Sybil MSA

1.Biographical Information

S.D, is a very simple woman who, due to her love for painting, teaches in an art school (in
another version of the movie, she is an art student). Since she does not have any siblings, her
father is the only relative she has since her mother died. She lives in a small New York
apartment on her own wherein she would rarely have any visitors visit.
2. Health History

(1976 Film) “I’ve always been like this. Always. And I used to think everybody else was like
this. That they would just naturally wake up and be someplace else or a whole lot older or
wearing another dress. Once, I woke up, and I was 2 years older. And… it was very hard for me
to get through college.”

(2007 Film) “People say I do some things I have not done. Sometimes I’ll meet people who I’ve
never seen before who say they know me. And sometimes I’ll find clothes that I don’t remember
buying in my closet. And the painting… sometimes I come home and it’s already finished, but in
a whole know different style.”

As a child S.D. saw a pediatrician for what he calls childhood aches and pains these
included: Fractured Clavicle, Tonsillectomy, torn ligaments in her right shoulder, palm of right
hand burned on stove, Fractured Larynx, beans stuck up her nose, gas inhalation. S.D. last went
to the doctor for a bladder complaint, he found Vaginal scaring and tears. The current symptoms
S.D. and her other personalities experience: Memory Lapses (Amnesia), Time Loss,
Seeing/having things they don't remember buying or doing, Depressive Tendencies, Anxiety
Hallucinations, Suicidal thoughts. S.D. has exhibited these symptoms since she was young, her
mother and father described it as “her moodiness”. S.D. also exhibits signs of depression and
anxiety. Client has no known previous illnesses.
Her grandmother had passed away when she was a child, and then her mother years after,
leaving her father as the only living member left in her family. S.D. was physically abused by her
mother as a child partially due to her mother's Paranoid Schizophrenia. S.D. was physically and
emotionally abused by her mother. S.D.’s mother also sexually abused her with different objects,
including knifes, button hooks, and an enema bottle. She and her other personality starts a
relationship with R., but after being disturbed in her sleep and avert into one of her personalities,
he moves away with his son.
3. MSE

S.D. (combined with all of her other personalities) properly grooms and cleans herself
without the need of assistance of others. She displays signs of depression and anxiety throughout
the course of her sessions with Dr. Wilbur. She used to sit in an upright position, but would
eventually change to a slouched position due to the mental fatigue she feels after being
unconsciously switched in and out of control of her psyche. She has scars on certain parts of her
body, both from the recent cuts on her wrists and old childhood burns. Other than that, she has
no physical deformities. S.D. often loses track of time or slips from reality, she calls them her
blackouts but this is proven to be untrue as it is actually individual personalities which speak in
her place, depending on the situation or question she (as S.D.) is placed in. She shows one
personality at a time before one of her personalities requests to have S.D. back. S.D. is unaware
of her alternate personalities, but the other alters know about each other.

Her main activities are painting and sketching, when she’s S.D. As for her other
personalities, it consists of art (albeit in various art styles based on the personality), music
playing (mainly the piano), and construction – well mostly with one of the male personalities.
When calm, S.D. speaks in a normal and soft tone, but once she becomes hysteric upon learning
that the personalities do indeed exist, her speech becomes loud and rapid, Hough still articulate
enough to understand clearly she speaks voluminously. Her attention span solely depends when
her personality chooses to switch places with her, causing her to become mentally disconnected
from reality. Once S.D. ‘regains’ control, she is unaware of the time and/or date. She has
mentioned that her colleagues have noticed that she spaces out a lot and would sometimes run
into walls or any object that’s in her path.

The client says she’s been experiencing blackouts and memory gappin for as long as she
can remember. She cannot recall the 2-3 years of her childhood so she was surprised to see that
she’s older and in a class that was teaching a type of math that she was unfamiliar with and had
difficulty keeping up. In her later life, she has no trouble remembering things as herself, but
when she has her black outs, she has no idea what she did during gaps in her memories.

As time goes on, due to the constant changes between the personalities, as the main in her
body she becomes tired and feels the mental strain despite the fact that she’s unaware of the
personalities that exist within her. Shevlater starts to display delusion of reference, thinking there
was indeed schyzoprenic like her late mother due to the behaviors her mother displayed and that
others are thinking she belongs in a psychiatric ward. After attacking her boyfriend and upon
hearing the full diagnosis, her judgement becomes clouded as she tries to claim that she is faking
it in an effort to deny that something’s wrong with her. S.D. is of high intellect compared to the
rest of her personalities (all of which still maintain the minds of a child) as she was able to
become a teacher (or an art student in the case of the 2007 film) as an independent adult, though
she admits to having trouble studying due to the black outs, causing her to not entire listen to her
lessons so she ends up becoming a substitute teacher as compensation

Although it was only recently she started experiencjng it, she starts experiencing visual
hallcinations, staring at what appears to be a person until she snaps out of her trance to find
herself in the place of where the hallunication stood. She displays various mood swings, though
it all depends on the personality that has decided to take control of her body and what the after
affect is on S.D. once she regains control. She has never displayed anger towards anything or
even cried in a long time since she was a child. Only after meeting her personalities did she
finally start to display all of the negative emotions she has been unable to show for years due to
the personalities being in charge of which gets to show and feel what. As herself, S.D. begins to
panic and denies that there are multipile personalities within her until Dr. Wilbur plays the
recordings the voices of all the personalities that has come out to talk. The reason why she wants
treatment as to figure out why the personalities exist, what was their person to be created by her
if she had a supposed happy childhood.

After Dr. Wiblur hypnotizes her, she remembers everything about her mother. The first
thing that comes out after remembering was the amount of hatred she feels towards her,
something which only P. (one of her personalities) has expressed various times but refused to say
why until now.

Female Personalities

• Vicky/Victoria: 13 year old (15 in the other version) who speaks French, a very strong,
sophisticated and mature personality who knows about and has insight into all the other
personalities, though S.D. does not. (states age when she is looking in the mirror at her
doctor's home) She soon starts to lose her control in sorting out the 15 other personalities
due to Mary thinking she’s in heaven and Marcia increasingly trying to make S.D. commit
suicide.

• Peggy: it is not said in the remake how old she is, but in the 1976 movie, she says she is 9
year old. Speaks like a little girl. Holds S.D.'s artistic abilities, often appears while crying
hysterically due to S.D.'s fears. She has many misconceptions; for instance, she does not
know that she is in New York City and, instead, thinks she is in the small town that S.D.
grew up. Peggy feels the greatest trauma from her mom's abuse, often feeling
sad/depressed and unable to find happiness. Her biggest fears include the green kitchen,
purple, Christmas, and explosions.

• Vanessa: Holds S.D.'s musical abilities, plays the piano and helps S.D. pursue a romantic
relationship with Richard. She's a young girl, possibly 12 years old (that's what Richard
says and Vanessa does not dispute).

• Marcia: dresses in funeral attire and constantly has suicidal thoughts and attempts
suicide. Supposedly tried to kill S.D. in the Harlem hotel but was stopped from Vicky.
She thinks the end of the world is coming, but what she really fears is the end of S.D..

• Mary: is S.D.'s memory of her grandmother; she speaks, walks and acts like a
grandmother, and is anxious to meet S.D.'s grandmother despite the fact that she’s been
dead for years.
• Nancy: who kept waiting for the end of the world and was afraid of Armageddon. She's a
product of S.D.'s dad's religious fanaticism.

• Ruthie: 6 years old, is one of S.D.'s less developed selves, a baby in fact. When S.D.
hears her mom's voice, she is so terrified that she regresses into Ruthie, an alter that
parallels S.D. as a helpless, regressive, pre-verbal baby.
• Sybil Ann: Around 5–6 years old. Very shy and rarely comes out.

Male Personalities

• Mike: built the shelf in the top of S.D.'s closet to hide Vickie's paintings, which she does
at night. He and Sid want to know if they can still give a baby to a girl like daddy did
even though they are in S.D.'s (a female's) body. He's around 9–10 years old.

• Sid: wants to be just like his father, loves football. He's around 7–8 years old.