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Sybil Diagnosis

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Multiple Personality Disorder is a serious condition and is not easy to treat, it isn’t a disease that you just take medicine and it cures away. A character in the movie Sybil, is unfortunately diagnosed with this disease. In the movie it shows how Sybil the main character takes on life with this particular illness on a day to day basis.
Sybil, a substitute teacher in New York is very confused and frightened when she breaks a window in her apartment with her bare hand. When she was at the hospital being taken care of for her injury Dr. Wilbur came into the picture. Once Wilbur discovered information about Sybil’s life she found out that she was raised in a severely strict household with a father who was a Christian minister and her mother …show more content…

On Christmas Eve Sybil had dinner with Richard and his son, also she had agreed to let Richard stay the night. Richard told her that he would hold close but throughout the night, Sybil had a nightmare and ended up climbing up her bookcase which had awoken Richard. At that moment Sybil confessed she was seeing Dr.Wilbur, so Richard’s immediate thought was to call the doctor, in the meantime Sybil gotten to the roof of the apartment and stood on the ledge of the rooftop. Once Richard had gotten up to the roof he convinced her not to jump, and once she agreed Richard instantly grabbed her. While holding onto Sybil Dr.Wilbur arrived, Sybil told Richard she does not want to see him anymore because she is ill even though she is falling in love with him. In that moment that is when Dr.Wilbur knew she had major investigating to do and Sybil knew she needed to get well. In this scene of the movie it show Sybil’s symptoms very serious, her constant suicide attempts, her changes in behavior, depression, panic attacks, sleep problems, and severe headaches. These problems Sybil had encountered affected her on a daily lifestyle. She could not go anywhere without having a panic attack or changing characters in the middle of a conversation with Richard or

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