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Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness (Paperback)
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Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness (Paperback)
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List price R327
Loot Price R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author
Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a
sudden and mysterious illness put her on descent into a madness for
which there seemed to be no cure 'My first serious blackout marked
the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments
of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be
the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy
twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no
memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks,
she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending
into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions,
hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could
control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted
about her life, and who she was, was wiped out. 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, Syria-born Dr Najar,
finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's
psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease
attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition,
thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through
history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others.
Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through
the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together
using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with
passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly
personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your
identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. 'With
eagle-eye precision and brutal honesty, Susannah Cahalan turns her
journalistic gaze on herself as she bravely looks back on one of
the most harrowing and unimaginable experiences one could ever
face: the loss of mind, body and self ... a mesmerizing story',
Mira Bartok, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Palace
Susannah Cahalan is a reporter on the New York Post, and the
recipient of the 2010 Silurian Award of Excellence in Journalism
for Feature Writing. Her writing has also appeared in the New York
Times, and is frequently picked up by the Daily Mail, Gawker,
Gothamist, AOL and Yahoo among other news aggregrator sites.
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