“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. 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. 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. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days. 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.” TruthMental IllnessDenialTherapyDependenceDissociative Identity DisorderPsychotherapyMultiple Personality DisorderTruth And LiesPretenceMultiple PersonalitiesDenial Of RealitySybilRuseNot PretendingFaking NormalNot Fake Book:Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.” PoetryMental IllnessDismissal Book:Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely” MadeKnowingGreaterHappenedTerribleMental HealthIllnessTerrorMental IllnessPanicNot KnowingTormentWarehouse Book:Sybil Source: Sybil