Brain on Fire : My Month of Madness (Hardcover)

from LynnB

Wow! This memoir reads like a real-life episode of House. At 24, reporter Susannah Cahalan suffered a number of neurological and physical symptoms that teams of doctors were unable to diagnose. It seemed she would be destined to spend her life in a psychiatric facility, if she even survived. This...

from JLDobias

Brain on Fire:My Month of Madness by Susannah CahalanThis book scared the daylights out of me.There are so many parts of the breakdown here that read like regular parts of life.I quickly come to a realization that this is the reason to surround ourselves with friends who know us(well). People who...

from thewanderingjew

Wow, once I started, I could not put it down. This book is excellent. I experienced Susannah's confusion, fear, and incident by incident descent into the hell that followed the onset of her strange illness. A perfectly normal young woman, she is suddenly exhibiting some not so perfect behavior. T...

from msf59

A young woman wakes up in a hospital, strapped to a bed. She cannot move or speak. She is wearing a wristband that says "flight risk". She is confused and angry. How did she end up in this state? In 2009, Susannah Cahalan was an energetic and healthy twenty-four year old. She was a cub reporter f...

from kwskultety

Scary and quick read about a girl becoming psychotic because of a rare brain inflammation. Amazing to see her decompensate, almost die, and then slowly work her way back to a "new normal" again.