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Mood disorders occur more often in such cases, due to hallucinations, delusions and incomplete thoughts. Children receiving anabolic steroids exhibit elevated levels of depression and anxiety, as well as aggression, fatigue, and tearfulness. These effects most often occur as behavioral changes. Patients with recurrent mood disorders induced by anabolic steroids exhibit high psychotic traits. This causes problems in depressive, manic, or mixed states, including suicide. Antidepressants help in some cases, but can cause agitation or psychosis. Most patients will recover if doctors reduce the dosage or discontinue anabolic steroids. Steroids can also cause cancer. For example, testicular cancer, also called malignant testicular tumor, is a cancer that begins in the male organs that produce male hormones and sperm (testes). The risks of this cancer include; White American men between the ages of 20 and 34 are more likely than any other race to have it, to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, and ultimately to have undescended testicles. Stay away from anabolic steroids to reduce your chances of getting them