Susannah Cahalan
Hardcover | Pages: 250 pages Rating: 4.05 | 157137 Users | 12202 Reviews
Present Out Of Books Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
| Title | : | Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness |
| Author | : | Susannah Cahalan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 250 pages |
| Published | : | November 13th 2012 by Free Press |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Biography. Audiobook. Science. Health. Mental Health |
Commentary In Favor Of Books Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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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| 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) |
Rating Out Of Books Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Ratings: 4.05 From 157137 Users | 12202 ReviewsCriticize Out Of Books Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Wonderful, wonderful book. I'm a neurologist, and it's amazing to see a book written from a patient's perspective, especially one with a such a good outcome. The book progresses from the starting of the disease process and right up to the recovery stage. It's unnerving to read about the psychotic episodes, the complex partial seizures, the generalised seizures and ultimately, the catatonia. It must have been very frightening for both the author and her loved ones to witness all of those eventsYou could probably call this a great piece of investigative reporting. Unfortunately for me, it was instead labelled as a memoir, leaving me feeling exasperated and mislead. I guess I was hoping for something akin to the more enjoyable memoirs that I've read (I'm thinking The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, or even Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, which is not so much memoir as it is fiction based on memoir - beside the point). This was more like an excruciatingly long newspaper article,
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
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
Susannah Cahalan, a young journalist working at a great (ok not so great, kinda schlocky actually) metropolitan newspaper, suddenly notices things going awry. She starts having episodes of paranoia, becomes hypersensitive to sound, light and cold. She suffers from loss of appetite and begins having out-of-body experiences and wild mood swings. A tour of New York psych and neuro pros did not yield much more than a suspicion that she had been partying too hard. On the other hand, grand mal
I have to thank my daughter for referring Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness by Susannah Cahalan to me. An informative, scary and fascinating true story.Susannah Cahalan, a writer at the New York Post, recounts her months of battling an invisible illness. The author tells of her experience with a rare and recently discovered autoimmune disorder that causes symptoms such as seizures, psychosis, basically a descent into madness.Not a story I'm likely to forget.
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
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