Brain on Fire By Susannah Cahalan

Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Psychology

Feb 29, 2024

Brain on Fire By Susannah Cahalan books PDF download from here. “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness” is a New York Times best-selling autobiography by Susannah Cahalan. Published in 2012, the book details Cahalan’s struggle with a rare form of encephalitis and her recovery.

In the book, Cahalan narrates her issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She woke up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she had violent episodes and delusions1. Her eventual diagnosis was made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories such as “partying too much” and schiz