


Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens. A few days after the bedbug incident, Cahalan. In a personal essay, she writes about what’s happened since. Brain on Fire is an account comprehensively, impressively reported of how this imperviousness was punctured in the most dramatic possible way. "A fascinating look at the disease uld have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life" (People), Brain on Fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic. Kp boken Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness av Susannah Cahalan (ISBN. Brain on Fire author Susannah Cahalan shared her month of madness on TODAY nearly 13 years ago. What happened? In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family's inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. Annotation: An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity. Brain on Fire (2012) is a memoir by New York Post writer Susannah Cahalan that details her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease, anti-NMDA-receptor. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is an autobiography and a memoir written by the American author and journalist Susannah Cahalan.
