Posted on 02/18/2015 2:14:22 PM PST by Reeses
TEANECK, NJ — 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.
Hamlett, a former track star at the University of Pennsylvania, hopped a jitney near his Teaneck home into Washington Heights in Manhattan on Dec. 26. It's the last time he's been seen or heard from.
"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. "And people look at us cross-eyed and I know there's a lot of skepticism. But if you look at the history he goes all the way through school--no issues whatsoever and then he starts taking these supplements and everything in his life, literally everything in his life changes."
The Hamletts removed their son from school after he began showing signs of what they thought could be schizophrenia, they told The Daily Beast. Experts told the site that it was inconclusive if the stimulants Hamlett had taken could have caused psychosis.
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The road is long and hard to navigate...
Parents are grasping at straws trying to blame a psychosis on relatively inert herbs.
Schitzophrenia?
Cute girl, sad story.
I guess her brains were lost through the hole where her nose was pierced...
I guess her brains were lost through the hole where her nose was pierced...
I take back what I said.
Vitalikor is one that has been shown by the FDA to have been adulterated.
Holy Toledo. Can’t believe he’s 20, and going for those items.
If I think back to my, shall we say, physical feelings and reactions at that age, I can just say that I would have had no need or desire for anything in that area at that age.
Something else is going on with this guy.
The only thing I desired at 20 was the ability to better focus on baseball.
"Jitney," what in the World is that?
illegal taxi
I knew that I had seen that smile.
How little I miss those commercials.
I agree. It had to be very traumatic.
He wanted to be known as Bigus Dickus.
“But Vicodin, Oxycontin, & Acetominophen are safe!”
Oxy is a killer. Vicodin is Tylenol with a kick and Acetominophen is Tylenol. Vicodin was the only thing that kept me pain free. Now I live in pain 24x7. It sucks and no doctor can help me.
What’s so funny about Biggus Dickus?
Schizophrenia tends to manifest in early adulthood, with the stresses of that age and of being away from home thought to have a triggering role. The abnormality of taking male enhancement supplements to excess suggests that the young man was troubled to begin with.
I see what you did there!
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