Infertility affects many couples in India, but its impact on mental health is often ignored. People facing infertility experience stress, anxiety, depression, and social pressure, especially women. In many families, infertility is still seen as a personal failure, which leads to blame, shame, and isolation.
Mental health is not a side issue in fertility treatment. Emotional well-being plays a major role in reproductive health and treatment outcomes. Without proper emotional support, medical treatment alone may not be effective. Men also face mental stress due to infertility, but they often hesitate to talk about it because of social stigma.
Experts say fertility care should include counselling and mental health support for all genders. Doctors, families, and society must treat mental health as an essential part of infertility care. Until this happens, scientific progress in fertility treatment will move faster than social understanding, leaving many people emotionally unsupported during their journey.
