Pathological fear of pregnancy4/27/2023 ![]() Pregnancy and anxiety related to childbirth are very common in women. She was diagnosed as a case of tokophobia with major depressive disorder. There were ideas of hopelessness and worthlessness and also, feeling of guilt and suicidal ideation. Pregnancy is a major physical, psychological, and social event in every woman’s life.Īnd just some of my least favorite parts (bolded by me) She was punished for not wanting to risk her life having her husband’s baby and/or doing exactly what he wanted so she stopped complaining and did what everyone was telling her to do, started having sex with him again (on the libido-killing, vagina-drying medication). ![]() she’s barely relevant in her own case study. So this seriously is just ‘a man insisted on piv sex that could kill his wife, she refused, so he had her drugged’. Choosing not to have a child because you don’t like the risks when you have previously been diagnosed with depression is also not some kind of health problem Choosing not to have a child because you don’t like the risks isn’t a fucking disorder. It says irrelevant and false things like ‘all women (should) have children’ and ‘if women talk to women it causes problems’ but it actually never clarifies that this woman has what we would call tokophobia. So it’s absolutely impossible to buy that this “helped” her one of the meds she was given reduces sex drive and function even in people who are having happy sex lives what it says is that she didn’t want to have sex with her husband because she didn’t want to get pregnant once she realised the risks, so she was given more and more drugs until she started having sex with him again. there’s literally no indication in this example that she actually wanted to have a child once she had done a tiny bit of research into it. Normally we define tokophobia or any phobia as being afraid of something you otherwise want to do. Women not wanting to be incubators is seen as a disorder worth treating with psychiatric drugs. Just another case of psychiatry pathologising nonconformity to sex roles.
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