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I will be giving you information on the movie that was based on a real life event called “Sybil”, This movie is a good example of what child hood abuse can do to a child, also how awful child abuse is. I am a very big advocate for child abuse, this story really hits home for me, my brothers, sisters, and I were abused, so we know first hand how awful and scarring it can be.

The movie Sybil is about a young women who has multiple personalities and has had a very hard and rough life. She grew up with her mother beating and abusing her, throughout her child hood life. The movie is based on the real life story of a child who’s mother abused almost everyday of her life, and as a result of that, it caused her to have a very bad personality issues, the information that I have found, counted 16 different types of personalities, they all arouse from different stages in her life that she had gone through.

I know that the movie is not a hundred percent facts, but it is the idea of what child abuse can do to person. The main setting of the movie is usually taking while Sybil was usually in one of her psychologists office, explaining what all happened while she was a child, then every now and then one of her personalities come out, then the psychologist (Dr.wilbur), finally started helping her out of her personalities.

Here is some information that I found on imbd.com, It was the horrific child abuse Sybil's psychotic mother inflicted on her, along with the failure of her father to rescue her from it that caused these personalities. Each one embodied feelings and emotions the 'real' Sybil could not cope with. The waking Sybil was deprived of all these emotions, of anger and aggressiveness just to name a few. And was therefore a rather dreary figure. She was unaware of her other personas; while they were in 'control' of the body, Sybil suffered blackouts and did not remember the episodes. It was only the intervention of Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, a psychoanalyst, which...