Sickened

The True Story of a Lost Childhood

Julie Gregory

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Bantam
01 December 2004

Autobiography: general; Child abuse

A powerful and heartbreakingly moving memoir of a survivor of the world's most lethal and best hidden forms of child abuse.

A young girl is perched on yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just 12 years old, she's tall, skinny and weak. It's

4 pm and she hasn't eaten anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this'. She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually x-rayed, medicated and operated on - in the vain pursuit of an illness that was all in her mother's mind. Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is the world's most dangerous form of child abuse, in which the caretaker - almost always the mother - invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves attention from medical professionals. Most MBP children die. Julie Gregory not only found the courage to survive, but to save others.

By: Julie Gregory
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 130mm, Width: 208mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 246g
ISBN: 9781863254823
ISBN 10: 186325482X
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 01 December 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JULIE GREGORY was born in 1969 and grew up in southern Ohio. Her internationally bestselling memoir Sickened is an account of the M nchhausen syndrome by proxy abuse she suffered as a child. She is now an expert writer and spokesperson on M nchhausen by proxy and an advocate in MBP cases.

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Sickened

The True Story of a Lost Childhood

Julie Gregory

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