Electronically Brighter

Compelling books, movies and plays often are often enjoyed as a past time because they allow you to escape from your personal issues for a brief time. As the story unfolds, one can savor the characters’ experiences thus slowly allowing thoughts of one’s own life to trickle back into consciousness. Getting “lost” this way is pleasurable and healthy and allows one to return to reality somewhat refreshed.

Yet, people with dissociative disorders chronically escape their reality in involuntary, unhealthy ways ranging from suppressing memories to assuming alternate identities. The patterns of dissociative disorders usually develop as a reaction to trauma. It works in order to keep difficult memories at bay. Everyone has various facets that make up his or her personality. At times, they might manifest in bits and pieces, yet, experts can now explain cases in that there are portions in a personality such as D.I.D. These portions don’t come together as one cohesive single personality like normal people. Instead, one or the other part of the identity dominantly takes over and is the determinate factor in one’s behaviors.

Watch and listen to Herschel Walker talk about his personality disorder with Dr. Sanjay Gupta

In years past, Herschel Walker was the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner, pro football star, and Olympian. Last week, he was the bearer of the Olympic torch in San Francisco.

Read: Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Walker’s disorder