Sybil is a girl that dreamed to be a school teacher but dealing with her traumatic and abusive past which her mother cut her vagina with a knife unable to overcome and handle this stress Sybil dissociate into few sub types that are all children. As you can see as the movie progress Sybil showed how her sub types switched in order for her to faced her life and traumatic past.
The movie started when Sybil as a kindergarten teacher brings her students to the park and in the park she saw the women in white hair and she started to dissociate and end up in the water where everyone saw her. The beginning has left audience confused which later only we realized her mother that abused her during her childhood having the same hair as well so she was afraid in the park and started to dissociate to protect herself. But why she 'woke up' on the pond? If you remembered closely her mother tied her to the piano without letting her to the toilet when she need to pee so she peed on the floor so she remembered the feeling where she ended up in the pond.
When Sybil that she needed the money to seek psychiatrist so he asked her father but after her father rejected her she acted violently and storms out. Soon she wanted to commit suicide to deal with this problem Mary came out and Vicky called Dr Wilbur to help Sybil and even Vicky even confess to Dr Wilbur about the presence of 'others'.
Sybil also depicted this illustration accurately and easily observable on this point in how she needs to meet Dr. Wilbur and Richard. Sybil (the host) is not very comfortable or good in meeting stranger especially guy that liked her and asked her out during night so to deal with this issue and Veronica that is outgoing and keep Sybil's music for Sybil she then go out with Richard.
In the midst of treatment Peggy and Vicky are mostly seen in seeing Dr Wilbur in therapy session to faced the issue instead of Sybil. Finally, Dr. Wilbur confronts Sybil about her problem, and convinces her to undergo hypnosis so she could discover her other personalities. Things seem to be going thoroughly well, until she meets the identity of her mother, upon which she screams and soon after dissociates into a baby. However, she recovers, and the next time she undergoes hypnosis, she recalls an incident when her mother drags up her up to the roof of her barn by her hands, and then locks her in a cabinet.
When Sybil wakes up, she tells Dr. Wilbur that she was making the whole thing up, and that she doesn’t really have multiple identities. She appears to not act negatively towards certain cues, and is a lot more lucid about her own past. However, Dr. Wilbur theorizes that all the identities have “blanded together” to keep her from uncovering what is underneath. She decides visits Sybil’s old town and speaks to the doctor that resided over Sybil when she was a child. There, she discovers that Sybil’s mother had paranoid schizophrenia, and the doctor admits that he simply ignored the vast and peculiar nature of injuries that Sybil had received.
When Dr. Wilbur returns and confronts Sybil about the purple crayon drew on the barn wood she was locked to proved Sybil's word, she admits to having tried to deceive her before. They undergo their last session of hypnosis, where Sybil recalls her mother having sexually abused her by cutting her vagina with a knife. She awakens to rage and bitterness, which Dr. Wilbur tells her to accept. The movie ends with all the different identities of Sybil walking towards her and embracing.
As with typical cases of DID, Sybil’s disorder spawned from extreme childhood abuse and trauma. Her violent, psychotic mother and neglectful father leaves such a scar in her past that her mind tore itself into several different pieces to isolate the pain. The portrayal of DID as a psychological coping method; Dr. Wilbur mentions many times that Sybil’s different “friends” are there to protect and take action when she herself cannot. Moreover, the movie does a great job of depicting the symptoms of DID. Sybil’s auditory hallucinations, which the audience can hear, pervade throughout the majority of the film. Furthermore, she is extremely anxious about her amnesia and loss of time – “Once, I went to sleep, and when I woke up, I was two years older”. Sybil also has several negative reactions towards unexplainable phobias, including the color purple, induced by the crayon that she had with her when her mother locked her in the barn.
Finally, the film incorporates several brief traumatic flashbacks by shifting from the third person to Sybil’s view help set the troubled and ominous tone of the entire film.
The interaction between Dr. Wilbur and Sybil’s different identities presents a fairly accurate portrayal of the diagnosis and treatment of DID. The initial screening tests that Dr. Wilbur performs encourage the young girl’s mind to dissociate; she does this by presenting her with a myriad of questions, pictures, and scents that Sybil might have associated with trauma. In the psycho-therapeutic sessions, she confronts Sybil’s old experiences with questions such as “Why can’t you talk about what happened in the green kitchen?”. Finally, she employs the use of clinical hypnosis to aid Sybil in unlocking her past and her repressed anger and anxiety.
All in all, Sybil is an emotionally charged and highly powerful film that accurately portrays the suffering and eventual treatment of DID. It’s critical acclaim and public recognition gave a face and a story to DID, and shortly after the release of the film diagnoses for the disorder exploded. Whether or not these diagnoses were spurred mainly by media frenzy is still a matter of controversy, but it is undeniable that Sybil played an important role in helping DID victims gain the respect and empathy of the public.
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