Wow, once I started, I could not put it down. This book is excellent. I experienced Susannah’s confusion, fear, and incident by incident descent into the hell that followed the onset of her strange illness. A perfectly normal young woman, she is suddenly exhibiting some not so perfect behavior. The ...
Excellent first-person illness narrative. Raised a couple of questions in my mind: Why do we feel differently about someone who was crazy but turns out to have a proven physical cause than about someone who is crazy _without_ a proven physical cause? What is our core identity, if there is such a thi...
Rating = 3.5 starsThe most amazing thing about this book was that she was able to write it at all, given her descent into non-functionality. She is a lucky young woman indeed, in so many many ways.For personal reasons, I'm not going to write a proper review of this book. What I have to say would mos...
I just couldn't stop reading - I was so intrigued by what was happening and how it would play out that the book just pulled me along - "one more chapter, then I'll go to bed." Couldn't help comparing it to House - what happened to the author would be tailor-made for a House episode!
This book is a great page-turner, and I finished it in two sittings. It is really amazing that Cahalan was able to piece together much of what happened to her afterwards, considering she had little recollection of what happened. The book brings up the point that medicine doesn't always have the righ...
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is the author's, Susannah Cahalan's, attempt to reconstruct a month of her life she lost from a major brain injury. She begins as a happy, normal 24-year-old with a steady job and boyfriend when her world unravels, at first because she thinks she has bedbugs in her...
A very good account of physiologically triggered psychosis and dementia that illustrates the importance of good clinical interviewing to determine etiology and, therefore, appropriate treatment. As Cahalan points out, without a good differential diagnostic process, she probably would have wound up o...
A personal look at the descent into catatonia and the crawl back out. Brain on Fire shows both the great achievements of modern medicine and the many pitfalls that still plague it, especially in matters of the mind. Well written and insightful.
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