#fertilethoughts

[drnishamangal]

Infertility and depression: Symptoms, treatment, and support

Infertility can indeed take a significant toll on mental health, often leading to feelings of sadness, anxiety, frustration, and depression. Here's an overview of symptoms, treatment options, and support resources for individuals experiencing infertility-related depression:

Symptoms of Depression due to Infertility:

Persistent sadness or feelings of emptiness: Feeling down most of the time, even when engaged in activities that used to bring joy.

Loss of interest or pleasure in activities: Finding it difficult to enjoy hobbies, socializing, or even intimacy with a partner.

Changes in appetite or weight: Significant changes in eating habits, either eating too much or too little, leading to weight fluctuations.

Sleep disturbances: Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleeping excessively.

Fatigue or loss of energy: Feeling constantly tired, even after resting.

Feelings of worthlessness or guilt: Blaming oneself or feeling inadequate due to infertility issues.

Difficulty concentrating or making decisions: Cognitive functions may be impaired due to overwhelming thoughts about infertility.

Thoughts of death or suicide: In severe cases, depression can lead to suicidal ideation.

Treatment Options:

Therapy: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), supportive therapy, or couples counseling can help individuals and couples cope with the emotional challenges of infertility. Therapy can provide a safe space to express feelings, learn coping strategies, and improve communication within the relationship.

Medication: In cases of severe depression, medication such as antidepressants may be prescribed by a psychiatrist or mental health professional. These medications can help alleviate symptoms and improve overall mood.

Support Groups: Joining support groups for individuals experiencing infertility can provide a sense of community, validation, and understanding. Sharing experiences with others who are going through similar challenges can be incredibly comforting and empowering.

Lifestyle Changes: Engaging in regular exercise, maintaining a balanced diet, practicing relaxation techniques such as mindfulness or yoga, and prioritizing self-care can all contribute to improving mood and overall well-being.

Support Resources:

Resolve: The National Infertility Association: Resolve offers support groups, educational resources, and advocacy for individuals and couples struggling with infertility.

American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM): ASRM provides information on infertility treatments, support resources, and guidelines for navigating the emotional aspects of infertility.

Online Forums and Communities: Websites like FertilityIQ, FertileThoughts, and Reddit's r/infertility provide online forums where individuals can connect with others, share experiences, and seek support anonymously.

Fertility Clinics: Many fertility clinics offer counseling services or can refer patients to mental health professionals specializing in infertility-related issues.

It's essential for individuals experiencing infertility-related depression to seek help and support from mental health professionals, as well as from their partners, family members, and friends. Building a strong support network and accessing appropriate treatment can make a significant difference in coping with the emotional challenges of infertility.

[tanyacole]

With open studios now over normal painty programme shall resume. The question is ~ do I finish one of the wips in suspended animation on my wall, or pick up one of those sparkling fresh banga blank canvases winking at me!? 😍 The struggle is real! 🙄🤷‍♀️😆 . . . #selfportrait #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #blankcanvascalls #create #fertilethoughts #dream #finishstuff #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #expressiveart #womenempowered #whimsical #original #figurativeart #artcollectors #collectors #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci89KPYvaz3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nrip]

Case study on the voice of the patient for the Pharma industry

Pharmaceutical companies are extending their Voice of the Patient projects to include social media: comments on web forums, surveys, Twitter, and more.

The goal of the proof of concept ordered by one particular pharmaceutical company in Spain was to: ” Collect and analyze the voice of the patient, both quantitatively and qualitatively, from the channels where it is expressed”, including social networks like web forums, Facebook, Twitter, and other systems.

For the pharma industry, it is essential to listen and understand the feedback that their current and potential customers communicate through various means and touchpoints.

Web forums, for instance, gather millions of posts, and function as a meeting point for patients where support, experiences, and wisdom are shared with peers, family members, and friends.

  These sources are so huge (up to 5 million posts in a single forum such as FertileThoughts)  that only automatic processing facilitates its analysis with the required quality, response time, and homogeneity.

The solution was hoped to automatically convert the insights obtained into concrete recommendations, taking into account each of the Organization’s communication and sales channels.

  The goals of the Proof of Concept

-Identify and prioritize the needs and desires of patients. -Detect adverse drug reactions beyond the usual drug safety systems. -Evaluate new concepts, ideas, and solutions. -Customize products, services, accessories, and features to meet the needs of patients. -Prioritize developments.

Area of practice: FERTILITY TREATMENTS Country: SPAIN

The project step by step

0. Choosing the sources

After some research on the possible public sources for the Voice of the Patient in Spain in the area of fertility treatments, the company decided to focus on a single web forum: La infertilidad (https://www.lainfertilidad.com/foros/index.php).

It currently holds over 820 K  posts divided into 38 sub-forums.

  1. Crawling

Automated software crawls all the pages within the forum to create an index of data. In this case, all of the posts were grabbed and transferred into an Elasticsearch database.

2. Semantic platform

Each post is processed using our semantic technology.

2.1. Classification

The classification API categorizes the texts in a hierarchical classification or taxonomy.

The classification models in MeaningCloud’s Text Classification API combine a statistical model with classification rules.

Thus, a simple classification model was developed and trained. It was made up of 10 categories. Namely:

Dislike

Like

Expectations

Recommendations

Advice against

Maintenance

Drug-sharing

Help

Benchmarking

Posology and use

2.2. Sentiment Analysis

Our Sentiment Analysis API is able to perform a detailed, multilingual sentiment analysis on information from various sources.

The output being one of the following tags: N+ (strongly negative), N (negative), NEU (neutral sentiment, neither good nor bad, or in cases where positive polarities compensate for the negative ones), P (positive), P+ (strongly positive) and NONE (no sentiment).

In addition to the local and global polarity, the API uses advanced natural language processing techniques to detect the polarity associated with both the entities and the concepts present within the text.

2.3. Named entities

This API extracts the most relevant information from a text, such as the people, places, organizations, and products mentioned, known as named entities. These entities, concepts, and values provide a semantic overview of a document, enabling the development of intelligent applications to process content in several languages.

We also add our own dictionaries to extend MeaningCloud’s capabilities of tagging entities and concepts and in turn, adapt them to a domain or to your application’s requirements. We incorporate the names of drugs, active ingredients or diseases to semantically analyze health-related texts.

Our company makes regular developments focused on the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry: approximately 80% of our revenue comes from that sector. There are hundreds of thousands of domain-specific semantic resources integrated into our system, each of them intended to detect a different type of named entity. They include MedDRA, UMLS, CIMA, ATC, and IDC.

3. Structured content

Once the semantic platform has automatically processed and analyzed textual content, by transforming “raw” data into structured usable information, the content is input back to the Elasticsearch database.

Any extra structured data that we may get insightful information from is also uploaded to Elasticsearch. . For instance, we have added a table listing a range of clinics and their corresponding details: Province, Region, Locality, Public (Yes/No), and a table of brands and products

4. Insightful Dashboard

The dashboard included the following sections:

4.1. Relevance of clinics

The map below is the first interface for the dashboard. It shows the location of the clinics that have been mentioned by the patients. The map shows further details when clicking on each spot.

4.2. Product-related insights

This second interface below gathers the mentions of brands and their products. It has sections for stock alerts, adverse effects, and drug sharing alerts.

4.3. Drug sharing alerts

Whenever patients try to buy or sell prescription drugs the dashboard shows the quotations.

4.4. Adverse effects

The system monitors adverse events and understands their impact.

[tanyacole]

Now. Don’t laugh too much, but I decided it was time. Time to pull a Frida Kahlo and insert myself into one of my paintings! Here be the artist at current age in a self portrait (in progress) with tired & droopy upper eyelids, 90’s overly thinned eyebrows, wrinkles and moving parts jawline 😂 I am too honest and am thinking my gray hair will have to feature too...incoming. . . . . #selfportrait #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthchange #create #fertilethoughts #dream #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #expressiveart #womenempowered #whimsical #original #figurativeart #artcollectors #collectors #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccjj2ewhoim/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tanyacole]

A more empowered and gentler future for women is getting painted into ‘Birthing a Matriarchal World’ pregnant belly. And the first hand holding all future women is coming into existence too. This piece is not aimed at religion, rather a hopeful nod for our future young girls; where women and minority groups such as Indigenous cultures across the world can feel safe in the feminine, intuitive softness of being connected to nature and the divinity within them. Without fear of a dominating patriarchy controlling, beating, raping, molesting, torturing, dislocating them from their land or killing them. 👧👣🧕🏾👩🏼‍🎓👩🏿‍⚕️👩🏻‍🔬👸🏽🤰🏿🤱🏼🌏🖌👩🏽‍🎨🎨 #selfportrait #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthchange #create #fertilethoughts #dream #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #birth #world #matriarchalworld #expressiveart #womenempowered #whimsical #original #figurativeart #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf-RRRWhxQE/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tanyacole]

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Saying my goodbyes to this cuddling duo. Their collector is coming to pick them up this afternoon. I am reassured by knowing how much they will be loved in their new home 😍👧🐰🐇🎨 #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthyourdream #timewaitsfornoone #create #fertilethoughts #dream #birth #butterfly #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #rabbit # #bunny #spiritanimal #art #limitededition #prints #gicleeprints #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

Throwback to this post >> I felt inspired to write this, after chatting with one of my collectors over in the US. She recently bought (and received) a Limited Edition Print of my 'Birth Your Dream ~ Time Waits For No One' painting. Here is what she said in our convo this morning... "I bought this piece to encourage me to keep making my art and to celebrate new beginnings. ❤" I can think of no better validation or motivation for why I paint and why I viscerally HAVE to keep painting...than THIS! ^^^ ❤❤ 😊👧🐰🐇🎨 #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthyourdream #timewaitsfornoone #create #fertilethoughts #dream #birth #butterfly #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #rabbit # #bunny #spiritanimal #art #limitededition #prints #gicleeprints #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq0snM5lM4k/?igshid=16p6rkr8cxpav

[tanyacole]

I have decided that this piece will be made available to collectors as my walls are too full ~ as much as I love, love this piece! 'Birth Your Dream ~ Time Waits For No One' Original Acrylic on Canvas 18" x 36" © 2017 Tanya Cole Here's how it could look in your space... particularly if that's how your living looks... then it will look exactly like this in your room 😜 DM me if you would like to add this piece to your collection! 😊👧🐰🐇💚💛💜🎨 #originalart #artforsale #birthyourdream #timewaitsfornoone #create #fertilethoughts #dream #birth #butterfly #metamorphosis #soulexpression #portraits #painter #rabbit # #bunny #spiritanimal #originalart #art #artist #expressiveart #whimsical #artcollectors #collectorsofart #collectors #collectorsoninstagram #artfido #interiordesigners #artists #artistsoninstagram #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

Throwback to this post >> I felt inspired to write this, after chatting with one of my collectors over in the US. She recently bought (and received) a Limited Edition Print of my 'Birth Your Dream ~ Time Waits For No One' painting. Here is what she said in our convo this morning... "I bought this piece to encourage me to keep making my art and to celebrate new beginnings. ❤" I can think of no better validation or motivation for why I paint and why I viscerally HAVE to keep painting...than THIS! ^^^ ❤❤ 😊👧🐰🐇🎨 #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthyourdream #timewaitsfornoone #create #fertilethoughts #dream #birth #butterfly #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #rabbit # #bunny #spiritanimal #art #limitededition #prints #gicleeprints #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq0snM5lM4k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3z4sya6s554t

[tanyacole]

Bunnies & Butterflies! ‘Birth Your Dream ~ Time Waits For No One’ Arty Tote Bag is now available! 😍👧🐰🐇🎨 #totebag inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthyourdream #timewaitsfornoone #create #fertilethoughts #dream #birth #butterfly #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #rabbit # #bunny #spiritanimal #art #gicleeprints #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #original #figurativeart #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

Lots more shading to be done on her face but loving the background now! “A more empowered and gentler future for women is getting painted into ‘Birthing a Matriarchal World’ pregnant belly. And the first hand holding all future women is coming into existence too. This piece is not aimed at religion, rather a hopeful nod for our future young girls; where women and minority groups such as Indigenous cultures across the world can feel safe in the feminine, intuitive softness of being connected to nature and the divinity within them. Without fear of a dominating patriarchy controlling, beating, raping, molesting, torturing, dislocating them from their land or killing them.” 👧👣🧕🏾👩🏼‍🎓👩🏿‍⚕️👩🏻‍🔬👸🏽🤰🏿🤱🏼🌏🖌👩🏽‍🎨🎨 #selfportrait #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthchange #create #fertilethoughts #dream #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #birth #world #matriarchalworld #expressiveart #womenempowered #whimsical #original #figurativeart #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

A little more work done on ‘Birthing a Matriarchal World’. Now to detail her hands... 👧👣🧕🏾👩🏼‍🎓👩🏿‍⚕️👩🏻‍🔬👸🏽🤰🏿🤱🏼🌏🖌👩🏽‍🎨🎨 #selfportrait #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthchange #create #fertilethoughts #dream #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #birth #world #matriarchalworld #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #original #figurativeart #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

The last thing I see before drifting off to sleep and the first thing when I wake up. They guide my dreams and my days. I was wondering why I have taken so long to 'finish' this painting... it wanted to stay and guide me a while...😊👧👭🐥💚💛💜🎨 #wip #paintingsthatspeak #nightguides #whiteowlwisdom ##create #fertilethoughts #dream #soulexpression #portraits #painter #commune #owl #spiritanimal #originalart #art #artist #expressiveart #whimsical #artcollectors #collectors #artfido #interiordesigners #artists #artistsoninstagram #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

One of the most difficult portraits I have ever worked on...a self portrait. Being so tired probably hasn’t helped matters! (I am having a brief break from painting my Indigenous Australians series) This painting in progress is going to be called ‘Birthing a Matriarchal World’ 👧👣🧕🏾👩🏼‍🎓👩🏿‍⚕️👩🏻‍🔬👸🏽🤰🏿🤱🏼🌏🖌👩🏽‍🎨🎨 #selfportrait #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthchange #create #fertilethoughts #dream #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #birth #world #matriarchalworld #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #original #figurativeart #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

I felt inspired to write this, after chatting with one of my collectors over in the US. She recently bought (and received) a Limited Edition Print of my 'Birth Your Dream ~ Time Waits For No One' painting. Here is what she said in our convo this morning... "I bought this piece to encourage me to keep making my art and to celebrate new beginnings. ❤" I can think of no better validation or motivation for why I paint and why I viscerally HAVE to keep painting...than THIS! ^^^ ❤❤ 😊👧🐰🐇🎨 #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthyourdream #timewaitsfornoone #create #fertilethoughts #dream #birth #butterfly #metamorphosis #portraits #painter #rabbit # #bunny #spiritanimal #art #limitededition #prints #gicleeprints #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #artcollectors #collectors #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom

[tanyacole]

I felt inspired to write this, after chatting with one of my collectors over in the US. She recently bought (and received) a Limited Edition Print of my 'Birth Your Dream ~ Time Waits For No One' painting. Here is what she said in our convo this morning... "I bought this piece to encourage me to keep making my art and to celebrate new beginnings. ❤" I can think of no better validation or motivation for why I paint and why I viscerally HAVE to keep painting...than THIS! ^^^ ❤❤ 😊👧🐰🐇💚💛💜🎨 #inspire #paintingsthatspeak #artinspires #birthyourdream #timewaitsfornoone #create #fertilethoughts #dream #birth #butterfly #metamorphosis #soulexpression #portraits #painter #rabbit # #bunny #spiritanimal #originalart #art #limitededition #prints #gicleeprints #expressiveart #artlicensers #whimsical #artcollectors #collectors #artfido #interiordesigners #artists #ig_art #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom