6/10/2023 0 Comments Brain on fire by susannah cahalan![]() Doctors diagnosed her as bipolar, manic depressive, with her conditions of erratic behavior leading to fainting and seizures were frantically increasing at an alarming rate. Her life as she knew it, how she was leading it and loving it, was gone. A month that turned into more time erased, a life re-drawn into something maniacal. Pieces of each day began to fragment into moments that increased doubt in her own confidence and undeniable fear at the unknown of what happened to her, the question of what was happening in her body that plagued her, possessed her, but the most terrifying is that it appeared out of nowhere. Memories erased, speaking was impossible, moving was not allowed, nor was she able to even if she tried: she was strapped to the hospital bed. At 24 years old, just as she was truly making a name for herself in journalism in New York City, she awoke to find herself strapped in a hospital bed, completely unaware of what had happened to her. ![]() ![]() What's most frightening is Cahalan's complete inability to understand or control, what was happening to her. Brain on Fire, now a Netflix film starring Chloƫ Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, and Tyler Perry, is easily one of the most unnerving medical books I've read in a while. ![]()
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