A human beings from Thailand whole cut off his penis in an sequence of cannabis - induced psychosis , according to a new case write up .
During this session , he experienced an hard-on unrelated to any intimate stimulation and started to sense sharp pains in his penis . The man , who had no prior history of psychiatric illness or other mental health trouble , reported that the glans of his phallus " front distorted " .
" Intending to eradicate the pain , " the authors write , " he determine to trim the penile hide several times and completely amputate his penis himself using scissors hold . "
The man was cognizant of the process as it was happening , he later report to doc , and attended the hand brake room after the hemorrhage had not bar after two hour . In the infirmary , the team was able to curb the bleeding . However , they were unable to reattach the penis as it was take for " too dirty and fragile for Reconstruction Period " .
" The stay penial stump was 2 cm in length with loss of the whole penile skin , " they wrote . " The amputated distal part of the penis was contaminated with ant . "
While recover , the gentleman’s gentleman was submitted to psychiatric evaluations , to find the cause of this episode .
" His mental position examen ascertain he had visual and auditory hallucination , such as seeing run shadows , hearing doll chirping or insect buzz , depressed climate , and restrict affect , " they write , mark " he was coherent and delusional , with no self-destructive ideas . "
The world reported employment of cannabis only , which a test of his urine corroborate , with no other drug or alcohol nowadays . No other underlying diseases or a family history of mental malady was find . Within four weeks of quit to use cannabis , his psychotic symptoms resolved , and the team diagnose him with ganja - hasten psychosis — a rare untoward effect of ganja . The squad noted there have been around a hundred pillowcase in the last two tenner .
They also note that the human could have had a case of priapism — where an erection endure longer than four hours , despite an absence of intimate stimulation — or it could have been an inauspicious ( subjective ) upshot of the cannabis . However , they could not name him with either , as the penis was removed before four hours had elapsed .
The military man was offered a penoplasty ( surgery to lengthen the penis ) , but has since relocated and has been unavailable to mouth to the team .
