Authors :
Shreya Bharti
Volume/Issue :
Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 3 - March
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26mar093
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Abstract :
Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, particularly in IVF, are often accompanied by significant
psychological challenges. The existing literature has largely focused on anxiety, depression, and stress among the patients,
but it has given less attention towards emotional numbness and emotional blunting as a distinct psychological response. This
narrative review aims to explore the phenomenon of emotional numbness in IVF patients, examining how coping strategies
may gradually evolve into psychological shutdown when sustained over time. This review further discusses therapeutic
implications, emphasizing the need for humanistic and IVF-specific counselling approaches that validate emotional
numbness within the discourse on infertility-related mental health, this review seeks to contribute to a nuanced and
compassionate understanding of emotional experiences of individual undergoing IVF treatment.
Keywords :
Emotional Numbness, In-Vitro Fertility (IVF), Psychological Shutdown, Coping Mechanism, Emotional Blunting, Humanistic Approach, Infertility-Related Distress.
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Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, particularly in IVF, are often accompanied by significant
psychological challenges. The existing literature has largely focused on anxiety, depression, and stress among the patients,
but it has given less attention towards emotional numbness and emotional blunting as a distinct psychological response. This
narrative review aims to explore the phenomenon of emotional numbness in IVF patients, examining how coping strategies
may gradually evolve into psychological shutdown when sustained over time. This review further discusses therapeutic
implications, emphasizing the need for humanistic and IVF-specific counselling approaches that validate emotional
numbness within the discourse on infertility-related mental health, this review seeks to contribute to a nuanced and
compassionate understanding of emotional experiences of individual undergoing IVF treatment.
Keywords :
Emotional Numbness, In-Vitro Fertility (IVF), Psychological Shutdown, Coping Mechanism, Emotional Blunting, Humanistic Approach, Infertility-Related Distress.
