Uh….. what?
In this old recording, Georgia senate candidate Herschel Walker can be heard claiming that his multiple personality condition is not a disorder, because Jesus also had multiple personalities. "Do our Lord Jesus Christ have a mental illness because he said he's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? To me, those are 3 different personalities."
Here’s some context here:
NFL superstar Herschel Walker has long suffered from multiple personality disorder, the Heisman Trophy winner discloses in an upcoming autobiography.
Former teammates were surprised to learn Walker, 46, who played for several professional teams, suffered from the mental disorder. People with the condition develop multiple alternative identities, each identity sometimes unaware of the memories and actions of the others. The disorder often stems from a childhood trauma.
"No one ever would have thought he was sick," said former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Danny White, who played with Walker from 1985 to 1987.
"Herschel was always a little bit different," White told ABC NEWS.com. "He kept very much to himself and was a real loner. From our standpoint though, no one ever thought there was anything wrong with him."
Now here’s some more context about Walker’s therapist, Dr. Jerry Mungadze:
Walker and Mungadze first met in the early 1980s when both ran college track. They didn’t become friends until after Mungadze, who holds a doctorate in philosophy, diagnosed Walker with dissociative identity disorder following a separate 2001 episode in which Walker says he sped around suburban Dallas, hearing voices and fantasizing about executing a man who was late delivering a car he had purchased. Psychologists and counselors generally do not have medical degrees.
A former pastor, Mungadze has held a counselor’s license in Texas for over three decades and offers himself as an expert in treating dissociative identity disorder, which was once known as multiple personality disorder.
His professional and academic writings lean heavily into the occult, exorcism and possession by demons, which he called a “theological and sociological reality” in a 2000 article “Is It Dissociation or Demonization?” that was published in the Journal of Psychology and Christianity.
In one method of analysis he has pioneered, which experts have singled out as unscientific, patients are asked to color in a drawing of the brain, with Mungadze drawing conclusions about their mental state from the colors they choose. In 2013, he told the televangelist Benny Hinn that he can use the drawings to tell whether someone has been “demonized.”
So to recap:
Catch up quick: Mungadze diagnosed Walker with dissociative identity disorder after a 2001 incident when Walker says he sped around suburban Dallas fantasizing about executing a man who was late delivering a car he'd purchased, which Walker outlined in his autobiography.
- That same year, police in Irving received a call from Mungadze because Walker was armed with a gun and scaring his estranged wife, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press.
- A former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader told Irving police in May 2002 that she believed Walker had been lurking outside her house, per the same AP report.
- In January 2012, another woman told Irving police that Walker "lost it" when she tried to end her relationship with him, telling police that Walker threatened to wait outside her apartment and "blow her head off," according to another police report.
Mungadze and Walker became friends, according to Mungadze's website, and Mungadze wrote the foreword to Walker's 2009 book, "Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Disorder."
Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D. GA) is getting a boost on this:
President Joe Biden will advocate for a three-month halt on collecting the 18-cents-a-gallon federal gas tax, lending his support to a plan that U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and others first proposed in February.
Any suspension of the gas tax, which also adds 24-cents-per-gallon to diesel prices, must be approved by Congress. While Republicans have criticized Biden for not doing more to respond to record high fuel prices, it is unclear if there are enough votes in either chamber to support a gas tax holiday.
Conservatives and even some Democrats have argued that gas tax holidays do little to combat the price of gas, which currently hovers near $5 on the nation average, while potentially increasing the deficit.
“I have not been a proponent of the gas tax [holiday],” House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday, according to Punchbowl News. “There’s no guarantee that the sellers, either wholesale or retail, will reduce their prices. And then, of course, we’ve got to backfill [the Highway Trust Fund]. I just don’t know that it gives much relief.”
Under the White House plan, announced early Wednesday morning, Biden is also asking Congress to ensure any suspension of the gas tax will not have a negative effect on the federal Highway Trust Fund.
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