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Dennis Schouten (28) will release a book on April 2 in which he talks about his wish not to live anymore. “I don’t want to sit through this ride anymore,” the Gossip creator writes on Instagram. ‘I feel ashamed of people who want to live, are seriously ill and who no longer have this option. But, I don’t feel obligated to live.’
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“Feelings of emptiness, loneliness and unrest prevail”
‘I have been struggling with life for years. On paper I have a very good life, but in practice I rarely feel happy,” Dennis writes. ‘Feelings of emptiness, loneliness and unrest prevail. In recent years, these negative feelings – which cost a lot of energy – have worsened. I know they’re wrong, but I can’t get them out of my body.’
Dennis says he has tried everything: medication, psychologists and a move back to Enschede. Nothing helped him. “It is likely that years of experimenting with medication during my adolescence damaged certain things in my head. I have since resigned myself to it,” continues the presenter, who wants to live for a few more years “to benefit everything and everyone that is dear to me.” to leave behind. ‘After that I take control of my own life.’
Dennis tells his story in the book Dennis Schouten: Damaged on the way to death. The biography was written by Andries Jelle de Jong and will be available in bookstores from April 2.
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