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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) |
Susannah Cahalan
Hardcover | Pages: 250 pages Rating: 4.05 | 157137 Users | 12202 Reviews
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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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Ratings: 4.05 From 157137 Users | 12202 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
3.5 stars Susannah CahalanAt the age of 24 Susannah Cahalan was doing just fine. She was lively, talkative, and fun-loving; she worked as a reporter for the New York Post; she lived in an apartment in Hell's Kitchen; and she had a great boyfriend named Stephen. Then Susannah began to change: she forgot to prepare for an important work meeting; started to get migraines; felt compelled to snoop through Stephen's things; developed numbness.....then pins and needles. Before long these symptomsLosing 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 am the perfect audience for this book: a catastrophic thinker who worries about any and all sensational news. I put off reading this one for a good long time because I was afraid...then decided I had better read it, just in case. I could save a life with this information!I listened to the audio, which felt a little flat. It is impressive to consider that the author had to do so much investigative reporting to write her own story simply because she didn't remember it, but the combination of the
Phenomenal - undoubtedly the best non-fiction book I have read so far this year.This a non-fiction book in which Susannah Cahalan has documented a month of complete horror for herself and her family - a month when she went from being a completely 'normal' 24 year old woman to being strapped onto a gurney in a hospital with doctors and nurses contemplating admitting her to a psychiatric ward. It began with flu like symptoms which slowly evolved into constant paranoia - she experienced seizures
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
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
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
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