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Sometimes a medical condition does not have to be life-threatening in order to be life-destroying.

Small, persistent issues can become exhausting, transforming from minor annoyances

to something that totally upends your day-to-day existence.

And for the people in today's two stories, their conditions made their lives truly unbearable.

In the first story, an 11-year-old girl's persistent 15,000

cough a day struggle left doctors baffled and her mother desperate for answers. Despite countless

tests, nothing seemed to explain the chaos until one psychologist uncovered a chilling possibility.

In the second story, a six-year-old girl's first day of school would turn into a nightmare

when classmates began bullying her for this mysterious smell she couldn't understand.

Years of isolation and confusion would follow until a shocking discovery revealed an unexpected truth.

From Ballin Studios and Wondry, I'm Mr. Ballin, and this is Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries,

where every week we will explore a new baffling mystery originating from the one place we all can't escape, our own bodies.

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