Sybil Essay
Personal response
The Life of Sybil
By Yasmin Brown
After watching the movie Sybil, I was extremely intrigued by it, I found it to be very fascinating and amazing. For a person to have 16 different personalities is just jaw dropping. On some websites I read about how Sybil and Dr.Wilbur were being criticized and that Dr.Wilbur diagnosed Sybil with Multiple Personality disease so that she could get a book deal from it. I don’t really now why anyone would actually do that but just so that I was more informed I decide to research the disease a bit more. Multiple Personality disorder also known as Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a disorder that describes a condition in which a single person displays multiple identities or personalities (known as alter egos or), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. The diagnosis requires that at least two personalities routinely take control of the individual's behaviour with an associated memory loss that goes beyond normal forgetfulness; in addition, symptoms cannot be due to drug use or medical condition. In Sybil’s case this disease was brought on by her extremely sad and troubled childhood. Sybil’s mother was extremely mean towards Sybil she would push her and even go as far as breaking her larynx. Many people have theorized that severe sexual, physical or physiological trauma in a childhood is a trait from DID, I think that what happened with Sybil was definitely caused by this, even in the movie Dr.Wilbur says that all of Sybil’s personalities were because of the traumatic relationship she had with her mother when she was a child and growing up, and because her father did not support or try to help her.I have heard of people with multiple personalities but to be honest, the most I had heard of before seeing this movie was two, maybe three at the most, I have never ever heard of sixteen personalities and it makes me wonder if it was all real I mean how can someone have
The Life of Sybil
By Yasmin Brown
After watching the movie Sybil, I was extremely intrigued by it, I found it to be very fascinating and amazing. For a person to have 16 different personalities is just jaw dropping. On some websites I read about how Sybil and Dr.Wilbur were being criticized and that Dr.Wilbur diagnosed Sybil with Multiple Personality disease so that she could get a book deal from it. I don’t really now why anyone would actually do that but just so that I was more informed I decide to research the disease a bit more. Multiple Personality disorder also known as Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a disorder that describes a condition in which a single person displays multiple identities or personalities (known as alter egos or), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. The diagnosis requires that at least two personalities routinely take control of the individual's behaviour with an associated memory loss that goes beyond normal forgetfulness; in addition, symptoms cannot be due to drug use or medical condition. In Sybil’s case this disease was brought on by her extremely sad and troubled childhood. Sybil’s mother was extremely mean towards Sybil she would push her and even go as far as breaking her larynx. Many people have theorized that severe sexual, physical or physiological trauma in a childhood is a trait from DID, I think that what happened with Sybil was definitely caused by this, even in the movie Dr.Wilbur says that all of Sybil’s personalities were because of the traumatic relationship she had with her mother when she was a child and growing up, and because her father did not support or try to help her.I have heard of people with multiple personalities but to be honest, the most I had heard of before seeing this movie was two, maybe three at the most, I have never ever heard of sixteen personalities and it makes me wonder if it was all real I mean how can someone have