Monday, January 1, 2018

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Calahan - 4 Stars

Susannah is a young, vibrant reporter for the New York Post with a promising future when things start going awry. She wakes up strapped to a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Now she was labeled as violent and psychotic. She has spells of catatonia and delusions, along with mysterious seizures. She has many tests that all come back normal and as things get progressively worse for Susannah, her family fears there may not be a cure for her, let alone a diagnosis.

This was an interesting story that took several different turns, as far as what doctors thought was wrong with Susannah. It's a scary story, too, knowing that something like this could happen to anyone.

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