Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Brain on Fire
My month of Madness.
Susannah Cahalan
4 stars.
Susanah Cahalan had a career, a boyfriend, and an apartment in the greatest city in the world. She wrote for the New York Post and at 24, was living the life she wanted…
And then one day she wakes up in a hospital room, strapped to a bed with a tag saying “Flight Risk.”
She has no idea how she got there but this is only the beginning of a harrowing journey through neurological disorders masquerading as mental illness….and a disease that was largely unheard of in 2009…
Susanah paints a picture of her lost memory through her dad’s journal and security recording of her treatment sessions…the person she sees, she does not recognize…she doesn’t even remember who this person is…retracing her journey brings her face to face with how close she was to succumbing to this…
And if not for a great catch by a real-life Dr. House…she might have died…
This is a naked and honest memoir chronicling the lost time that the autoimmune disease took from her…
The official name for it is autoimmune encephalitis.
And the book she has written has helped other people . The 10 years later section (for the 10-year edition) answers some of the questions a reader might have… her book was used to clue other doctors into spotting this…
Good read, quick read.





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