She is an avid customer of Sushi and Diet Pepsi. Doubtfire, Murder By Death, The Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Running With Scissors are among her all-time favorite films. Mallrats, Adaptation, Life As A House, Jurassic Park, American Beauty, Jay And Silent Bob, Chasing Amy, Office Space, Napoleon Dynamite, American History X, Spirited Away, Training Day, Mrs. Julie loves watching Csi, Mythbusters, Monk, Frasier, Fear Factor, Golden Girls, Law And Order, Sex And The City, Dirty Jobs, The Golden Girls, The First 48 and Investigative Reports. Coldplay, Radiohead, Weezer, U2, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Taking Back Sunday, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, My Morning Jacket, The Gorillaz, The Eels, Mark Lanegan, Mark Isham, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens Of The Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal are among her favorite bands.
She is a 2004 graduate of College Of Charleston. The author used writing to cope with her destructive childhood and the outcome was a beautifully crafted novel.Julie Gregory lives in Charleston, SC.
Overall, Sickened was an excellent, but saddening, read. Being a memoir, it’s fitting that it’s in first person. Another thing that allows readers to feel Julie’s emotion, is the solemn, first person tone it’s written in. Conversations in the story can be matched to authentic documents from real doctors. She’s able to convey eighteen years of anger, depression, disgust, and illness, in just 243 pages.īeing a true story, the book includes medical documents and photographs to throw the reader deeper into the story. Authors Website: Books Authored By Julie Gregory Sickened Julie Gregory Paperback In Stock £14. Julie is a graduate student in psychiatry at Sheffield University. Julie Gregory is a talented writer and gives incredible details. She is now an expert writer and spokesperson on Munchausen by proxy and an advocate in MBP cases. It isn’t until Julie is a teenager when it occurs to her what her mother had done.Ī situation unimaginable for most, the author is able to allow readers to picture themselves in her shoes down to the moment where she holds a pistol to her abusive father’s head. Her mother would tell her that she couldn’t attend school and needed to take a plethora of medications, yet she never got better. Growing up in an abusive household in an isolated backcountry home, Julie was an unnoticed victim of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome. Sickened by Julie Gregory depicts the shocking childhood of a naive girl whose mother tricks her daughter into believing she’s ill for almost two decades.
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