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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Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.
The brain is the black box: the final frontier.
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.
I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.
Some people say how they'd like to live in different eras. Not me.
Be your own advocate.
To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.
It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.
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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