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Adam Maier-Clayton lives in constant pain and wants to die.
The 27-year-old business school graduate has battled anxiety, mood disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder since he was a child.
He says his debilitating pain feels like parts of his body are being burned by acid. Despite a host of treatments, some of them experimental, his agony has only worsened in recent years.
Fed up with the torment, Maier-Clayton wants doctors to help him end his life. But Canada's assisted dying laws, which came into effect last summer, do not apply to people with mental illness.
Maier-Clayton says the pain is constant, but it worsens with any kind of cognitive activity, including reading and speaking.
"I can't get through three pages of a book," he said. "Just to get through the first two would leave me with six hours of pain. I can't read, I can't write."
Doctors have not been able to determine the physical cause of his pain, so they believe it must be linked to his mental conditions.