![]() ![]() I would come home so hungry and I just wouldn't get to eat. I used to go to school without breakfast and mum wouldn’t fill out the forms so I couldn’t get lunch at school. The other way she kept me sick was by withholding food from me. ![]() To hear the full version in Julie’s own voice, just click the play button below: ![]() You’re reading an extract from the full story. And that’s how she was making me sick early on. What I didn't understand was that she was actually researching what medications to not combine, and then she was seeking out doctors to get those medications for me. Mum would get one medication from one doctor and then another medication from a different one. My mum and I were really enmeshed I really didn't have a lot of independence from her, and from a really early age she would take me to doctors and tell them I had something wrong with me. My family consisted of my mum, my dad, and my little brother Danny, who was about seven years younger than I was, and we lived on a dead-end dirt road in a double-wide trailer. It was just this wild and woolly lush part of the country and I walked around barefoot with my animals. We didn't really have any surrounding family or neighbours. ![]() I loved her very much, but as a child you have this almost innate sense of wanting to be loved by a parent, and you just do anything you can to try get those little crumbs of love whenever you can get them. ![]()
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