Julie Gregory
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Julie Gregory, (born May 16, 1969 in Columbus, Ohio), is the author of Sickened, an autobiographical account of the Munchausen by proxy (MBP) abuse she suffered as a child.
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 deliberately fed Gregory a nutritionally inadequate diet (based on foods a doctor had said Gregory shouldn't have), administered prescription medicine erraticly, sometimes in double doses, and filled her days with strenuous physical labor. Gregory's mother even gets upset when one doctor won't perform open heart surgery on her daughter.
In addition, Sickened recounts physical and emotional abuse inflicted by Gregory's father.
Julie Gregory is a writer and spokesperson on Munchausen by Proxy and an advocate for children suffering MPB abuse.
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