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Euthanasia for AUDHD people
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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I'm not a doctor, but I don't think you'll have much luck finding one to help you with that. The legality behind physician-assisted suicide will definitely vary by country, but I'm pretty sure no doctor will go through with it over a mental health concern. Maybe if you had like a traumatic brain injury that made you unable to care for yourself, but that's technically a physical health issue
This statement is reason enough to prevent a doctor from killing you. If you don't want to die, they won't make it happen - consent is super important for something that grave. Suicidality is also very often a temporary thing, some day you might change your mind. There's a reason that euthanasia is used almost exclusively for the terminally ill.
I'm sorry you're struggling. The specter of homelessness hangs over my head too, and I often think I'd rather be dead than have to deal with that. But every time I've almost died I really didn't want it to happen.
You probably should still talk to a doctor about this. If you'd rather kill yourself than live without support then that should help illustrate the severity of your disability. Not knowing what country you're currently in, I can't tell you what support is available to you - but there's almost certainly something that can be done to help you.
Thank you but if I had to choose, I rather die than be homeless. There's nothing wrong with homeless people and lots of them are great people but I know if I was homeless I'd really suffer from overwhelm and likely open myself up to rape/ torture so I prefer to die. Is that enough reason for a doctor to allow euthanasia? Because otherwise I will have to do it myself and that's really scary.
In my home country, Australia, I've been to non-profit organisations to ask for help with admin work you need to do to be able to receive government money, which I really struggle with to the point I want to commit suicide. But after helping me once they said they could not help me again, and can only help me find housing. But I was already living in my car at that point and didn't need them to help me with that.
Then after a suicide attempt in Australia, the next day, I was arrested based on false accusations someone else made but even though they weren't true, I still had to go to court etc and almost died in the process because it was so overwhelming.
So no, unfortunately there is no such thing as support in my home country, my only option is to die when I run out of money unless I want to go through more torture.