Insegnante, 31 anni, “ha preso la vita dopo aver usato una droga per la perdita di capelli senza licenza” – mentre la fidanzata emette una pausa straziante
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35293514/teacher-took-own-life-hair-loss-drug/
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Article feels a bit bad faith when sadly a poor lad took his own life over the body dysmorphia about losing his hair and the Sun plasters his face all over an article saying over and over again ‘Sam was losing his hair.’ Just feels wrong to me.
> An inquest was told there are no known “suicidal ideation” side effects for the drug
> Wakefield Coroner’s Court heard Sam was concerned about losing his hair since 2015.
> The medic told the court he suggested Sam undergo cognitive therapy to ease his anxiety about going bald.
“Man took own life after eating sandwich three weeks prior, probably.” There’s no causal link.
“Sam Applegarth, 31, had no history of mental health problems”
“The PE teacher had recently started a course of dutasteride”
“Sam did take minoxidil… and finasteride without any side effects.”
“In 2017, he had a successful hair transplant”
“underwent platelet-rich plasma treatment to rejuvenate his hair.”
“Sam also had his head tattooed to give the appearance of hair”
The first statement doesn’t seem to be supported by the next five.
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Dutasteride isn’t unlicensed, its use for hair loss prevention is off label but can be prescribed by private hair loss clinics as a last resort.
Some of these hairloss drugs are brutal on the sides. It just ain’t worth it.
Luckily I dont suffer from balding. It’ll happen one day and I’ll embrace it.
They need to ban all these hair loss drugs. It pushes a crazy body image and they all have some shitty side effects.
Those flights to turkey to support a fascist economy are also not really great.
Bald is bald and that’s alright.
But in the age of 6 figures, 6 fr and 6 pack I’m not surprised.
> An inquest was told there are no known “suicidal ideation” side effects for the drug as there has been a failure to report such feelings by men taking the drug.
That seems a bit of an unsubstantiated leap…
Woman loses hair and confidence – you have to be sensitive.
Man is balding or bald – anything goes – guy should “man up”, nothing wrong with being bald, comment on how much older they look.
Double standards
Losing your hair young can take serious blow to you mental health and most people seem to think it’s funny to point out.
I think the body dysmorphia issue over hair loss is completely overlooked by a lot of people. Men especially who simply have little control over it.
I’m 35, I have male patterned baldness and thinning hair, and I have been since I was 25, I take two medications to combat this. I still have a fair amount of hair for my age.
Jokes are made by coworkers, friends and family to the state of my hair. Recently I was subject to a small tirade by one of the kids of the family who took screenshots from a video of me highlighting areas of my hair which are still thinning despite treatment.
Body dysmorphia in this country is insane. Mainly caused by social media and shitty reality tv like love island.
Look I look young anyway but I think people think me and my partner look younger than we are when everyone at our age looks 35 rather than 26 because so many people have plastic surgery especially women that make themselves look older than they are.
dutasteride being unlicensed isn’t true afaik it’s just less commonly used than finasteride and more powerful as it blocks more conversion of T to DHT. really sad but I think blaming it on dutasteride is a little insensitive given he was clearly struggling with his image for a long time and sounds like he tried a lot. not being able to go on is tragic but taking the last thing he did and attributing it to that blindly is really shit.
I mean it’s the sun so I am not surprised but fina and duta help a lot of people. this just sounds like a tragic story.