Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

By: Susannah Cahalan

Published November 13th 2012 by Free Press

Category: Business

Pages: 250 pages

ISBN: 9781451621372

Description:
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 womanÕs 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 sheÕd 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 familyÕs inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didnÕt happen.