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Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide [1]

['Dave Philipps', 'Kenny Holston']

Date: 2024-06-30

David Metcalf’s last act in life was an attempt to send a message — that years as a Navy SEAL had left his brain so damaged that he could barely recognize himself.

He died by suicide in his garage in North Carolina in 2019, after nearly 20 years in the Navy. But just before he died, he arranged a stack of books about brain injury by his side, and taped a note to the door that read, in part, “Gaps in memory, failing recognition, mood swings, headaches, impulsiveness, fatigue, anxiety, and paranoia were not who I was, but have become who I am. Each is worsening.”

Then he shot himself in the heart, preserving his brain to be analyzed by a state-of-the-art Defense Department laboratory in Maryland.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/navy-seals-brain-damage-suicide.html

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