Amanda Young, a 39-year-old fitness instructor in Brooklyn, lives with Trigeminal Neuralgia. It’s a disorder that causes facial pain so intense it’s commonly referred to as a the “suicide disease,” because many who live with the condition take their own lives rather than live with the pain.
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Living With The World’s Most Painful Disease | MSNBC
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