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Primary & Secondary Tokophobia
Primary tokophobia is a fear of death in childbirth, disgust / dread of the process, and goes to great lengths NOT to become pregnant. Often sufferers will show poor perceptions and distortions of pregnancy and childbirth. This can come from their younger days when other’s (mother) passed incorrect or bad experiences onto them, or the woman has experienced other trauma in the past.
Secondary tokophobia is due to a previous experience of traumatic birth, poor obstetric practice or medical attention, previous post natal depression, and many other gross concerns and anxieties. Poor expectations of their behaviour during labour, feeling ‘out of control’, revivification of distressing memories perhaps months later, can cause further psychological concerns.
Post traumatic distress disorder cannot be ruled out from their previous birthing experience/s, because females with secondary tokophobia may have suffered physically and psychologically, and are preparing for the same thing to happen again. Of course not all women experience these problems, however, some females are more vulnerable than others, with different levels of pain threshold and emotional tolerances, everyone is different.
Both these quite different problems can be resolved, and the outcome is a positive one should the women obtain assistance from an experienced clinician.