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Living with Multi Personality Disorder
After watching the movie “Sybil” a couple of times, I was able to grasp a better understanding of what a person who suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder goes through. In my Abnormal Psychology class we touched basis on what Multiple Personality Disorder is and what signs to look for, but “Sybil” gave me a vivid idea of how someone lives on a day to day basis with this disorder. This movie also allowed me to see how a clinical psychologist performs an initial assessment which is also part of my abnormal psychology class. This movie “Sybil” made it very clear that Sybil suffered from MPD.
Multiple Personality Disorder also called Disassociative Identity disorder can be defined as a rare disassociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and altering personalities. (Myers, 564) Sybil was in her mid twenties when the problems from her disorder begin to take a huge toll on her. She was emotionally, physically and sexually abused by her mother during her childhood. Somehow Sybil pushed away all of those memories of her childhood into another place. This back fired on her because she later developed MPD. Luckily, Sybil came across a doctor who noticed little things when some routine tests were performed. She then decided to perform an assessment. An assessment in Psychological terms can be defined as the collecting of relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion and also to determine how and why a person is...
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... that person’s life and can come and go at any given moment. This is why it is necessary to have the medical treatment and help of a committed doctor so that that person can be most successful at becoming healthy. This disorder is unfortunate and very difficult to carry on a normal “everyday” life style. Sybil was in and out of work little things such as, noises would bring her disorder out. She was unable to maintain a teaching position which was what she had always wanted to do until she had learned about her disorder and figured out how to cope with it thanks to the seven years of treatment that her doctor devoted to her.
Sybil was a great example of Multiple Personality Disorder or Disassociative Identity Disorder. Watching this movie not only gave me a better understanding of what this disorder is but how difficult ones life must be for the person who suffers from it. I can only hope that more doctors will be as helpful and dedicated as Sybil’s doctor in the movie. According to my abnormal Psychology class and the movie “Sybil” I learned that by understanding and knowing a patient’s disorder that is the first step to treating and helping them.
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