However, it was an eye opener how the offending parent draws the affected child into complacency. I did learn a lot about Munchausen by Proxy I knew some about this mental illness going in. The ending seemed rushed and unfinished I do understand this is a memoir and isn’t a complete story, but I wish the lessons and themes had been brought together a bit better at the end. The author jumps around in time a bit, so at points it was hard to figure out how old she was during certain incidents. This is not a comfortable and happy read it is a disturbing read.
This memoir touches on a lot more than just the main topic of Munchausen by Proxy there are many other forms of abuse in here. There is a lot of excellent description in here the copies of medical records and photos of the author really drove home that this was real and added a lot to this memoir. This was an intriguing read and I applaud the author for trying to raise awareness of Munchausen by Proxy and how unrecognized it is as a form of child abuse. It is an unforgettable story, unforgettably told.” Sickened takes us to new places in the human heart and spirit. 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. But when it did, it would strike like lightning.
The realization that the sickness lay in her mother, not in herself, would not come to Julie until adulthood. It also exposes the twisted bonds of terror and love that roped Julie’s family together-including the love that made a child willing to sacrifice herself to win her mother’s happiness. 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. Sickened is a remarkable memoir that speaks in an original and distinctive Midwestern voice, rising to indelible scenes in prose of scathing beauty and fierce humor.
Many MBP children die, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother’s madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman. Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is the world’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, in which the caretaker-almost always the mother-invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves the attention of medical professionals. “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.
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