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Former football player Herschel Walker, who was endorsed by former president Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, won the Republican nomination with 68% of the vote.
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Walker has spoken publicly about being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder and has served as spokesperson for a mental health treatment program for veterans.[158] He wrote the 2008 book Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder[159] to help dispel myths about mental illness and to help others.[160]
In the book, Walker wrote that he had a dozen distinct identities, or alters.[93] According to Walker, some of his alters did many good things, but other alters exhibited extreme and violent behavior, which Walker said he mostly could not remember.[152] A competitive alter caused him to play Russian roulette in 1991, as he saw "mortality as the ultimate challenge", he wrote.[93][152] He was formally diagnosed with the disorder in 2001, after he sought professional help for being tempted to murder a man who was late in delivering a car to him.[93]
Walker attributed his divorce to his behavior caused by the disorder.[152]
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According to Walker's ex-wife, for the first 16 years of their marriage, Walker's alters were somehow controlled, and she had no idea that he had any disorder.[152] Grossman said that the situation greatly deteriorated once Walker was diagnosed, after which he began to exhibit either "very sweet" alters or "very violent" alters who looked "evil".[152] She said that in one situation where Walker exhibited two alters, she was in bed when he held a straight razor to her throat and repeatedly stated that he would kill her.[152] Walker did not deny Grossman's account, saying that he did not remember it, because blackouts were a symptom of the disorder.[152]
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originally posted by: godsovein
a reply to: EternalShadow
"Whataboutism" is what goes on in that guys head every waking moment, bet the ego's be shifting the blame and such at each other all day rationalizing what each or the others have been doing. They cant turn it off. There's no cure for it. It's a never ending battle in their head. It lowers their IQ because the brain is so busy with it all all the time.
The evidence is that he admitted that he probably did do that but because of his multiple personalities he doesn't remember.
You're pathetic. Mental illness is treatable.
Dissociative identity disorder, on the other hand, isn't a chemical imbalance. Medications, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and antianxiety medications are commonly prescribed to people with DID. Yet, these medications are used to treat secondary DID symptoms and comorbid conditions, not the DID itself. Dissociative identity disorder cannot be corrected by any medication.