It sold millions of copies and brought the little-known disorder into Americans’ cultural awareness. The book was published in 1973 and became an instant success. Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.Sybil, a book by Flora Rheta Schreiber, tells the story of Sybil Dorsett (Shirley Mason), who suffers from multiple personality disorder because of childhood trauma. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. “It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.”
Well, it would be easier if it were put on. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.
Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. “After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days.
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