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Herschel Walker Has Personalities To Spare

NFL nerds know that Herschel Walker helped jumpstart the Dallas Cowboys mid-’90s dynasty when he was traded for damn near half the Minnesota Vikings’ draft picks in 1989. It turns out maybe that trade wasn’t so one-sided after all. Today, Walker releases his memoir Breaking Free, where he talks about coping with multiple-personality disorder (politically correct terminology: “dissociative identity disorder”). Check a sample passage of Walker talking about the members of his “team”:

“I had a coachlike alter who would recognize what was going on…and he would point to one of the other alters on the bench…Not all of the alters knew of the existence of the others, but some did. For example, the Hero alter knew that the Consoler existed and was aware as well of the presence of the Fightened/Wounded alter. He didn’t much care for the weakness the Frightened/Wounded alter exhibited.”

After the jump, watch a video of a man struggling to live with D.I.D.: