![]() ![]() She worried that maybe her new birth control was causing the strange symptoms. The first doctor whom Susannah called was her gynecologist. An onslaught of new symptoms followed: headaches, nausea, and tingling and numbness in her limbs. Not long after, she became paranoid that Stephen was cheating on her. First, when Susannah found what looked like a bug bite on her arm, she became convinced that bedbugs had infested her Manhattan apartment. But in early 2009, she started to experience strange symptoms. Her relationship with her boyfriend, Stephen, was getting serious. But first, she faced a terrifying descent into madness.Įverything was going well for 24-year-old Susannah. With the help of one particularly talented doctor, Susannah eventually obtained a diagnosis and began the long road to recovery. Previously healthy, Susannah never guessed that one day she would wake up in the hospital with almost no recollection of her battle with a disease that threatened not only her sanity but her life. In her memoir, Brain on Fire: My Year of Madness, Susannah Cahalan recounts her battle with a rare, debilitating autoimmune disease that led to psychosis and, eventually, catatonia. ![]()
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