United States, Journalist 1985
Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author, known for writing the memoir Brain on Fire, about her hospitalization with a rare auto-immune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. She has worked for the New York Post.
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The brain is the black box: the final frontier.
Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.
Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.
It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.
To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.
I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.
Be your own advocate.
Some people say how they'd like to live in different eras. Not me.
I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.
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