Interdependency of the Domains

So today is Saturday and yes I am a geek, I was working on homework and doing some reading of the online lectures.  I was reading over the three domains that psychologists study: physical, cognitive, and social and emotional.  It is no wonder that psychologists study these three domains because they are linked together in just about every aspect of individuals.  Each domain depends upon the other two for guidance. 

I read the article Fertility Clinics Begin to Address Mental Health by Laurie Tarkan (October 8, 2002 New York Times) and really had some strong emotions personally about the subject.  I myself have struggled with infertility and had been through them emotional side that was expressed in the article.  When we (my husband and I) started trying to have a child I was thrilled that I could become a mommy.  Yet after months of trying and nothing I became increasingly downhearted.  After a year we decided to seek help.  We both went into this know that we could not afford the expensive treatments or adoption.  The doctor had a plan laid out that we would have to do some testing but that there were a few things we could try that would not empty our bank account.  So we developed a plan.  A month later I found out I was pregnant.  I was over joyed and excited.  The doctor scheduled a sonogram to assure that everything was okay.  That appointment did not go as I had hoped.  He could not find a heart beat and told us that I would more than likely miscarriage within a week.   I was totally devastated.  He scheduled another sonogram in two weeks just to make sure and if I have not miscarried and there was still no heart beat they would have to surgically end the pregnancy.  Emotionally I was done.  I could not eat and I went through the next two weeks like a zombie.  I blamed myself because it was my body that was the culprit here.  My husband tried to get me to think positively but I just could not think about anything other than I had finally gotten here and now it was going to be taken from me again.  Two weeks arrived and I drug myself back to the doctor.  I was extremely nervous and to the doctors surprise there was the heart beat!  I was extremely relieved and could not wait to get out and tell everyone.  After I finished reading about how fertility clinics are now offering counseling to their patients I think that is a wonderful way to help their patients cope with these emotions.  I think emotions run the show of the three domains.  We are emotionally driven people.  Most of what we do comes from emotions.  When we are babies we need to be held, cuddled, loved.  When we don't get our needs meet we cry and are unhappy.  I was getting ready to sign off and my daughter, who is three, comes up to me and says "I want to make you happy".  It is difficult not to cry thinking that she already has.