Sybil

     Sybil is a movie which bring the story of a shy and reserved substitute school teacher. she seem to be normal in the initial scenes of the movie then I realised that there is something is wrong in the scene where she broke down in front of her students. Later in the movie when Sybil started to see a psychiatrists Dr Cornelia Wilbur, Sybil the admits that she experiences blackouts. The movie then leads to the scenes where Sybil being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. There were 13 personalities in Sybil that arises in different timings.

   Sybil seem to be experiencing DID because the trauma she had experienced when she was young. Her mother who was also a mental health patient who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. She tortured little Sybil. Sybil had experienced a painful chilhood where she was abused by her mother. This could be the main reason behind the occurrence of the disorder on Sybil. Sybil tend to change her posture and behavior when she posses different personality. Her body language totally changes into a different manner to portray different personality. There are also personalities disruptive and seem to be dangerous because the tend to break windows, injure herself and attempts to suicide. There was also a part where Sybil has a personality of on infant where the psychiatrist herself could not carry conversation with.

     Another aspect that I have found was the boundary issues between a client and a therapist. In the movie it was controversial to show that a therapist to have a very close relationship where she hugs the client, she shares her seat with her client sand even brought her client Sybil to her home. This actually shows that it is less professional to have such relationship with clients who a therapist dealing with. Besides that, in a scene Dr Wilbur also says that Sybil had brought her an experience where she could fell her motherhood. This seem to be unprofessional to have a very close relationship with a client where it could affect the professional boundaries.

    There were also scenes that in the movie that shows that Sybil was hypnotised to identify what had happened in her childhood and so on. Here, I felt that there might be some issues in trusting the repressed and recovered memories. There might be some incident that could not happened or might be added or some fake memories that could be shared by the client. Therefore, analysing the fact that being share dare seem to be important to prevent some unwanted misunderstandings.
     Although, the story plays a an important role the actress who acted as Sybil performed outstandingly because it is not easy to act in a role that carries such weight to the story and the ability to carry the characters as real as possible shows her dedication and talent very well. This is a movie that could give a person ideas about the actual challenges and the things that a person with DID could experiance and the reasons that could trigger such disorders.