How Head Injuries Can Alter Personality, Cause Depression and Suicidal Thoughts

For months or even years after a brain injury, the risk of depression and suicide remains higher.

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Laura Kimbro held her son moments after he took his life and felt certain that he didn’t really want to kill himself.

Nearly two years prior, Seth Kimbro had looked at his parents with fear in his eyes and asked, “Am I going to die?” He’d been rushed to the emergency room by a friend after his face smacked a large mailbox partially surrounded by tall weeds on a ride in a utility task vehicle.