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Gregory, Julie. Sickened. Random House of Books. 2003.

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Moved to Arizona at 3. Her grandma claimed she was sick. Julie didn't understand what she meant so she went to the ER 5 times but was fine. Julie and her family ended up moving back to Ohio to escape her grandma.

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Julie's mother gave her pills for her headaches but only made her symptoms worse. Her mother made her sick with pills.

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Julie's little brother, Danny, was born.

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Julie's mother fed her poorly including sugary cereal, cake batter, and matches. As a result of a poor diet and not getting enough to eat, Julie was often lightheaded and faint from low energy.

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Julie's father soon noticed how Julie's mom was abusing her but ignored it. He was a Vietnam veteran with schizophrenia, PTSD, and Agent Orange poisoning.

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Julie's mom took her to the doctor's so often that she missed school. The doctors ignored everything wrong with Julie other than malnutrition. One of the doctors said Julie had food allergies which Julie's mom used as an excuse to not give Julie certain foods.

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To make more money from the government, Julie's parents took in disabled veterans and foster kids. They got abused by getting hit with fly swatters and getting guns pointed to their heads while they begged and cried not to get shot. Despite her parents getting paid, Julie's parents didn't really provide for her.

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Julie's mother insisted she had a heart defect which was a lie, when she really didn't. So at 10 years old they took her in for surgery even though Julie tried telling the doctors the truth. The doctors found out she didn't really have a heart defect so they didn't do the surgery.

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Julie's little brother, Danny, was favorited. Julie's mother tried bringing Danny to the doctor too. Julie's father beat her mother saying there was nothing wrong with him, trying to protect Danny from being taken to the doctor.

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Julie's mother eventually convinced the doctors to preform an unnecessary surgery on Julie when she was in high school. The surgery was to correct a deviated septum that she did not have.

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Her father abused her by body shaming her. He told Julie that she was unattractive and too skinny. One example was when her father said that she would get mocked and laughed at if she wore a bikini. Julie then became insecure because of the things her father said.

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When she was 16, Julie tried running away to a group home but, she ended up getting manipulated by her parents into returning back home after only a few days of being gone.

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When Julie finally gets her first job, she was excited. She was mostly thrilled about being to buy her own food because she was never well fed by her parents.

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When Julie was sleeping over at a friend's house, her house "caught on fire" and it burned to the ground. They lost their family dog in the fire. It was later discovered by her mother that the father actually had set their house on fire.

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After their house burned down, Julie's parents separated. Her father moved out and her mother left to Mexico. Julie and her little brother Danny were left alone to live together to raise and support themselves.

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When Julie turned 21 she moved back to Ohio, where she was born, and bought her own apartment.

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Julie started taking college classes, without a high school diploma, when she was 24. College led to a deep depression where she couldn't eat or sleep.

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When she was took a psychology class in college, she learned about Münchausen by Proxy. This explained her mother and grandmother's not normal behavior and abusive way of raising her; she realized that her childhood was far from ordinary.

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Julie paid a visit to her mother in Montana where she learned her mother got remarried and had 2 adoptive children.

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Julie terrifyingly discovered that the adoptive daughter of her mother was going through the same abuse that she was going through. Julie calls social services on her mom to save the little girl, regardless of risking the loss of her relationship with her mother.