Triggers During Treatment
IN THEIR OWN
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"There was a nurse in the room trying to help me through the excruciating pain...I know she was trying to help, but she actually said 'scream as loud as you want, nobody will hear you.' It's like exactly what a molester would say, a rapist. I can't believe she said that."
-IVF Patient
Hear
One patient's account of her struggle to get through her appointment due to triggers during her treatment.
Interview with a patient who felt re-traumatized by the lack of choice and agency in her treatment
Interview with Jessica DeMaio, LCSW Discusses the what is happening to the patient who feels re-traumatized
Listen
As an IVF patient explains what it's like to experience anxiety due to trauma during her Assisted reproductive Technology (A.R.T) Treatment
VOICES
He was in front of me instructing me to lay down; he never asked me if it was ok if he did the [trans-vaginal]ultrasound. He assumed that it was ok and honestly I felt that I did not have a choice in the matter, that the choice had been taken from me."
-IVF Patient on the experience of being examined by a male doctor she did not know.
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A short video depicting two women's accounts of their experience
