But it didn't really address that either. The specifics of her case from a professional mental healthcare worker wasn't explored. This was a single voice from a person is arguably not in control of all of her mental faculties, and can't even admit that she has a problem. So what's to learn?

Because there is no information about phantom pregnancies in this article, other than anecdotes. It serves neither to inform or enlighten. It's just one woman's story, who I doubt even the author believes. Had she pitched her story to bigger publications, I'm sure they wouldn't have taken the bait. So what is the…

They also didn't seem to get consent from anyone with a stable mental status. Besides John I guess, but I don't think he's a close enough relation to say her statements could be released.

Your pesky ethics dilemma is totally justified and normal. This article doesn't take a clinical approach to mental illness, it takes a sensational approach. It's trivializing, really and you're not the only one offended by it.

For all of you just saying she's crazy, should be committed or whatever, please realize that she is experiencing actual pregnancy symptoms. There was a great-aunt on my dad's side who apparently went through something like this back in the '40s. She wasn't pregnant and it was conclusively proven she'd never been…

This is just my opinion but I find the publication of this essay to be a bit premature. You really ought to have waited until she had passed 10 months or even a year, and continued to speak with her and present the way she dealt with the eventual non-birth of the non-baby. The way it's written, this essay seems…

I'm probably going to regret asking this, but how exactly are mental illness or paying for healthcare white people problems?

I'm not totally comfortable with this article.

I'm still trying to figure out why this article is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. I'm sure there's some weird co-dependency thing going on with the enabling "John". I don't know what you call it, medically, but I'm calling it a "folie a deux".

While I'm as much a voyeur into these kind of stories as anyone else, I feel like this article is pretty exploitative. It's clear that this poor woman is not pregnant and has some serious mental health issues, not related at all to this "phantom pregnancy." I just don't see the point of this, other than informing that…

Amusingly enough, in small rural farming communities that have been known to have good groundwater, Coke likes to move their plants there. What happens over the next few years is fascinating. Basically, the Coke bottling plant begins to use up a huge portion of the groundwater faster than it replenishes, leading to…

Not an MRA, but a martial artist here. My objection to the groin kick is that it is pretty easy to defend against. If you get the chance, by all means go for it. But, don't be overly dependant on it or assume that you will get that chance.

You collect data, then reach conclusions, not the other way around.

You know how if you watch an episode of Star Trek or whatever and there's a redshirt in a dangerous situation? They die and you aren't surprised at all and maybe even roll your eyes and say "ugh saw that coming a mile away". It would be nice for women to not be redshirts, so that countless stories don't start with…

This is the first time in years that I've actively wanted to link someone to goatse. Thank you for giving me back a piece of my childhood.

Can you be more specific? Like, what exactly do they say? "Hey you in the skirt? Way to set back the women's movement! Buy some pants!" I mean, I'm really trying to imagine how this goes down as I've never seen anything like it. I've seen a man eat a whole head of cauliflower on the bus, while crying silently. I've…

There were kids who bullied me in 7th grade. It was fairly severe. They called me satan, and made crosses in shop and followed me around with them. One of them even hit me in the face. I was a weird and different kind of kid, I wrote a lot of poetry and defended abortion clinics on saturday mornings and did musical…