'It’s almost like a message ... that your efforts to get better and be better, it’s all for not,' Zachary Power says of the medical assistance in dying expanding to adults with mental illness. 'They’re facilitating and validating giving up.” SaltWire
On March 17, 2023, people who have mental illness as their sole medical condition and are over 18, can apply for medical assistance in dying in Canada. - UnsplashFirst of a two-part series about medical assistance in dying being expanded to mental illness in Canada.On that date, people who have mental illness as their sole medical condition, and are over 18, can apply for medical assistance in dying in Canada.
“The symptom of the disorder is to have suicidal thoughts,” he said. “It just seems really beyond comprehension that such a service would be made available to people who deal with a symptom of suicidal thoughts.” “It just seems really beyond comprehension that such a service would be made available to people who deal with a symptom of suicidal thoughts.”For more than 100 weeks, Allan has been demonstrating in front of the Confederation Building for better access to long-term mental healthcare in Newfoundland and Labrador.
An April 27, 2022, report from Henrike Wilhelm of CBC N.L. quotes an email from Eastern Health as stating, “urgent referrals for psychiatric services are scheduled within 30 days of receipt of the referral and wait times for non-urgent referrals range from one to 10 months.”According to psychologist and Canadian Psychological Association president Kerri Ritchie, if the person is found eligible, the law states those who apply for MAID must wait at least 90 days from assessment to procedure.
“What this is doing is looking at mental illness in the same way that they looked at physical illness when MAID first came into practice and saying we can consider that mental illness … can be just as severe and just as disabling,” Ritchie said.It’s no surprise the conversation about MAID and mental illness is proving to be difficult, because it speaks to the core of who we are as humans, Ritchie said.And given that it’s not yet available, there is still a lot of uncertainty and questions.
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