In a video posted on Instagram, Youtubeuse Olympe, 22, announced her decision to resort to assisted suicide.
“Me, my life, I only feel it as ‘I suffer’. There are no moments that I appreciate.” It was with these harsh words that Olympe, 22, announced her choice. On Wednesday January 11, 2023, the young youtuber from Amiens announced on Instagram that she had chosen euthanasia. “In the last quarter of 2023, I will have recourse to assisted suicide in Belgium. I am already in contact with the doctors“, she confided, her throat knotted. “It’s my life, it’s a decision I made, which was difficult to make. (…) Even if I am a very resilient person, I have my limits, like any human, and my limits have been pushed to their extreme for years. I am very tired“, she continued.
Suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID), Olympe made herself known to the general public in January 2022 by testifying on the program It starts todayon France 2. She then explained that she lived with about fifteen“quirks”other personalities born from terrible trauma and able to take control of his body. “I have 12 known alters, of which we are fully aware, but according to our psychologist and our psychiatrist, we are approximately 40.“, she confided to Faustine Bollaert, explaining that one of them had tried to end his life. “I have a Quirk that carries a lot of traumatic memories because our life has been almost 20 years of continuous trauma, she confided. One of these alters (…) tried to kill us because he couldn’t take it anymore.”
“I am not closed to something (…) making me change my mind”
This suffering linked to DID, these traumas, Olympe confides that she no longer has the strength to bear them. “The main reason is that I am exhausted. (…), she surrenders. You can’t know because you haven’t lived my life. You may not necessarily understand my decision and I am not asking you to understand it. (…) I am very tired and I do not tell anyone, anyone, that this is the solution, and I do not wish anyone on this earth to have one day to think about it.
Nevertheless, Olympe does not close the door to another outcome. She explains havingasked that we” him “leave timeto give life one last chance. “I still want to enjoy certain things and (…) I’m not closed to something happening and making me totally change my mind, even if I don’t think it will happen”, she adds, explaining: “I don’t have a positive enough base of life that counterbalances strongly enough all the shit that I endure every day with my troubles, with my past, with my brain that does not work well.”
In 2022, it is estimated that between 1% and 3% of the world’s population will be affected by dissociative identity disorder.