adopt, etc...Most terminal cancers don't offer you a choice. [/quote]

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