Hi Julie, how does your business help the community? She was her father's keeper, and always would be.We had the good fortune of connecting with Julie Gregory and we’ve shared our conversation below. Confused, lost and damaged from years spent as the only confidante of her paranoid schizophrenic father, but determined to survive, Julie was finally able to come to terms with her father. When it later turned up, she would wonder how the thief broke back in to return it.
Julie left home before 18 but her father's schizophrenic behaviour bled over into her own life: if she couldn't find the hairdryer, she would check for signs of entry. Julie became the target of his ever more paranoid delusions. Julie was made to testify against her father, and when he was released he became convinced she had turned on him. When Julie was 14 her father attempted suicide and was placed in a locked psychiatric ward.
He fell ever deeper into paranoid delusions that his daughter was sexually active, prostituting herself, sneaking out at night to sleep with black men. The isolation that came with the family's move to the country saw the wacky, unorthodox elements of her father's denied mental illness take a back seat to paranoid fear.Her father would tell her any boy who befriended her was just pretend-acting until he could rape her, and Julie came to fear all boys and men. But as she neared 10, a darker side emerged: her father could switch instantly from squeaking out a tear as they harmonized to "Hey Jude" in the car, to pulling his loaded pistol on the black man that asked for change in the McDonald's drive-thru as they waited. Read more and pitied him when he broke down in suicidal desperation. She adored her father for his exuberance.
More friend than parent, he would belt her into their tiny car and they'd punch through yellow lights, scarf down candy bars before supper and had their own way of making fun of Julie's mother in a secret language of eye-rolling. As a child Julie was close to her father. From the international No.1 bestselling author of Sickened. A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father, who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life, gluttonous personality and found logical explanations for the most bizarre ways of thinking. Used hardback in good to very good condition. Description for My father's keeper Hardcover.
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