Patricia, disappeared in Las Palmas

The island has been beaten, by land and sea, and there is no trace of it | For years he has been fighting a depression “to which the doctors did not give importance”, laments his son Javier

“He’s not home.” On July 11, at ten in the morning, Javier’s phone rang. It was his aunt, who spent, like him, long hours with his mother: “no, your mother isn’t here,” he told her. She is called Patricia Martín Lorenzo, is 49 years old, and has been disappeared. He left home, in the Vegueta neighborhood (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) that Monday morning. Since then, they have been looking for her, since then, they have been waiting for her.

Smiling, sociable, supportive, affectionate, active; she lover of swimming, walking, running, she was going through a difficult moment, “she had depression and between my aunt and I we took care of her”. She hasn’t been since that day. They have beaten land and sea. The alert is high, the risk extreme. “We need everyone’s help to be able to locate her, because we don’t know what state she may be in or where she is. Any help is welcome, please,” pleads Javier.

Javier, one of his children -he has two- remembers every minute of that July 11th. “I was giving a night service. My relief did not arrive and, when it did not arrive, I returned home later. I should have been more or less around seven in the morning and I arrived at half past eleven“. When he arrived, his mother was not there. “My aunt called me around ten o’clock telling me that there was no one at home, I was left with doubts, how strange, but well, I thought, she must have gone out for a walk…”. Hours passed, Patricia did not return.

“We began to wonder where he could be, what he could have done… And, seeing that he did not arrive, in the afternoon we went to National Police to file the complaint“, recalls Javier. “Female, 49 years old, 1.65 m tall, 80 kilos in weight. She carries documentation and keys. She doesn’t have a phone, “the agents pointed out. “She has had depression, ups and downs, for years, she takes medication, which she doesn’t carry with her “. The raids start,” that afternoon we covered practically half of the island. Afterwards, we even took a boat and traveled the entire coast by sea”. The disappearance alert is activated immediately, That hasn’t stopped since.

He went to Telde, there is no more

“In the first few hours, he was urgently searched for,” recalls his son, “then everything began to decline.” The first investigations allowed to reconstruct the steps that Patricia took hours later. A camera from a store recorded it in the neighborhood of La Garita, in Telde (Gran Canaria). “We don’t know what she bought, but she is seen there for the last time, at noon, on that same July 11.” Next is silence. Everything faded to black, there is no more.

depression came

Adventurous, happy, mother of two children, separated, although with a friendly relationship with her ex-partner. For no apparent reason, depression settled in his life. “We don’t know the trigger, but we do know that we’ve been asking for help for years.” did not arrive. “There is much to be done in mental health. So much so that a person in my mother’s situation could not be entered because the psychiatrist said that she was not for that. I really was, well, we’ll see how it ended. If she had been in the hospital, maybe … “, regrets his son.

Patricia was fighting against the elements to make her day-to-day normal. Swimming, walks, track races, lots of sea. Years ago, he had worked in banking, although his profession, to which he dedicated many years and hours, was law. She focused on recovering right now, he dedicated his day to writing, resurfacing, fighting. “Loving yourself”, “getting ahead”, “knowing how to ask for forgiveness” and “not giving up”, are the messages that he championed. Very active in social networks, Patt, as she signed, he did not hesitate to tell and sing to the world that always, even if they come badly, “you have to walk”.

“The doctor told my mother: you don’t have any disease, you just have a problem and you have to deal with it. How? According to them, at home,” Javier denounces.

It had peaks, highs and lows. “My mother made admission requests for years and repeatedly,” laments Javier. “She asked for it because she felt safer there,” she says. “She went to the hospital by ambulance several times. And, in the same hospital, They sent her home again. It was always the same: he arrived because of anxiety, since depression led him to have crises and, once he was there, they washed their hands, as they say”, Javier is hurt. “The doctor told my mother months before disappearing: ‘you don’t have any disease, you just have a problem and you have to deal with it. How? According to them at home“, denounces.”He never tried to kill himself, but he did run away. He tried, in fact, a little while ago, the we locate thanks to the phone and as a result of that she found out that she could be found by phone And that’s why he didn’t take him on July 11.”

“He has decided to disappear”

Without clues, without a trace, Patricia’s family asked for help through social networks. “Sightings came in the first three weeks“. None effective. Police, his son denounces, everything stopped. “According to what they say, is an adult person, in their right mind, who has decided to leave home. Therefore, the high risk disappears, according to his version.”

The sightings stopped. There was no more news, more data. “Where are you?” is the question that never stops. “We’ve been looking for two months and there’s nothing. The whole family is practically oriented to a single feeling, the that my mother is no longer alive“, Javier is hurt. “Everyone the indications we have point us to that… but of course, we do not rule out, on the other hand, that she has decided to enter some type of center, that we do not have communication… That she is disoriented … “, he affirms broken.

He left home 78 days ago. “White t-shirt, loose pants in shades of orange, pink-orange brick t-shirts, white jacket tied at the waist and a green Nike bag,” Javier describes, already by heart.

They have shouted his name, published his photos, looked at his networks, his mobile. “I analyzed all the photos of him from 2014 to 2022. I spent a week doing it, parto review sites, people… something that would lead us to her.” She didn’t. “We also reviewed the calls from the previous four months.” didn’t work. “We haven’t stopped looking for two months. We haven’t stopped looking, we’re not going to stop, but we have nothing.” They have beaten mountains, sea, city, “even ravines.” No this.

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 be able to help. He is a very dedicated person with others”. Pleasant, happy, smiling, “even in his hard moments. She went out to the street and you didn’t notice it, she was always smiling, jovial “. Everyone is looking for her, waiting for her. They need help. Patricia is not there.