Infertility Is The Result Of Brain Work

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

So, we found out that the correctness of the reproductive system is largely, if not completely, determined by the brain. It is the cerebral cortex that decides whether motherhood is or not. But how does she make that decision? How does she weigh and determine the external and internal situation?

Imagine that every second millions of impulses (from outside and from within) enter the brain that need to be processed and systematized. The brain works on the principle of a dominant, that is, when only one focus of arousal prevails, and all the rest are inhibited or completely suppressed, without having a chance to be realized in behavior.

The dominant is the mood for a certain behavior, for a certain perception of reality, and it is often realized in the context of common sense adopted in social society. For example, when I have everything - a car, an apartment, a summer residence - and I feel bad.

So, the so-called gestational dominant, or the dominant of motherhood, is distinguished. She is responsible for creating an appropriate focus of excitation in the cerebral cortex, to ensure the direction of all body reactions to create conditions for conception, preservation of pregnancy, full-fledged gestation and childbirth.

The suppression of this dominant leads to infertility, for example, of unknown genesis, to impaired embryo implantation, impaired development, and termination of pregnancy. In "mild" forms, this manifests itself through severe toxicosis in late pregnancy and complications in childbirth.

What can suppress the gestational dominant? Another, even more significant, is the dominant of anxiety.

Anxiety is a signal of persistent trouble in the environment (and this is not about social and financial well-being):

• Stress at home, insecure family and family relationships.
• Stress at work, constant tension and a feeling of standing out.
• An unsafe position in society, in the country, in the city.
• Stress associated with moving to a new place of residence.
• Emotional exhaustion due to recent physical or mental trauma.
• The general state of insecurity and fear of pregnancy, childbirth and further motherhood.
• Irrational fears of death during childbirth, the birth of a sick child, loss of a partner, loss of oneself as a person.
• Painful memories of childhood experiences, parenting relationships, and other family traumas.
• Past abortions, unsuccessful pregnancies.
• The idealization of the role of the mother, when motherhood becomes literally an unbearable psychological test, the onset of which is unconsciously delayed.
• Something else, purely individual.

The dominant of anxiety is stronger than the maternal dominant, this is biologically determined. In nature, the female will never give birth to offspring in a stressful situation. And since the reproductive system is not vital, without it the body can fully exist, its temporary blockage is not critical.

And then the work should go not to increase the dominant of motherhood, through social meanings about parenting (how wonderful it is, it is also important), because motherhood is not able to compete with anxiety, but to reduce the dominant of anxiety. To work in this area.

That is, not the search for the feminine principle, yoga, dancing with a tambourine, relaxation and beautiful music, pictures about pregnancy and babies, but to immerse yourself in the darkest sides of your soul, to meet your own fears and needs. This is what psychotherapy does.