My Life Has Been Ruined by an Anti-Baldness Drug

My Life Has Been Ruined by an Anti-Baldness Drug
I’ve endured depression, anxiety, headaches, memory loss, insomnia, blurred vision, and impotence since I was 19
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Sep 14, 2018
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Photo by Sholto Ramsay on UnsplashIt sucks to be a teenager losing your hair. You start to notice your friends’ eyes darting up to your hairline. You become the butt of jokes. You feel marked out, as if the gene gods have tagged…
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