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Original Title:	Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
ISBN:	145162137X (ISBN13: 9781451621372)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York State(United States)
Literary Awards:	San Francisco Book Festival Nominee for Biography/Autobiography (Runner-Up) (2013)

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Hardcover | Pages: 250 pages

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Title	:	Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Author	:	Susannah Cahalan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 250 pages
Published	:	November 13th 2012 by Free Press
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Biography. Audiobook. Science. Health. Mental Health

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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.

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. 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. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Cahalan 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.

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"Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said," Susannah Cahalan writes,"it is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed." How else does one solve the puzzle of the devastating effects of illness, specifically illness of the brain? Some survive, maybe even thrive, while others remain in despondency. The true soul emerges through despair. The healthy brain is a symphony of 100 billion neurons, the actions of each individual brain cell harmonizing into a whole that enables thoughts,

Audio # 162018 Reading Challenge: about mental healthThis book was incredible! I can't even explain to you how out of this world such a diagnosis seems and I'm sure the author felt the same way. To know she was treated in time to become 90% better (within one month!!!! of falling ill) is a godsend and a testament to the medical profession-that out of 9 doctors that misdiagnosed her (not kidding!) there was one who never gave up. So in a way i dont know how I feel about that. But her case has had

Losing big chunks of your memory is a bit like losing who you are or who you thought you were. Because of a rare condition, Susannah Cahalan comes close to losing both her life and sanity before making a recovery. What I found most interesting about the recovery; however, is the question of whether we've come to the other end of the rabbit hole and are still who we think we are. How can we tell? Cahalan relies on friends and family to tell her she is who she was. This wasn't the focus of the

I used to occasionally watch a show called Mystery Diagnosis where someone would come down with the strangest disease with the weirdest symptoms. They would go from doctor to doctor being misdiagnosed every time. In the end, a brilliant doctor who specializes in the strangest ailments would correctly diagnose the patient with a rare disease that affects 1 in a billion people. This book is basically an episode of that show.Also, I am told that the show House was like that, but I never saw it.The

I took care of a patient with this tragic and intriguing disorder. Her complex and terrifying journey through this disease in ongoing. Over the course of caring for her, her sister mentioned this book. In this rare disorder, people often pass through a range of bizarre psychiatric symptoms that lead to catatonia and then often death as the body becomes unable to regulate itself, as with the patient I cared for in ICU. With the young woman who wrote this book, you see her pass through various

I found this book troubling. Not because of the medical mystery -- that was the most interesting of all. It seems that the book would be better written in the third person, by someone other than the author/experiencer of the madness. By her own account, she cannot describe what it felt like to have her brain be on fire. The book says she uses journalistic techniques to piece together. And yet these tidbits drop in without much sense of how they were discovered (except for the case of the

A must read for anyone interested in psychology, or neuroscience.Susannah is a successful 24-year-old reporter. She has a good relationship with her boyfriend, her divorced parents, and her little cat.Then she wakes up with a bug bite on her arm. She is convinced that bedbugs are infesting her apartment. She calls the exterminator to spray, even though he insists there's no sign of bugs.And what's with all this junk? Why is she holding on to all this stuff? She starts to throw away everything