My Life With Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Herschel Walker with Gary Brozek and Charlene Maxfield

Foreword by Dr. Jerry Mungadze

Walker was born a poor African American child on the wrong side of the tracks in rural Georgia. He stuttered and suffered from obesity and Osgood-Schalter disease. He witnessed the Klu Klux Klan terrorizing other children. The result? Walker has multiple personalities. Text stolen from DJCline.com.

After reading that last paragraph, it is a wonder he is still standing. He overcame all of this to win the Heisman Trophy, play a decade for the NFL and run his own business. He went from poverty to getting career advice from Donald Trump.

He says that having Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) kept him out of trouble. It is not a disability, it is how he functions. Considering all the trouble athletes can get into, his remarkable system kept him away from drugs, steroids, gambling, dog fighting and out of jail. When his football career ended and his marriage fell apart he did not kill his wife like O.J. Simpson (whom he crossed paths with). The DID acted as a circuit breaker keeping him from pulling the trigger.

He also credits his success to strong family support and his faith in Jesus. Obviously there are more angels than demons on those broad shoulders and I am not going to argue with him. The book is heavy on scripture and motivational metaphors that you would find in most sports biographies but I did not mind because of how open he is about the rest of his life.

This is one of the more unusual inspirational biographies I’ve ever read. Recommended.

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