“He’s not at home.” At ten o’clock on the morning of July 11, Javier’s phone rang. It was her aunt like herself who spent long hours with her mother: “No, your mother isn’t here,” she told him. named Patricia Martín Lorenzo, 49 years old and disappeared. He left his home in the Vegueta district (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) on Monday morning. They’ve been looking for him ever since, they’ve been waiting for him ever since.
Smiling, sociable, supportive, affectionate, active; She said that she likes to swim, walk, run, has a hard time, “she got depressed and my aunt and I took care of her”. Hasn’t been since then. They conquered the land and the sea. The alarm is high, the risk is extreme. “We need everyone’s help to find him because we don’t know what condition he is in or where he is. Any help is welcome, please,” says Javier.
Javier, one of his two children, remembers every minute of July 11. “I was doing the night service. My help didn’t come, and when I didn’t, I came home later. I should have been roughly seven in the morning and arrived at half past eleven.“. Her mother was not there when she arrived. went for a walk…” Hours passed, Patricia did not return.
“We began to wonder where he could be, what he could do… And when we saw that he wasn’t coming, we went in the afternoon National Police make a complaint‘, recalls Javier. ‘The woman is 49 years old, 1.65 m tall, weighs 80 kilograms. Move documents and keys. He doesn’t have a phone,” the agents drew attention. “He has depression, he has ups and downs, he takes drugs he hasn’t carried for years.” The raids begin, “that afternoon” we covered almost half of the island. Then we even got on a boat and toured the whole coast by sea.” Disappear alert is activated immediately, This has not stopped since then.
Went to Telde, didn’t stay
“It was urgently called in the first few hours,” his son recalls, “and then everything started to subside.” Initial investigations allowed to reconstruct the steps Patricia took hours later.. A camera recorded this from a store in the La Garita district in Telde (Gran Canaria). “We don’t know what he bought, but he was last seen there at noon on July 11.” Next silence. Everything went black, no more.
depression has come
Adventurous, happy, mother of two, separated from her ex-husband despite having a friendly relationship. For no apparent reason, depression settled into his life. “We don’t know the trigger, but we know we’ve been asking for help for years.” did not arrive. “There is so much to do in mental health. So much so that he is a person in my mother’s condition” could not enter because the psychiatrist said it wasn’t for. I really was, we’ll see how it ends. If I had been in the hospital, maybe…” she grieves for her son.
Patricia was fighting against the elements to normalize her daily life. Swimming, walks, track races, plenty of sea. Years ago, he had worked in banking, although his profession was law, to which he devoted many years and hours. Currently focused on recovery, he dedicated his day to writing, to surface, to fight. “Loving yourself”, “going forward”, “knowing to ask for forgiveness” and “not giving up” are the messages he advocates. Patt, who is very active on social networks, as she signed, even though they sounded bad, he always did not hesitate to sing and sing to the world “you have to walk”.
“The doctor said to my mom: You don’t have any disease, you just have a problem and you have to deal with it. How? They’re at home,” says Javier.
It had its highs, its ups and downs. “My mom has asked for admission over and over for years,” Javier complains. “He asked for it because it seemed safer there,” he says. “He went to the hospital by ambulance several times. And in the same hospital, They sent him back home. It was always the same: He came because of anxiety, because depression put him into fits and when he was there, they washed their hands, as they say,” Javier was hurt. “The doctor told my mom. months before it disappeared: ‘you don’t have a disease, you just have a problem and you have to deal with it. How? According to them at home“condemns.”He never tried to kill himself but escaped. Actually, he just tried, we found it by phone and as a result he I found out that you can be found by phone That’s why he didn’t get it on July 11th.”
“Decided to disappear”
Without leaving any clues or traces, Patricia’s family sought help through social networks. “The views came in the first three weeks“None of them are effective. Police reported his son, everything stopped. “They say, He is a sane adult who has decided to leave home.. Therefore, the high risk relative to its version disappears.”
The protocol of the Ministry of Interior on the search for missing persons is as follows: Even if they leave voluntarily, those who have mental health problems are among the involuntary disappearances.. Problems with cognitive impairment, mental disorders, psychotic break, neurodegenerative diseases or people with disabilities. existence of some other illnesses, such as anxiety disorders or depressionIt is considered an important factor to be considered as it can affect the development of the individual’s decision-making process.
The talks stopped. There was no more news, no more data. “Where are you?” It is a question that never stops. “We’ve been searching for two months and nothing. The whole family practically has one feeling, my mother is no longer alive“, Javier injured. “Everyone the indicators we have point us to this… but on the other hand, we do not rule out that he has decided to enter some kind of center, that we have no communication … Of course, we do not rule out that he was disoriented … ”, confirming that he was offended.
He left home 78 days ago. Already by heart, Javier describes him as “a white t-shirt, baggy orange trousers, pink-orange brick T-shirts, a white waistcoat and a green Nike bag.”
They shouted your name, posted photos, looked at their networks, at their cell phone. “I went through all his photos from 2014 to 2022. I spent a week doing this, fatherrto control places, people…something that would lead us to it.” He didn’t. “We also looked at calls from the previous four months.” it didn’t work. “We haven’t stopped looking for two months. We haven’t stopped looking, we won’t stop but we have nothing.” They conquered the mountains, the sea, the city, even “mountain passes”. No this is it.
Vital, energetic. Solidarity. “She is a very good woman, she helps everyone. At home and abroad. He signed up for Cáritas and organizations just to help. He is a very selfless person towards others”. Pleasant, happy, smiling, even in difficult moments. He went out into the street and you didn’t notice, he was always smiling, cheerful”. Everyone is looking for him, waiting for him. They need help. Patricia is not there.