Brain on Fire - My Month of Madness

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Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy 24-year-old. Then one day she woke up in hospital with no memory of how she got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis. This is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syrian-born Dr. Najar, finally proved that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain.