Multiple Personality Disorder, Is There Really Such A Thing?

[oldpanightowl]

feywon>

" i have to ask if the 2nd paragraph is in anyway related to the 1st? "

Not at all. I probably should have put a space between the two. The response was a concern I had with an earlier post in this thread. I too grew up with and around firearms for hunting and large animal defense. Hunting was important to put food on the table. I have always thought firearm safety should be a one semester mandatory course taught in schools. I believe it would save some lives and teach responsibility. Where I went to High School it was not uncommon for students to have pickup trucks with rifle racks holding a shotgun or rifle. No one batted an eye. Life was different then though.

 

[RunRabbitRun]

Your thoughts, do you believe in Multiple Personality Disorder?

Yes.
I was once a member of another forum where an important government employee wrongfully leaked confidential information. He/she lost their job. After an examination, a psychiatrist discovered he/she was afflicted with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, aka "Multiple Personality Disorder"). They have found another job and have been receiving ongoing psychiatric consultation.

 

[Irwin]

Former NFL running back, Herschel Walker, has been diagnosed with DID.

Walker has spoken publicly about his diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder and has served as spokesperson for a mental health treatment program for veterans.[120] He wrote the 2008 book Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder[121] to help dispel myths about mental illness and to help others.[122]​

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In the book, Walker wrote that he had a dozen distinct identities, or alters.[88] According to Walker, some of his alters did many good things, but other alters of his committed extreme and violent behavior, which Walker said he mostly could not remember.[113] A competitive alter caused him to play Russian roulette in 1991, as he saw "mortality as the ultimate challenge", he wrote.[88][113] He was officially diagnosed with the disorder in 2001, after he sought professional help for being tempted to murder another man who was late in delivering a car to Walker.[88]​

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker​

Herschel Walker is running for a U.S. Senate seat in next year's Georgia elections. While I'm empathetic to his mental health issues, it might not be such a good idea for him to be in government where he has the ability and power to make decisions that affect a large number of people.