GHD doesn’t stand for Ghastly Horrific Disease, but it could do. It happens after a sixth of concussions, and roughly a quarter of more serious head injuries and it makes you want to kill yourself. Interestingly, suicide risk is tripled after concussion, and four times after worse injury. There were over 100,000 people admitted to […]
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A large Danish population study which looked at more than 100,000 hospital admissions for head injury for over a decade and examined the causes of death, found this: You are four times more likely to kill yourself after you’ve suffered bruising or bleeding to the brain. You are three times more likely after concussion. You
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Yesterday I wrote to our MP, Chris Philp, as follows: May I ask what plans the government has made to meet the ever-increasing cost to the state of undiagnosed hypopituitarism patients? Now that NICE has at last undertaken to include the risk of post-traumatic hypopituitarism in its head injury guidance update in March, it seems
Head injury makes you four times more likely to die by suicide. Read more here.