Corey’s Reviews > Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities > Status Update

Honestly considering just skipping to the end at this point

Genuinely baffled by the Catholic thing like

Girl what

I was not expecting the anti-Catholic sentiment???

Like this is just an antisemitic conspiracy theory but about Catholics instead of Jews what is happening

Ugh it just keeps going

This whole segment feels gross

I do think some of the more egregious aspects of the "psychology" in this book become forgivable when you remember it was written in the 70s

Like I cannot emphasize enough how much the abuse depicted that isn't clearly sensationalized at best and wholly fictionalised at worst is enough by itself to induce DID

Yeah see the idea that this level of abuse would result in no one saying anything continues to annoy me.

You cannot say a child remembered the rage at being switched to being bottle fed at 11 months old

That's not how memories work

What's frustrating is that I don't believe that the subject of this "true story" wasn't abuse

I don't even necessarily believe anyone (including the author) intended to lie

But there is a clearly sensationalized and fictionalised aspect to the book that makes me uncomfortable