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Manguso's account of her battle with CIDP during her first year of grad school. CIDP is essentially (though not precisely) a rapidly cycling chronic form of Guillain-Barre. Imagine a virulent autoimmune illness attacking your nervous system and arresting movement (including eventually breathing) accompanied by suicidal depression caused by either the disease or the treatment and exacerbated by a hellish reality.