What happpens when you're pregnant, but without actually being pregnant? These are hysterical pregnancies, and they are totally real. Find out more about these odd phantom foetuses in today's episode.



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References & Further Reading



Hysterical Pregnancies

https://www.psychdb.com/somatic/pseudocyesis

https://www.cureus.com/articles/40598-a-rare-case-of-pseudocyesis-in-a-patient-with-bipolar-disorder

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738334/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674939/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361851/#__ffn_sectitle

https://www.britannica.com/science/false-pregnancy

https://www.britannica.com/science/hydatidiform-mole

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894469/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4133423/

https://americanpregnancy.org/getting-pregnant/infertility/false-pregnancy/



Somatic Symptom Disorders

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/somatic-symptom-disorder/what-is-somatic-symptom-disorder

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990557/

https://www.psychdb.com/somatic/dsm-5/z-other-specified