Yes I have watched it. I watched it the first time and the unedited version when a counselor had asked me to go through testing because she noticed things like my journal writing had more than one style of handwriting and wording and when I was with her doing memory recall work I would space off. So she wanted the county mental health counselor t hat I was seeing to evaluate me and refer me for testing. So I watched that movie and it scared the crap out of me. I went to my county mental health appointment and lied so that I would not fit the oral questionaire that is given before referring someone for testing. then of course JEH got mad at me for lying to prevent testing. a few years later I went ahead and got tested and came up a 10 on the dissociative Identity Disorder's dissociation scale and very quickly told my therapist she was nuts in not so clean vocabulary and left.

when the movie came on cable I taped it because I had finally after 20 years come out of my denial by working with SKR. I thought I would watch it little by little but first I wanted to do some research on the book and movie and the person. What I found out was that some of what is in the movie has been overdramatized and in some cases the situations depiected in the movie had not existed, they were created by the scripting team in scripting for a movie to add dramatics for ratings.

So Im no longer afraid of that movie.I started watching a little bit at a time but still could not watch it with out losing tine and other dissociation problems soI put it on my shelf and left it there. About a year ago I gave it to my therapist and told her she could keep it. It wasn't doing me any good just sitting on my bookshel.

It has come on cable on a variety of channels including those that chop movies down to a G-PG ratings but still don't watch it. I know that some of the scenes have been made up and overdramatized. So I would end up sitting there getting mad at it saying yea right as if, give me a break, as if someone can REALLY clime up a wall bookcase and not have those boards buckle and eventually break that is made out of a thick steel slab so that it will hold Sally Fields weight. no cat in real life can have their head chopped off and then chase the person chickens involuntarily do that not cats and a person cannot literally hold hands with an alter like they show in the last scene.

Whats the use of watching something that I now know all the behind the scenes stuff of the making of the movie and so on.

the one thing I do like about the movie and the reality of what DID is - Every time Sally Fields went through a switch they showed very clearly that she was doing so because something in her present life matched the memory piece she switched into - when the swingset noice triggered (upset) her because it unconsciously reminded her of her mother and the abuse situation that contained that noise (the sense of sound) she switched into reacting the way she did when she reacted to the sound during the original abuse situation - walking (wailking with her mother to the barn) and she came out of it when that memory stopped replaying she had walked into a duck pond. During all the switches the watcher is shown very clearly that the switching happened because Sybil was triggered (upset) and that trigger (thing that upset her) was shown keeping with the truth of DID switching is trigger related and the resulting "alter" she switched was matched with what was happening in her present live.

Another part I liked is that the scripters stayed very true with the fact that when in an alter the person cannot be made to act or do anything that that memory is. When in the memory piece of suicide nothing could get her to do anything else but try to commit suicide. her boyfriend ended up grabbing her as she jumped, when she was triggered into a thumb sucking curled up memory piece she sat in that corner and curled up and sucked her thumb and nothing the therapist could do would change that. she could not be made to do anything she sat there and sucked her thumb for hours.

As for the therapist client relationship in the movie well on the one side I like it and on the other I don't because not all therapists are like this and people watching the movie might get the wrong idea of what to expect when they enter therapy. not all therapists are hands on and not all therapists hold their clients and not all therapists hold their sessions outside of their office.