Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553803077 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. Through her painful metamorphosis, she discovered the courage to save her own life—and, ultimately, the life of the girl her mother had found to replace her. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. It is an unforgettable story, unforgettably told.. 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. The realization that the sickness lay in her mother, not in herself, would not come to Julie until adulthood. Punctuated with Julie's actual medical records, it re-creates the bizarre cocoon of her family's isolated double-wide trailer, their wild shopping sprees and gun-waving confrontations, the astonishing naïveté of medical professionals and social workers. But when it did, it would strike like lightning. It also exposes t
22 pages of b&w white photos. . Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. MBP, a psychological disorder in which caretakers, usually themselves the victims of traumatic abuse, "make an otherwise healthy child sick" as a way of gaining attention and approval. Set in towns of rural obscurity, Gregory's memoir movingly describes how, as a "sick" child, she believed that her constant feelings of exhaustion and lethargy were caused by some illness in herself rather than by her mother's complicated and abusive rituals. Gregory's impressive and disturbi
WOW alwaysthecritic Once I started reading this book I couldn't put it down. The story is very compelling in itself, but Julie Gregory is also an excellent and occasionally hilarious writer. It did remind me of Augusten Burrough's work in the way she described the people ar. KBM said Haunting. If you are reading this review, please purchase a copy of this book and read it. This story needs to be heard. And, it's really not just Julie's story anymore. If you are on this page, than you most likely already know about Munchausen by proxy syndrome.. Sickened Dinah Beres This was a very interesting book. I wish the author had included a little more detail of how she pulled herself together, how she discovered fruit and vegtables (vice fixing chocolate cake batter for breakfast) I would also have appreciated knowing how s