[Hydrophobic1212]

Okay, so... This is really, really odd, but it just came as a thought to me.

I am OCD, and one of the things I really obsess over, is pregnancy. I'm not sure why, but I can only imagine it's because I know I do want to be a mom. Not yet, though. I know I'm not in a good place (or really old enough) that I should be having a child yet. But I really want to be a mom, and whenever I see babies, I get all... Sad and wish I was able to be at that point in my life.

Well, around the same time this started, I started getting sick a lot for no reason. We went to the doctor and we couldn't find anything wrong with me. So we thought it was my medication, but my psychiatrist says it's not that.

So, the thought I just had... The brain is a very powerful thing, and I know that men when their wives are pregnant, sometimes have the whole "sympathy pregnancy" thing where they get some of the symptoms.

Is it possible that my sickness is due to being like... Mock morning sickness? Like, my brain obsesses over pregnancy so much, that it's making my body feel like I'm actually pregnant?

Like I said, it's a weird thought, but I know the brain can do some wacky things... So I just thought I would ask...

[Bipolar mom]

Hmm.. It's not an odd question.

I wanted a baby more than anything, it took me six months to get pregnant and every month I would get sick, have weird cravings, then I would get my period and be devastated. So it may be possible.

[Confusedinomicon]

I think it may be.

I have an intense fear of getting pregnant. Like SUPER intense. To the point that I have spent weeks crying because I don't keep track of my period and I think that I'm going to have kids but haven't had sex. (It is very illogical) It took me like four years to stop believing I was going to have a kid even when nothing has happened. I didn't get mock-sickness, but I did get intense anxiety. I think you may be onto something, though.

[Hydrophobic1212]

Thanks! I'm glad to know it's not such an odd thought... It really interested me when I thought of it. It made sense. And now that you mention it, I do get weird cravings too. I do know the body can simulate pregnancy, when you're not really pregnant... So maybe that's what's going on. I know I'm really not, because I've never, you know... Done the "deed". So it's impossible, but I thought it was interesting.