Julie Gregory
Julie Gregory', (born May 16, 1969 in Columbus, Ohio), is the author ofSickened'', an autobiographical account of the Munchausen by proxy (MBP) abuse she suffered as a child. She also acts as an advocate for children suffering MBP abuse.
History
According to Sickened, 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. At home, her mother allegedly 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. According to Gregory, her mother even became upset when one doctor wouldn't perform Open Heart surgery on her daughter.
In addition, Sickened recounts physical and emotional abuse inflicted by Gregory's father. Julie Gregory was also subject to other kinds of abuse. Her mother would also fabricate stories about her and her brother, Danny to their father. Her stories would be totally imagined and in them she would make out herself as a helpless victim of two tearaway children who swore at her.
Excerpt from book Sickened
"okay, Daaann, let me telllll you what these bastards did. And then you are really going to want to take your belt off and beat the living crap out of them." I pinch a hunk of the couch, Danny hops from leg to leg. "They were out in your garage today, all right?" Dad perks up. "All right?" She says again, to get his nod. "And when I walked in they were playing in your toolbox." He lifts his head. Hiis toolbox. She gains. "I told 'em, Kids, you know what your father says about playing with his tools, now get out of there. And so you know what they said Dan?" He wants to know. What did these [...] kids say when they were playing with the tools they knew better than to be messing with? "They said, and I kid you not, Dan, they said," her mouth twists, "Scrreeew him, fuuuccck him, then they said he's crazy he's to stupid to notice! and you know what they did? They took your new ratchet and threw it in the pond, while I was screaming after them begging them to stop!"
Apparently, episodes like this were followed with serious abuse from the father who believed Mrs. Gregory over his children. He beat his daughter across the head with his belt and forced her to eat old used tissues. Therefore the Munchausen by proxy was not the only form of abuse to which Julie was subjected.
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