Brain on Fire

Author: Susannah Cahalan
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 145162137X
Category: Medical

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Download Brain on Fire medical books for free.
A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records-chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all-showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: a healthy, ambitious college grad a few months into her first serious relationship and a promising career as a cub reporter at a major New York newspaper. Who was the stranger who had taken over her body? What was happening to her mind? In this swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing tr Get Brain on Fire our bestseller medical books.

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A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records-chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all-showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability Who was the stranger who had taken over her body? What was happening to her mind? In this swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing tr

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