Denial: not just a river in Egypt

I watched Sybil the other day for the first time in years. That movie is a prime example of what happens when you combine extreme child abuse, repression and denial. Sure, Sybil didn't want to admit how abusive her mother was, but if her father had taken his head out of his ass for 5 minutes, or if the family doctor wasn't so content to look the other way, Sybil may not have felt the need to dissociate into other personalities. Denial really is a bitch and fraught with all sorts of consequences.