A review by westonculture
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

3.0

I'm not sure which aspect of this book I found more frightening: that our body/brain can so suddenly attack itself or the level of misdiagnosis when a person presents with the symptoms? Probably the latter as the book left me with the thought: how many people with this condition (anti-NMDA autoimmune encephalitis) are stuck in psych wards or living doped to the gills because they've been misdiagnosed with a mental illness?