Mental Health and Finasteride Questions

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I am 20 and have a list of issues from anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder and ocd (most of these are linked together) and have recently been interested in finasteride as I am balding. On the contrary the post in PFS make me hesitant to start.

Anyone with anxiety or depression on fin can vouch for its affects? I am interested in tackling my balding early on but am super hesitant because alot of these posts make it seem like I am prone to PFS

  • Healthy mental state just am really anxious person and my depression comes in heavy waves

-Gym 5 times, Decently healthy eating

-I understand how to control when i feel low lows and take care of my mental health just am prone to overthinking and anxiety

-Never have been on SSRI on medicated.

Thanks guys, Love you all!

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Stop reading those anecdotes, you can pick any subject and read absolutely insane self-reports. Health forums on the internet attract hypochondriacs that don’t get on with their life like most people will.

Side effects can happen but the existence of PFS is disputed. To be clear, it might be real but it’s debated, to say the least.

Start with topical if you’re that worried:

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Hey thank you so much for the reply, I have decided to go get a prescription tomorrow worse case scenario I just stop. Looking at maybe starting at 0.5mg (or what the doctor says) and seeing how it works and then working my way up.

thanks for the response I will look into the articles you sent.

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