It is a hormone, so it has the potential to give rise to mood disorders.
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nesc@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
The side effects of finasteride can include suicidal thoughts
How?
apis@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Chuymatt@beehaw.org 6 days ago
The rates of the side effects listed are highly blown out of proportion. Humans are inherently pretty terrible at assessing risk on such scales.
SleafordMod@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I’m not sure, but the UK’s National Health Service mentions depression as a potential side effect.
Drugs can have all sorts of side effects through mechanisms that we might not fully understand (maybe scientists do understand this particular mechanism though, I don’t know).