Miscarriages Quadruple Self-Harm Thoughts, Reveals Study
A new study has revealed that having a miscarriage quadruples the risk of having self-harming thoughts. is still a topic that has a surrounding it. Women feel like they can’t open up about their losses, and this leads to a lack of support. Women who have had a miscarriage can feel incredibly alone, and studies are being done to see what can be done to help suffering women.
Miscarriage is common, and the more it is spoken about, the more women will feel like their feelings are valid and that they are not alone.
Until then, women are continuing to feel unheard, and this can turn into damaging thoughts. According to , a new study is suggesting that miscarriage not only increases the chances of future losses but that it quadruples the risk of suicide.
The research was conducted by , a pregnancy organization, and they wanted to examine the physical and emotional “cost” of miscarriage. They found that with every pregnancy loss, chances of future losses increased.
After a woman has had three , she is four times more likely to repeat the experience than someone who has never lost a pregnancy loss before.
It also found that the that a miscarriage has on a person quadrupled their risk of self-harm, and that was an increased risk for both women and men. This confirms that miscarriages can have a significant impact on men, and not just the women who carried the baby.
The study looked at data from over nine individual studies that involved more than 4.6 million pregnancies. This study was conducted to urge the governments to make some changes.
They want governments to start looking at this data, improve their collection of it, and start offering more care to couples who have suffered pregnancy loss. This organization is specifically calling for a change in the UK right now, because a woman in the UK is only receiving support and testing after the third miscarriage, and they believe it needs to happen after the first to be proactive.
While this call to action is for the UK government, there are no reasons why society cannot look into their local supports for couples who have had a miscarriage, because pregnancy loss does not discriminate.
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