We previously wrote a blog about Kosta Karageorge right after his tragic death in 2014. Karageorge was an Ohio State football player and former wrestler whose life ended with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. After sending a few texts to his girlfriend, then his mother, Karageorge, climbed into a dumpster in an alley near his apartment, and…
ReadAs a mother, when your child is born, you never imagine his life ending with a death by suicide while you sit helpless on the other end of the phone line. This is what happened to Karen Kinzle Zegel when she received a phone call from her son, Patrick, 32 years old, as he calmly…
Read“The whole game needs to change, and, again, I don’t know if anyone’s going to embrace it,” George Visger said in an interview with 19 Action News in Cleveland. Visger was discussing the recent death by suicide of Ohio State football player Kosta Karageorge. Tragic deaths such as these, as difficult as it is to…
ReadOn January 6th, 2014, National Public Radio (NPR) released an eye opening report on how destructive leadership within the Army may be a contributing factor to suicide in combat veterans. The direction of the report was initiated by a very surprising source. In 2010, while supervising the step down of Army forces in Iraq, Brigadier…
ReadA study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco has noted that veterans with more experiences involving killing were twice as likely to have reported suicidal thoughts as veterans with fewer or no experience involving killing. In the study, the authors created for variables or…
ReadThough we’ve seen greater effort to address traumatic brain injuries and suicide rates of military personnel in the past several years, TIME magazine recently reported that there were 32 suspected suicides by service members in July—a record high since the Army began releasing the data two years ago. Additionally, back in January, Congress.org reported that…
ReadAre the brains of people who think about suicide or attempt to take their lives different? For years we have attributed the feelings of hopelessness and despair associated with suicide to a person’s psychological state. Dr. Georg Northoff, a psychiatrist and medical researcher at the Royal Ottawa Mental Healthy Centre and the University of Ottawa…
ReadThe noted neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, M.D., is a person with prosopagnosia, in other words an inability to recognize faces. Click here for the interview with Doctors Oliver Sacks and Sanjay Gupta as they talk about this relatively rare neurological occurrence. http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/04/human-factor-faces-never-familiar-to-famed-doctor/?hpt=Sbin
ReadThis week I am presenting on the topic of Suicide and Traumatic Brain Injury at the Silent Wounds of War: Addressing the Needs of Our Returning Vets conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Brain injury and the significant mental health problems (PTSD, suicide, depression and substance abuse) experienced by some veterans are coming to the forefront through…
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