The hysterical pregnancy
Symptoms
Abdominal bloating, nausea, breast pain and delayed periods. In short, the classic symptoms of a pregnancy, which among other things increase with the passage of time. It is a pity that, when you undergo the test, it turns out that unfortunately there is no child.
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The causes
Hysterical pregnancy is considered a psychosomatic illness, or a state of psychological distress that ends up having repercussions on the body. At the base there is, as you can imagine, a great desire to become a mother. In some cases it becomes a real "fixation", also stemming from a culture and a society that still have some difficulty in considering motherhood as a choice , but they still see it as a natural and obvious path for any woman, and these are psychological pressures that not everyone can handle.
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The cure
Given the nature of this pathology, the only treatment seems to be psychological. However, the human factor is also not negligible: having the right people around, able to give the necessary emotional and affective support is fundamental to get out of it.
Historical curiosities
In 1500 Mary Tudor, Queen of England, was also affected, who announced her pregnancy only to be forced to deny it, after discovering that she was not pregnant. The first to use the term "hysterical pregnancy" to identify this disorder was the scholar John Mason Good, in 1923.
