What are the emotional consequences associated with infertility and impotence?

What are the emotional consequences associated with infertility and impotence?

Philip Werthman, FACS (Director, Center for Male Reproductive Medicine) gives expert video advice on: Is male fertility affected by stress?; What are the emotional consequences associated with infertility and impotence? and more...

There are a variety of emotional responses that men can have to either being diagnosed as infertile or being impotent or having inability to perform when needed, due to such things as the <a href="http://www.videojug.com/interview/andropause-male-menopause-2">male menopause</a>. Those go from anywhere of denial to feelings of low self worth to feelings of not being what we consider a man. Or not being able to satisfy or please his partner or not being able to give his partner a child. It can lead to depression; it can lead to problems with relationships, a strain on a marriage, a strain on a sexual relationship. So, all these things really affect a man's sense of well-being, a man's sense of worth, the happiness of a relationship, they can have profound effects. But the good thing about this is that many of these problems are easily treated and men don't have to suffer silently with any of these conditions.