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Please learn reading comprehension. It isn't a blanket comparison, it's about the impact on your stress. And obviously those are general categories (i.e. "infertility," "cancer"), but the point is that [b]if you fear living without what makes your life meaningful but don't have a socially acceptable channel to express that grief and anger, it's hugely isolating[/b] -- as stressful and isolating as many other major disease diagnoses.[/quote]

Totally agree that infertility can be extremely depressing and isolating, especially when you're surrounded by people getting pregnant left and right.  I do bristle at the blog post where the gist is "I've been through cancer and infertility, and infertility is worse for x, y and z reasons" when those reasons are based on the fact that it was an easily treatable cancer.  I guess the title is just to get your attention, but it seems cheap and insensitive.  And my experience with infertility is that when I told people about it, they were as supportive and understanding as I could hope for and definitely didn't try to diminish that.  I can't get behind comparisons that suggest that people understand cancer but they don't understand infertility, especially since many people with cancer have to deal with their own fair share of insensitivity and people having no idea how to react.[/quote]

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