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25/10/2008 14:15
even if it was years ago, there's a risk that his/her pituitary gland may have been damaged, and a possible effect of that is that a girl may not start her periods, and a boy may grow up to have erectile dysfunction. Our son fell from a tree when he was seven and fractured his skull like in many places. He made a fantastic recovery, and nobody ever warned us there might be difficulties in adulthood.
But this August, at the age of 31, he committed suicide. We discovered afterwards from his ex-girlfriend that he was impotent throughout the 4 years they were together. This explains so many things to us now - why he was so terribly upset when she left him (she'd accepted him as he was, but who else would?) and why, when he heard his best friend's wife was pregnant, he drove 200 miles that evening to congratulate him, and then the 200 miles back, through the night, and went to work as usual the next day. We thought he was crazy, but now we can see how deeply he must have felt. And we understand how it must have been for him this year, when his younger sister and cousin were both getting married, and his best friend's second baby had been born, how he must have felt everybody was moving on except him, and he had no hope.
We feel so terribly sad that we didn't know what his problem was, or that head injury could cause it.
The irony is that it could have been successfully treated with testosterone.
So please, if you have a depressed male friend or relative who has ever had a head injury, make sure you tell them. (I'm saying 'male' because I don't think girls would hide a menstruation problem in the same way, but I may be wrong.)