Doctors already know that traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to various defects in thinking, language and emotions. A TBI victim can experience depression, anxiety, aggression, acting out and feeling of social awkwardness. Experts think that if doctors establish a definite link between Junior Seau’s suicide and earlier head trauma, then the NFL will face numerous lawsuits from former players who now suffer from head trauma.
The link between TBI and depression has been in the news for a while.
Seau’s recent suicide added even more urgency to the issue for athletes and non-athletes. Experts suspect that a career of repeated hits to the head caused head trauma and subsequent symptoms of depression. The depression might have caused Seau to take his own life.
Last year, another former NFL player named Dave Duerson committed suicide. Doctors examined his brain and found that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is severe head trauma. Twenty more former NFL players also suffer from the same condition. Doctors do not know at this point if Junior Seau’s suicide was the result of the same condition. Investigators suspect that Seau shot himself in the chest in order to preserve his brain for study.
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