First female athlete diagnosed with the brain disease CTE | 7.30

Maybe contact sports do need a rethink. CTE is horrific.

Over the previous few years I had chronic anxiety, depression and a suicidiality that just lived in my brain like a bad housemate. It was chronic, unbearable and inside myself I believed that I would eventually die by suicide. It felt inevitable. I didn't know what was wrong with me. I eventually watched a podcast about CTE and such, and connected that when I was younger I had a few concussions (2 of them hospitalisations). After considering that, I went to a clinic that specialises in brain health and head injury recovery for sportspeople etc. Now my life is completely different. The anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies... All gone. I went from living in a constant state of brain fog, to being able to study again (now at university), and am building a positive, happy, fulfilling life with my wife. I don't know if CTE is a factor for me, but as a minimum, it shows how bad brain injuries can be, especially if undiagnosed or monitored post-incident.

No reference or credit to Dr. Bennett Omalu? Come on...

I’m so very sorry for the loss of your brave daughter. May God bless her for her courage and determination and may God console and heal you as you grieve for her. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

i had a classmate who had been a downhill skier and had a fair amount of bad crashes. She had this and ended up committing suicide after going back to school to complete her masters. She had been the first one to welcome me into our program at school with a bunch of others. I was working in another city (specialty field) with the rest of them when we found out. I tell you going to the wake was like being in an completely empty room but somehow it is filled with people. Just this overwhelming sense of a hole. It still makes me sad now. I happened to be in the same city as our university just before this happened and tried to stop in there several times to see her but always missed her. I still really regret that. I'll often find myself thinking about her every now and again when I'm working. So many better people get taken out and I'm still here. Doesn't seem right.

Kids starting contact sports like US football when they're 5 years old, can't be good. We lost a close family friend a few years ago to CTE (suicide) and it's horrifying. The show forgot to mention that you can't diagnose cte until you're dead. The majority of people (if not all) who have been diagnosed, died by suicide.

IT IS ridiculous that Even severe cte cannot Be diagosed while living.

I'm a Carolina Panthers fan and am so glad Luke Kuechly and Dan Morgan retired early after horrific concussions. Hopefully it will prevent them from getting CTE.

In all of my Shaolin, kung fu schools since 1984, I have never allowed sparring. There was never even a broken bone in any of my hundreds of students. I created push hands tournaments which promote balance and coordination, but do not allow kicking or punching. These are fun, develop skills, and both players are always friends and laughing at the end of each competition.

When I found this video. Before I watched it I was wondering which sport did she played for her to had CTE.

Maybe it's time to reconsider contact sports. CTE is awful.

I really hope it raises awareness because she only had low grade CTE when American Male NFL Football 🏈 players have been committing suicide for 20-30 years because of CTE. But it's only really been studied heavily here for 15 years. One of my close friends was one of the very famous players from the U.S. that committed suicide and when they say diagnosed they can only diagnose you after death and do an actual autopsy and brain scan. That's why the scientist are trying to get athlete's with concussion prone sports to donate their brains after death for research to prevent CTE from happening after a certain amount of serious grade concussions as well as make the NFL helmets as safe as we can possibly make them. A very hard tackle in American Football 🏈 (NFL) is about equal to a 35 mph car crash because your body stops so suddenly and then your brain keeps moving and hits the inside of your skull which causes the concussion. Thank you 60 minutes Australia for doing this story bringing awareness to CTE because it has affected me very closely with a life long friend who was and always will be an NFL Hall of Famer. To the young lady who lost her life because of CTE my thoughts are with her family and the crazy thing is they said she had very low grade CTE my close friend had very high grade CTE but after he retired he was battling really horrible depression even starting before he died but he was one of the most famous players to have committed suicide from that point in the NFL but he hid his depression very well. A lot of people in the U.S. may know the player I'm talking about with him playing for the San Diego Chargers,Dolphins and New England Patriots.

Pretty sure I have it. Keto helps. Low inflammation helps. Time is the enemy.

I wouldn’t be surprised that there would be others out there around the world, un diagnosed. But I also wouldn’t be surprised that more and more women may eventually be diagnosed with of course the increase of women playing full contact sports in professional leagues. The silent sleepers on this would be the women who play in amateur leagues.

In order to “ confirm “ CTE the patient must have their brain cross sectioned ! In other words a positive CTE diagnosis can ONLY be performed on a brain of a deceased person otherwise it is pure speculation.

Its started already such a waste sorry for your loss.

Contact sport Man or woman they know the risks,their not forced to play,accepted the risks & lost

wth if you play contact sports you gonna get CTE so why ppl pretend they don't know what gonna happen , accept the risk and play simple dont then sue later and play the victim