I'm mentally ill. If I commit suicide, will they pray for me?translated

Reader question:

Is it possible to pray for a person who has committed suicide due to mental illness? Will he go to hell for this? I have been seriously ill since I was 7 years old and there is no cure. Sometimes I fall into an inadequate state of acute delirium with hallucinations. There have already been cases when I harmed myself in this state. I pray if the psychosis is just getting worse, but it only delays it for a couple of hours (for which I am also grateful to God). Please don’t tell me to pray for healing, I already know and do that. Just answer, if I, God forbid, die, what will happen to me? Will my family be able to pray for me? If I go to hell and cannot be prayed for, I want to know in advance. Thank you for your answer.

Daria

Priest's answer:

Archpriest Andrey EFANOV

God bless you, dear Daria!

At home, you can pray for the repose of any person - of any religion, even those who died under any circumstances.

Church commemoration is possible only for Orthodox Christians who did not commit suicide in their right mind. Sin is precisely the rational choice of a person who is aware of what he is doing. Therefore, until the age of 7, we do not confess to children: they are not yet fully aware of the fact that...