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| Legendary Georgia running back Herschel Walker has multiple personalities. |
"Breaking Free" will chronicle Walker's life with multiple personality disorder, according to Shida Carr, a publicist at Simon & Schuster.
Carr said the book will be published in August, but gave no other details and declined to provide excerpts.
In three seasons at Georgia, Walker led the Bulldogs to a 33-3-1 record, three straight Southeastern Conference championships and the 1980 national title. He won the Heisman as a junior, then left school a year early to sign with the now-defunct U.S. Football League.
Walker played for the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants. He has lived in Dallas since his playing career ended.
A former Georgia teammate also was caught off guard by Walker's revelation.
"I'm probably one of his closest friends and that's news to me," said Frank Ros, who was captain of Georgia's 1980 national championship team. "I knew he was working on a book but I just thought it was about football. He does 100 things at once and always has projects going on, but that blows me away."
The newspaper said Walker could not be reached for comment.
Multiple personality disorder, also known as dissociative identity disorder, is a rare mental condition in which one person has two or more distinct personalities, according to the Merck Manual of Medical Information.I put this here with no other knowledge of the situation other than seeing this headline. It is my hope that with a celebrity personality more attention will be brought to the fact of what MPD/DID is and what needs to be done. I only hope it is positive attention.
happy trails
JW
1 comment:
Since 1996 I've been helping sufferers of this disorder reclaim ownership of their self. The only thing surprising to me in this revelation is that someone as successful and well known as Herschel is willing to publicly reveal this information about themselves. Integrating personalities is about discovering that the rejected parts of ourselves are not "bad" but merely doing what they can to help us survive whatever traumatic ordeal we went through. Oh, wow, this changes everything doesn't it? Acting out parts of ourselves are not horrible, just trying in their convoluted way to help us get through the experience. Funny, too, this is not any different for those of us without DID, to be integrated humans we have to accept the parts of us that we have disowned. Discover how this works at http://ohwowthischangeseverything.com/
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