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3 days ago | healthywomen.org | Erica Rimlinger

Schizophrenia and the people living with it are highly misunderstood. The name itself is misleading: Schizophrenia means “split mind” in Latin, but the illness doesn’t cause “split,” or multiple, personalities. One in every 100 people — approximately 2 million individuals in the United States alone — is living with schizophrenia, a condition that can significantly impact daily life and well-being. Here’s what you should know about schizophrenia.

3 days ago | healthywomen.org | Vidya Rao

When Katja Faber learned her 23-year-old son, Alex, had been brutally murdered, she felt a physical pain, as if her body had been hit by a truck. “From the moment that the police stood at my door and told me the news that he had been killed, I felt altered, not only emotionally, but also neurologically and physically,” Faber said. “It was painful to breathe; my nerve endings were on fire.

3 days ago | healthywomen.org | Vidya Rao

When Katja Faber learned her 23-year-old son, Alex, had been brutally murdered, she felt a physical pain, as if her body had been hit by a truck. “From the moment that the police stood at my door and told me the news that he had been killed, I felt altered, not only emotionally, but also neurologically and physically,” Faber said. “It was painful to breathe; my nerve endings were on fire.

5 days ago | healthywomen.org | Kim Ledgerwood

For a long time, Sabrina Riddle feared she’d never really know what was going on in her head. In 2011, she went to her healthcare provider (HCP) with what she thought was an ear infection. She was prescribed antibiotics, but they didn’t help. Nothing did. For months, Riddle walked around with intense pressure in her right ear, and everything sounded muffled — like she was underwater. When Riddle finally had an imaging test, the scan showed a large mass in her ear.

5 days ago | healthywomen.org | Erica Rimlinger

Schizophrenia and the people living with it are highly misunderstood. The name itself is misleading: Schizophrenia means “split mind” in Latin, but the illness doesn’t cause “split,” or multiple, personalities. One in every 100 people — approximately 2 million individuals in the United States alone — is living with schizophrenia, a condition that can significantly impact daily life and well-being. Here’s what you should know about schizophrenia.