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. This child will not ruin her plans.įrom 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. She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. She’s about to suggest open heart surgery on her child to ‘get to the bottom of this’. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. It's 4 pm and she hasn't eaten anything all day. Just 12 years old, she’s tall, skinny and weak. Sickened is the story of one girl's fight for survival.A powerful and heartbreakingly moving memoir of a survivor of the world’s most lethal and best hidden forms of child abuse.Ī young girl is perched on yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. 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. It's four o'clock, and she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day.
'An appalling, fascinating story, expertly told' - Sunday Times'It blazes with truth and anger - a true story of survival and achievement against the odds' - Sunday Telegraph'Extraordinary - shocking and moving' - Woman & Home'Horrifying but compelling' - Cosmopolitan'Gripping right from the start and I struggled to put it down' - ***** Reader review'A brilliant read' - ***** Reader review'Beautifully written' - ***** Reader review'Unputdownable' - ***** Reader review*******************************************************************************************THE TRUE STORY OF A LOST CHILDHOODA young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school.īarely twelve, she's tall, skinny, and weak.
Readers of Educated, The Glass Castle and The Memory Palace will want to read this. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind: Munchausen by Proxy, the world's most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse.
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