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hack89

(39,171 posts)
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 06:22 PM Feb 2015

Male enhancement drugs may have caused psychosis in missing N.J. student, report says

TEANECK — The former Ivy League student who vanished in December lost touch with reality after an addiction to energy supplements and penis enlargement pills, Timothy Hamlett's family tells The Daily Beast.

The family believes supplements like Pygeum, Ginseng Panax, Vitalikor Male Enhancement, Big Jim and the Twins Penis Enlargement were responsible for the 20-year-old developing psychosis shortly before his disappearance.


http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2015/02/male_enhancement_drugs_may_have_caused_psychosis_in_missing_former_nj_ivy_league_student_report_says.html

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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. My feminist mentor used to refer to "cranial testosterone poisoning".
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:54 PM
Feb 2015

I had no idea she was serious!

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. "he took so many boner pills, he lost his damn mind" has just entered my vernacular.
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 08:14 PM
Feb 2015

I will be using it by the weekend.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
6. Yep - if I see that name in the store
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 01:25 PM
Feb 2015

I'm sure it's a sign of FDA approval after years of clinical trials.

hunter

(38,311 posts)
7. I experienced a few periods of psychosis at that age...
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 02:33 PM
Feb 2015

... caused by steroids prescribed for my asthma.

Prednisone is my number one favorite drug, and it scares the hell out of me. Five days is my limit. After that I require close supervision. A couple of weeks on oral steroids and I'm climbing out the second floor window and running down the middle of the street in my underwear at midnight.

Thankfully I've never had any worries about my penis, well except for a few mental health medications that I've learned kill my libido, or worse, cause anorgasmia.

Stories like this kid's are really sad.

Mental illness sucks.








Kaleva

(36,299 posts)
9. What guy tells his own mother that he's addicted to penis enlargment pills?
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:27 PM
Feb 2015

"Our son did not experience any issues until he started taking these supplements," mother Katherine Hamlett told the publication, noting the addiction began in Sept. 2013. "

http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2015/02/male_enhancement_drugs_may_have_caused_psychosis_in_missing_former_nj_ivy_league_student_report_says.html

dr.strangelove

(4,851 posts)
11. It amazes me that the "Penis Size Industry" exists.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:39 PM
Feb 2015

I am not sure if that is the best way to define it, but this portion of "society" has clearly convinced men that they must have a "big" penis to be productive members of society or to have a successful relationship. This notion has been marketed by the people selling these pills and has resulted in a "huge" and "growing" industry (could not resist those puns) selling useless pills to men who are convinced they need to have a bigger penis or they will be failures at life. I guess its true, the best way to be successful is to first create a market, then the product that fits in that market. I feel bad for all the young men taken in by these crooks. I would assume its all teens and young college age kids buying this stuff. To think that the pills might not only be useless, but harmful, is scary.

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