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-- Peter Grant wasn't a famous athlete or a celebrity.
He was a regular guy and a family man. "He was jovial, always wanting to be around people. He loved to talk and read. And he loved Notre Dame," said his daughter Katie Grant, a University of Notre Dame senior from West Bridgewater, Mass.
Peter Grant, 49, a 1983 Notre Dame graduate, took his own life Feb. 8. It brought an end to an adulthood that included years of successful treatment for bipolar disorder, then several recent years of extreme depression.
Katie Grant agreed to discuss her father's death because she wants to educate the public about the disease of depression and its possible link to traumatic brain injury.
Peter Grant wasn't a varsity or professional athlete, but he was an enthusiastic high school and college interhall football and hockey player. During his high school years, her father suffered seven concussions, with at least two extended hospital stays, Katie said.
His death came just nine days before the suicide of Dave Duerson, the former Chicago Bears defensive back and Fighting Irish player who fatally shot himself in the chest at his Florida home.
The Grant family donated Peter Grant's brain and spinal cord to the Boston University study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the same study to which Duerson left his brain.
Duerson and Grant were classmates and acquaintances, and both lived in Grace Hall during their undergraduate years.
CTE is a progressive degenerative disease found in people who have experienced concussions and other forms of head injury. Those suffering from the disease may show symptoms of dementia such as memory loss, aggression, confusion and depression in the months after the injury or years later. Several former NFL players have been diagnosed after death with CTE.
Katie, her two siblings -- Chrissy, a Notre Dame junior, and brother Zachary, a high school junior -- and their mother, Kathy Grant, are still grieving the loss of Peter Grant.
But they want some good to come of his death.
Hope for awareness
The Grant family hopes Peter Grant's death will bring awareness of brain trauma to athletes at all levels.
Peter Grant, an accounting major, worked 20 years on the financial side of the Boston Globe. After he lost his job during widespread newspaper industry layoffs several years ago, he continued working as a media industry financial consultant, Katie said.
Her father visited Notre Dame at least once a year, usually during football season, and attended class reunions.
Her father experienced bouts of depression as a young man, and was diagnosed years ago with bipolar disorder. He took medication, which successfully treated the condition until a couple of years ago, Katie said.
The family is aware of the possible connection between depression and CTE. The Grants will receive results of the Boston University research on Peter Grant's brain, which may determine whether he had the disease.
Katie wants there to be more public discussion of depression, its symptoms and treatment. "There's still such a stigma. It's just a mental illness," she said.
Her father declined into a deep depression starting in December 2009, and experienced ups and downs after that.
"He came to (Junior Parents Weekend) at Notre Dame and he didn't really want to walk around or anything," Katie said, noting that wasn't like him. During his depressive periods, he would withdraw.


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