"He wanted to get more help," she recalled of their conversations. "I think it was even harder for him, being on active duty - the shame and the stigma."
During that time, she said, Livelsberger - who was on approved leave from his Special Forces unit in Germany at the time of his death - told her that he'd struggled with a cloudy memory, poor concentration, difficulty maintaining relationships and intense guilt over his actions in combat.
Livelsberger's injury may help illuminate how the decorated 37-year-old Green Beret ended up dead in a Tesla Cybertruck that authorities say exploded after he fired a gun into his head.
Arritt recognized those symptoms as consistent with what can follow a blow to the head or massive jolt to the body. Such injuries, she knew, could fuel a gradual, heartbreaking deterioration of someone's mental state.
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