Father of Patient

last night he disappeared in his car…he had driven about 25 miles to…a particular place which my wife says is well known for suicides.

I am writing to you about our son who is 26 and we have just discovered the reason why he is in such bad shape. We have known for some time that he suffered from depression and more recently almost constant suicidal thoughts. We live in Kent, England and he has seen our family doctor and even a specialist in a nearby large hospital but it came to nothing. Whenever we asked him what news he had he told us that the doctors didn’t know what the problem was. However, last night he disappeared in his car without saying a word and when we became concerned about where he was, he texted him and found out that he had driven about 25 miles to the south coast, a particular place which my wife says is well known for suicides. When we learnt where he was we called him and spoke to him for a while, he was in bad shape, we tried to get him to drive back home but he said he was too tired. He drove back this morning and that is when it came out that he had taken finasteride because he was worried about hair loss. When he told us about this, we had a look on the internet and read sections of your website which appear to describe exactly what he is going through.

LG, 56, Kent, England: May 24, 2016

Condition update: August 2020

Considerably improved

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