When he was alive, Nathaniel Asselin possessed a brilliant mind and a great natural sweetness that people were drawn to.
But behind this kind, caring 24-year-old lay a secret and a day-to-day battle he fought since he was in fifth grade - Nathaniel had body dysmorphic disorder, a mental illness which causes sufferers to obsess and worry about a flaw in their appearance, one that may not even exist.
On 15 April, 2011, Nathaniel, from Pennsylvania, committed suicide because he could not go on living another day like the one before - the only thing he knew since he was 11-years-old.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152345/Body-dysmorphic-disorder-Judy-Asselin-tells-heartbreak-son-Nathaniel-24-killed-himself.html
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