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As astonishing, powerful and moving as A Child Called ‘It’, Sickened is Julie Gregory’s Pulitzer-nominated account of the abuse she suffered under a mother afflicted with the rare mental disorder Munchausen by Proxy.....
The victim of a mother’s sick mind
The most astonishing, powerful and moving memoir since A Child Called ‘It’, Sickened is Julie Gregory’s Pulitzer-nominated account of the abuse she suffered under a mother afflicted with the rare mental disorder Munchausen by Proxy.
From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated and operated on in the vain pursuit of an illness that existed only in her mother’s mind. Sickened lifts the lid on Munchausen by Proxy (MBP), the world’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, as we learn how Julie survived and escaped the orbit of her mother’s madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy woman.
Punctuated with Julie’s actual medical records, Sickened re-creates a bizarre and painful upbringing, complete with war veterans, wild shopping sprees and gun-waving rows. It exposes the naivete of Julie’s doctors, teachers and friends and reveals her family’s twisted bonds of love and terror – including the love that made a child sacrifice herself in an attempt to win her mother’s happiness.
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