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Sybil seems to be different. What people are not aware of is that she suffers from a rare mental disorder, often referred to as multiple personality disorder. Sybil was not born with this mental disease either. Throughout Sybil s childhood she was abused by her mother. The actions of her mother have made an impact on who Sybil is today. Sybil knows she has suffered from blackouts. During these blackouts another alter, a â€Å"different person,† is presented. Each alter may have distinct traits, personal history, and ways of thinking about and relating to his or her surroundings. An alter may even be of a different gender, have his or her own name, and have distinct mannerisms or preferences. These alters remain present even after the trauma is long past. In fact, they often don t occur until adulthood. Dissociation may also be described as a mental escape. Alters are created as a way of escaping the painful memories through denial, they are also created to help them not harm t he individual (Dissociative Identity Disorder† Cleveland). The alters often make the person believe those traumatic incidents happened to another person. These alters may also try to â€Å"kill off each other† in belief that they are unaffected because it is not â€Å"their† body. A person will go through a series of steps to help cope with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). A person with DID experiences the process of trauma, diagnosis, and treatment. Trauma at a young age, mainly in developing stages, is theShow MoreRelatedHamlet Theme Of Death1278 Words   |  6 Pages(A analysis of the theme of death in Hamlet, Acts 3-5) â€Å"The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will,† (Shakespeare 144 Act 3 scene 1 lines 86-87). The question that still plagues humanity today. What is after death, where do we go? 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