YouTuber documents her suicide attempt: Mentally ill French woman, 23, with 40 different personalities fights to fall asleep in Belgium… but doctors say they’re not ‘suicide’

A YouTuber suffering from multiple personality disorder documents her attempt to take her own life in a euthanasia clinic.

The 23-year-old French woman, who goes by the name Olympe, recently told her mental health channel’s 255,000 followers that she was “in touch with doctors” in Belgium, where assisted suicide is legal.

The content creator suffers from dissociative identity disorder, a traumatic condition that is often deeply distressing for those affected.

But Belgian doctor Yves de Locht, who was approached by Olympe, said clinics were not “automated euthanasia” and the process could take many months or years before someone could access assisted suicide.

It follows the controversial death of another 23-year-old with mental health issues who decided to end her life in Belgium last year.

Olympe, who reportedly lives with around 40 different personalities, first said in an Instagram post: “In the last quarter of 2023 I will use assisted suicide in Belgium.

“I am already in contact with the doctors.”

She added: “It’s not a debate. It’s my life. It’s a decision I made and it was hard to make.”

Olympe said she could no longer cope with the burden of her condition or its causes.

She said this included sexual abuse and moving between different foster families.

But Brussels doctor de Locht, who is believed to have been approached by Olympe, in an interview with Le Parisien, dismissed claims that talks were progressing.

He said the process could take months or years and Belgium was tired of being called the “death station” for France, where assisted suicide is illegal.

“I haven’t seen her medical record, but I’ve read her emails. she wants to meet me

“We don’t refuse to meet (people like them), but we explain to them that the process can take months or even years.

“This young woman announced the end of her life at the end of this year. This date is definitely not mine. I need a lot more information before I plan to meet her.

The young YouTuber has since emphasized that she does not want to be a “role model” for young people and encourages those with dark thoughts to “find people around them to lean on”.

Euthanasia – stopping or refusing life-saving treatment – ​​is legal in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and Spain.

Assisted suicide – which gives the patient the opportunity to end their life – is illegal in most parts of Europe.

While Switzerland allows assisted suicide, active euthanasia is not legal.

Although illegal in France, a citizens’ council has begun to discuss the country’s approach to end-of-life care in general and the legal status of euthanasia.

The recommendations will be presented to Parliament in March this year.

In the United Kingdom, aiding and abetting the murder of another person is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Olympe said she would radically change her content after negative internet attention

Assisted suicide brings many ethical complications to the definition of “rational suicide.”

The scientific community is somewhat divided.

48.6% of psychiatrists surveyed in 2019 opposed access to assisted suicide for those diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness.

Almost a third supported some access and just over 20% were neutral on the issue.

The authors said there is a growing number of psychiatric patients seeking suicide by doctors.

A 1994 paper concluded that the availability of assisted suicide may lead to higher rates of suicide in the general population, especially among young people, due to copycat behavior and destigmatization.

The authors of a paper last year emphasized the importance of assessing decision-making capacity when considering euthanasia.

This can be complicated by underlying mental illnesses.

Shanti De Corte, 23, decided to take her own life after her mental health suffered while witnessing the 2022 ISIS attack on Brussels airport.

Last year, Shanti De Corte, also 23, chose to end her life in Belgium, citing “filthy” mental illness.

Corte was traumatized when he witnessed the 2016 IS attack on the Brussels airport.

After undergoing psychiatric treatment and medication, she decided to take her own life in May 2022.

A neurologist later said the decision was premature as options had not been fully explored, but claimed he was overruled by the woman’s mother.

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