![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood recounts allegations of physical and emotional abuse inflicted by Gregory's father, as well as other types of abuse. They thought Julie was making up stories for attention, and had her go to "imagination counseling" to try and tame the crazy stories of her parents. ![]() When Julie finally realized what her mom was doing to her, she tried telling some people about what her mom did, but no one listened. Many MBP children die, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mothers madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant. Also, in the book Gregory mentions being told that matches were suckers to eat. According to Gregory, her mother even became upset when one doctor wouldn't perform open heart surgery on her daughter. At home, her mother fed Gregory a nutritionally inadequate diet (based on foods a doctor had said Gregory shouldn't have), administered prescription medicine erratically, sometimes in double doses, and filled her days with strenuous physical labor. A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father. ![]() According to Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, Gregory's mother frequently took her to various doctors, coaching her to act sicker than she was and exaggerating her symptoms, and demanding increasingly invasive procedures to diagnose the girl's imaginary illnesses. My Fathers Keeper van Julie Gregory (boek, ebook, ISBN 9780007285549). ![]()
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