Schizophrenic man, 52, cuts off his entire PENIS and flushes it down the toilet ‘after voices in his head warned he would face dire consequences if he didn’t’
- The unknown man from India went to the hospital 16 hours after being untied
- The 52-year-old was left with a stump after the psychological episode
A schizophrenic man chopped off his penis with a kitchen knife and then flushed it down the toilet.
Surgeons in India shared gory details of the incident in a medical journal, telling how the unidentified 52-year-old left a punch.
The man, who had stopped taking his medication, did not arrive at the hospital until 16 hours after amputating himself.
Medics said the Pune man had “no suicidal intentions.”
However, he attributed his action to voices in his head telling him to cut his penis or face dire consequences.
The unidentified 52-year-old from Pune in western India received a punch following the psychological episode. But doctors who treated him said he only went to the hospital after being detached for 16 hours
In the Open Journal of Clinical and Medical Case Reports, doctors at Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College in Pune write that his scrotal skin has detached from the root of the penis.
Medics rushed the man to the operating room to clean his wound.
He was given general anesthesia to knock him out so surgeons could operate on the stump.
After seven days in the hospital, the man was discharged.
Checkups 20 days after surgery showed the “stump was healing well,” medics also said.
The man reported no other complications and was able to urinate.
They wrote in the journal that penile self-injury—also known as Klingsor syndrome—is a “rare form of physical self-harm arising from psychological anomalies.”
They added, “In addition to presenting as a surgical emergency, it also has the potential to exacerbate the patient’s psychological distress and self-care challenges.”
Klingsor syndrome was first described in the medical literature in the 1990s and has been rarely documented since then, with fewer than 30 official reports.
Patients who perform such an act normally suffer from psychiatric disorders, hallucinations or drug abuse.
Doctors can reattach penises if they are properly preserved, presented early, and the wound is not too contaminated or mutilated.
People who have had successful reattachment surgery can urinate normally and in some cases may even have an erection.
The date of the incident was not disclosed in the report. Doctors have not revealed how much blood the man lost, nor how he stopped bleeding.