A Brief Summary Of Brain On Fire

Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan is a memoir retelling the story of the struggles of mental illness. Susannah Cahalan was in her twenties when she first started experiencing the symptoms of her rare brain disease. It took many tests and several doctors until the correct diagnosis of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis was found. Although Susannah’s memories from the hospitals are practically non existent, she used her journalism skills to piece together the story and write her book. In which Cahalan writes not only to show people the struggle of living through a mental illness, but also to shed light to the issues in the medical field and what needs to be improved. One point that Cahalan makes in her book is the importance of a doctor's bedside