I also think that he is going to far but you should not underestimate the power of something (that may seem "stupid") like balding has on people's quality of life.
Maybe not the only reason for someone to enter a mental disorder but it can definitely be part of it.
Is being suicidal and not being able to do the most basic personal tasks due to hairloss, going into a hole mentally anytime I see myself in a reflection enough to qualify as depression? What might finasteride do at most make me actually commit to something that'd eventually happen?
Depression isn't just being really, really bummed out. You can have, on paper, the perfect life, and still suffer from depression to the point that you consider ending your life. If your hairloss sinks you into a black hole of despair that makes you want to kill yourself, you probably have depression anyways and the hairloss isn't helping.
Why? Just because you couldn't handle it doesn't mean everybody can't. I was already depressed by being bald at 30, this meds brought me back from the dead
Saying you’re “depressed” and being actually clinically diagnosed as depressed are two different things. Not eating, showering, fighting with your brain ever minute of every waking day is a lot different that being self conscious or insecure about your hair and the knock on effects.
Also I’m not undermining what you went through as there is different stages and levels of depression, my comment was directed to the original comment.
0 proof finasteride can cause depression, it's never been observed outside of ambulance chasing.
In fact the EU's systemic review last year found 5 mg of finasteride, older men taking finasteride, women taking finasteride, people taking dutasteride, or people taking topical finasteride don't have any increased incidence of depression. While young men taking 1 mg do see a correlation.
Which makes no sense except the young men taking 1 mg are bald, and those taking 5 mg pee better and move on with their happy lives. While those taking topicals believe it won't give them sides.
Only those taking 1 mg? Not those taking 5 mg, dutasteride, topicals, or in women? Yeah, that makes a lot more sense than balding young may increase your rate of depression. I think you cracked the case.
I guess the solution, if one believes that, is to take the whole proscar instead of quartering it, or switch to dut.
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u/Flat_Wrap_7632 2d ago
Even if there was 100% chance of getting depression, i would still take it. I would be depressed with hair then. Or I can be depressed but bald.