Moreso, Upkong et al (2006) and Makanjuola et al (2010) conclude in their studies that infertility can result in high levels of psychiatric morbidity in women as a result of stigmatisation. Also, the study carried out by Oladeji & OlaOlorun (2018) among infertile women in Ogbomoso, South Western Nigeria, revealed that depression prevalence among women with infertility is high. Hence, this means that infertility and depression walk hand-in-hand and can destroy the woman if not well managed. Infertility cuts across gender so couples experiencing this should come together to
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combat it and not shift blame. Also, those who specialise in helping women with infertility in hospitals should provide support in the area of their mental health.
Quote “The truth is that just as – biologically – males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species, so man and wife together undergo the oppression of an institution they did not create. If it is asserted that men oppress women, the husband is indignant; he feels that he is the one who is oppressed – and he is; but the fact is that it is the masculine code, it is the society developed by the males and in their interest, that has established woman’s situation in a form that is at present a source of torment for both sexes.”
Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex, 1949)
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