A 19-year-old girl brought with behavioural changes such as claiming she is pregnant, stitching clothes for unborn baby, using special diets and walking carefully in order to avoid any harm to the baby. On examination, she found repeating her claim that she is pregnant in spite of having regular cycles, she can sense her baby moving inside the abdomen, taking stethoscope from a table and asking permission to hear her babies heart beat herself (she had seen her cousin doctor doing so to her patients). Euthymic, PMA adequate. Talk relevant and coherent.
No AH. Tell her abdomen is little distended and showing the same to the examiner. Past history revealed she once absconded from her school with her female friend two years back and went for counselling, at that time nothing unusual found except mother found a diary in which she has written lots of notes in a 'code' language. Mother is…
