David Corn: Herschel Walker Should Release His Medical Records

[babylonsister]

31 mins ago
Herschel Walker Should Release His Medical Records
His claims about his battle with Dissociative Identity Disorder has raised questions his campaign has so far dodged answering.
David Corn

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Walker’s case is different. He has acknowledged his personal history of violent and dangerous behavior. He played Russian roulette with a loaded gun and fantasized about shooting a delivery man who was late. “It would be no different from sighting at the targets I’d fired at for years—except for the visceral enjoyment I’d get from seeing the small entry wound and the spray of brain tissue and blood—like a Fourth of July firework—exploding behind him,” Walker wrote in his 2008 book, Breaking Free: My Life With Dissociative Identity Disorder. That’s disturbing. And his ex-wife reports that he once held a gun to her head—an episode Walker says he doesn’t remember. Walker claims these actions were all the result of DID, the mental disease he wrote about, which creates independently functioning identities within a single person.

Once known as Multiple Identity Disorder—and popularized in popular culture by such movies as Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve—the very existence of this disorder is controversial, with many health experts questioning whether it is a legitimate diagnosis. Walker, though, has cited it as an explanation (or excuse) for previous alarming behavior. That wasn’t me; my alters did it. But he asserts there’s now no reason to worry; he has been cured of DID.

These statements have escaped much scrutiny during Walker’s Senate run. As my colleague Abby Vesoulis noted in a superb piece on Walker and DID,

Despite the fact that Walker’s Senate race is one of the closest and most consequential in the nation, his DID diagnosis seldom gets more than a brief mention in media reports. Experts have largely avoided commenting publicly on Walker’s mental health, or on whether it would impact his ability to carry out the high-stress, high-profile job of serving as a United States senator. In interviews with Mother Jones, several psychiatric professionals were hesitant to comment on Walker’s condition. Some were even reluctant to discuss DID more generally.

Whether Walker had DID and whether it was responsible for his violent past, his claim of being cured warrants examination. He has proclaimed that he is “better now than 99 percent of the people in America,” and has compared his DID experience to a broken bone: “Just like I broke my leg; I put the cast on. It healed.”

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/herschel-walker-should-release-his-medical-records/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. M$M was all over Fetterman, yet mostly silent about Walker. Thanks, Mother Jones!

[Baitball Blogger]

3. +1

[onenote]

15. And I recall that DUers defended Fetterman's decision not to release his medical records

[2naSalit]

2. This is why...

I really like David Corn.

[bdamomma]

4. I think he

should too. And not only him, but there's also several of them who should disclosed their mental state.

I can name several I'm sure DU'ers could name some too.

[mopinko]

5. i cant believe we didnt challenge gosar.

i'm holding some hope that we get rid of a few of these lunatics.
charge some traitors, make enough of an issue of the clear dysfunction of some of them that they quit.
cuz we'll rock an special elections. you know that's what they'd do.

[Midnight Writer]

6. He'd just get Ronny Jackson to write a note saying he is the most stablest genius since TFG.

[republianmushroom]

7. Medical, hell , how about his psychological records.

[niyad]

8. I have encountered two individuals who apparently had DID.. In both cases, I

witnessed a complete change of personality, voice, facial expression, even posture. One of the incidents was harrowing, the other merely unsettling. Neither of them received any kind of help.

The incidents were real. .the causation? No idea.

[Captain Zero]

9. If he has this, is it safe to be in the Senate with him

His episodes obviously become very violent.

Are other senators in danger with him in the chamber?

There are no guarantees he won't snap again.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. The only case I ever saw was trying to kill me with a heavy wooden chair

That was one of them. We'll call him 'Chris." While I lay on the floor bleeding and wondering about my life choices, 5 other nurses and techs wrestled the guy down - and another personality popped up long enough to tell us what we really needed to do was get in touch with Officer Juarez, because he's the only one who could get Chris under control.


Ah - those were the days.

[babylonsister]

13. I dated a guy who had/has it.

He told me up front and I thought it'd be a hoot to date so many different people at once.

But boy, was I wrong. Yes, I'd see him 'turn', change personalities, become someone different. Pretty unnerving to both of us. He knew he was being replaced, but didn't always know which personality was doing what. And he thought there might be more personalities in him than he was consciously aware of.

That was about 9-10 years ago, I moved, haven't been in touch since.

[ZonkerHarris]

10. k&r

[DemocraticPatriot]

11. Is Walker actually a vampire or a werewolf?

And would that be in his medical records?


Walker says "what is medical records?"

"Do you play them at 33 or 45rpm?"

[Vinca]

14. Plus, there's the football history. The guy "ain't right" and I suspect that's the cause.