I am grateful to memoirists of all subject matters for the courage it takes to share in this way. And just like reading Sebold’s description of her rape in Lucky, these were not easy reads, and they were not intended to be. Up until this point I hadn’t encountered memoirs detailing such horrific physical, emotional, and sexual (in the case of Rabbit) abuse. This book, like the one I just reviewed, Lucky, and like the one I might review next, When Rabbit Howls, was primarily an educational venture. I read Sickened and When Rabbit Howls back to back, and thus plummeted headlong into the realms of extreme child abuse. But other than that, I knew nothing about the story Julie Gregory was about to share with me. Makes Gone Girl look like Little House on the Prairie). I realized a few pages in that I had encountered something resembling MBP in Gillian Flynn’s novel Sharp Objects (very good, and very disturbing. I had no idea what to expect from this memoir, because I had no idea what “Munchausen by proxy” meant.
Sickened took me into a world about which I knew nothing.
The above elegantly summarizes the Gregory’s long and difficult recovery from her Munchausen by proxy (MBP) childhood.
If someone shapes your mind into a distortion you have to find something that can give you the straight answer. And beliefs are erected by those who raise us. Sickened: The true story of a lost childhood/ The memoir of a Munchausen by proxy childhood by Julie Gregory I.
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