No one in the media who covered him ever truly knew Herschel Walker. I certainly didn't but I knew him well enough to rapidly ascertain very early on that many times he was full of ----.
If there was one thing that Herschel Walker could do better than anyone else it was be full of ----.
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| Walker doesn't remember how he felt after winning the Heisman? Weird, we remember hearing it. (US Presswire) |
Let's be crystal clear. I'm not mocking someone who possesses a mental illness because I don't really believe Walker has or ever had a mental illness.
What Walker possesses is a severe case of what doctors call trying to sell a book. He's simply vomited some tall tales and metaphysical malarkey in an attempt to make a profit.
People may come to believe Walker is crazier than a latrine rat, but he's as brilliant a marketer as Apple computer.
Walker writes in his new book Breaking Free that he possesses a rare mental illness called dissociative identity disorder, which led to him having multiple personalities.
It's important to note that while there are some medical professionals who believe in the disorder there are just as many who think it's a crock.
"It probably isn't real," Dr. Mark Levy, a distinguished life fellow at the American Psychiatric Association and assistant clinical professor psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, told ABC News. "Dissociation is real. It occurs after trauma in some people and in psychosis, like schizophrenia. However, I've never seen a so-called multiple personality in 35 years of practice."
And please pay close attention to Dr. Carole Lieberman, who is a psychiatrist in Beverly Hills. She believes some use the disorder as a crutch, an excuse, to pardon their actions.
"Psychiatrists must make the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder very carefully," she says, "because oftentimes patients want to find an excuse for their behavior by attributing it to a 'disorder' rather than their own impulsive mistakes."
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
We have a winner.
