In 1995, women with a history of depressive symptoms reported twice the rate of subsequent infertility, and this past spring another study confirmed it: significantly more women with current or past depression struggle with infertility, and most of these women experienced their first depressive episodes prior to their diagnoses of infertility.

The good news is that when women with depression are treated, they show a 60 percent viable pregnancy rate within six months - as opposed to only 24 percent when the depression went untreated.