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'Brain On Fire' Details An Out-Of-Mind Experience
It's a cold March night in New York, and journalist Susannah Cahalan is watching PBS with her boyfriend, trying to relax after a difficult day at work. He falls asleep, and wakes up moments later to find her having a seizure straight out of The Exorcist. "My arms suddenly whipped straight out in front of me, like a mummy, as my eyes rolled back and my body stiffened," Cahalan writes. "I inhaled repeatedly, with no exhale. Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth through clenched teeth."
It's hard to imagine a scenario more nightmarish, but for Cahalan the worst was yet to come. In , the New York Post reporter, then 24, was hospitalized after — there's really no other way to put it — losing her mind. In addition to the violent seizures, she was wracked by terrifying hallucinations, intense mood swings, insomnia and fierce paranoia. Cahalan spent a month in the hospital, barely recognizable to her friends and fami
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Author details own delirium
Though “Brain on Fire” is written as a memoir, the tale of Susannah Cahalan’s fall into madness and ascent back to sanity is a horror story fit for any campfire.
In the book, Cahalan, a New York Post investigative reporter, chronicles the month when she suffered extreme medical trauma after getting a rare, and recently discovered, autoimmune disease. The disease’s name and its nature is the novel’s big reveal. Cahalan was only the th person in the world to be diagnosed with it since its discovery in
The narrative started in early when she woke up with two odd bug bites. Paranoia set in, and she insisted her apartment be sprayed despite an exterminator’s insistence that her living space was bug-free. Unbeknownst to Cahalan, this anxiety is the first sign of what was to come. She became dysfunctional at work, forgetting about meetings and botching stories. Following shortly were the intense mood swings and seizures
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