Could infertility depression lead to murder and suicide?
Do you know the Food Network chef Juan-Carlos Cruz? Well… the chef was arrested few days ago for alleged attempt to arrange the murder of his wife.
It was reported that Cruz’s wife Jennifer Campbell was suffering from severe depression after years of unsuccessful attempts of trying to conceive a child.
And here comes the scary part: Jennifer had spoken to her friends about the desire to end her life. Okay… and then Cruz comes in… supposedly he was planning, after arranging for the murder of his wife, to commit suicide.
Pardon my language, but WTF? What kind of story is this?
They were definitely not ready to have children. There are options for people who cannot have children, and even if the artificial insemination or whatever fails, there is an option of adoption a child. And most adopted children (adoptees sounds so … formal?) live happy lives… but not with these two… if what the police says is true, these two are lunatics…. Okay, you can’t get severe depression if you are infertile – the underlying cause must be somewhere else – the infertility is just a trigger (I am not saying that infertility isn’t justified reason to be depressed – it is – I a agree – I would be the happiest if we all could get pregnant with a click of a finger… but hey if we don’t what will we do? Kill ourselves?)
A woman like this (and a man that supports this) is not ready to have children…
Okay… as I said… if what the police is saying is true…
But if it’s not … I do apologize for my outburst. I wish Cruz, who was taken into custody last week, all the best. I truly hope everything will work out for him…
As the homeless man, who claims that Cruz had offered him money to kill Campbell, is not the most reliable person to trust, don’t you think?
Something sticks here, and I hope the police will solve the problem as it is hard enough to lose high school sweetheart, not to mention being charged of attempted murder and soliciting murder.
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It must be nice to live in La-la land where everything is rosy all the time and everyone can afford to adopt as many children as they want to.
As for miscarriages causing depression so bad as to lead to delusional thoughts, do some research! Of course it happens! When a woman’s hormones are so out of whack the mental disturbances that can occur are not only directly related but earth-shattering. It doesn’t make them evil. The medical profession is still trying to catch up with itself in this area. Until more help is available for the women that are suffering through this, and until the physical and mental aspects of it are treated together, these kinds of things will continue to happen. You cannot just walk away from a patient and expect that things will be ok.
I don’t think that you are qualified to speculate on this situation. You better pray that it never happens to you.
Who are you to determine who is or isn’t qualified to have a child? You clearly have no compassion and no idea what you’re talking about and shouldn’t be giving your ludicrous opinions. Infertility can, and often does, lead to severe depression. I’ve struggled for 6 years and had one ectopic pregnancy, which caused me to loose one tube. I lost my job because the depression is so severe and have no desire to continue living. Granted, I don’t act on those feelings but you have no right to judge someone who does. You clearly have no clue about the the emotional impacts of infertility and don’t know what it means to truly suffer.
Wow – I know I’m really late to this, but I just had to reply. You have obviously never struggled with infertility, and you’ve obviously never adopted a child. Adopting a child is not an easy fix to the minor little problem of not being able to have your own. I’m considering adoption, but the process is by no means easy. Google “failed adoption” for proof.
Women experiencing infertility have the same rate of depression as people who are going through cancer treatment. Infertility can and does cause severe depression. I have been through 6 rounds of IUI, 1 round of IVF, 2 miscarriages, and an ectopic pregnancy that resulted in me losing my tube and almost killed me. If you think that you could go through all that and NOT be depressed, you’re delusional. You should get down on your knees and thank God that you have never known this type of pain, and then shut up about things that you know nothing about.
Oh really? Well that is really odd because I tried to kill myself when I was going through ivf and now people seem to think Im a fabulous mother