Julie Gregory

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Julie Joell 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.

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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.