Multiple Personalities

During chapter 12, I read about personality. I learned the different theories on how our personality is influenced. Whether it is influenced internally, environmentally, observed, or reinforced. I also learned about different personality traits people have if they are introverts, extraverts, open to experience, conscientious, ect. While reading about these different personalities, I kept thinking about this movie I watched called Sybil directed by Daniel Petrie. This movie is a true story of a woman named Sybil, who had a very traumatic childhood and she developed 13 different personalities.
Multiple Personality Disorder (also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder), is a severe dissociation which causes a lack of connection in someone’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Someone with Multiple Personality Disorder has two or more personalities, each of which has a different way of viewing the world. Each personality might also have a different way of reacting to different stimuli. For Sybil, she would black out and wouldn’t remember how she got to certain places. She would also act shy and speak softly at times and she was more outgoing and energetic at others. She developed Multiple Personality because she tried to protect herself from psychological pain that was too much for certain personalities to handle.