When you are experiencing infertility, it can seem like everyone around you has a rosy, fairy-tale ending with their healthy pregnancy and baby—even if they had difficulty conceiving at first. You wonder, “how will my story end? How will I recount this chapter of my life?”

Navigating the “trying-to-conceive” (aka TTC) world can be a crash-course in foreign-sounding words and a litany of abbreviations. We’re here to help break it down and make it understandable.

It’s important that we think proactively about what our bodies go through during stressful times. If our hormones are imbalanced, we will be even more susceptible to anxiety and depression. So let’s take a look at how hormone imbalances can impact anxiety and depression and what we can do about it.