![]() ![]() One doctor chalks up her symptoms to her just drinking too much as she had one glass of wine a day and sometimes shared a bottle with her boyfriend. She frequently visits doctors to get answers, but rarely succeeds rather she is prescribed some medications (that she refuses to take). They quickly evolve into seizures and brief moments of manic behavior and hallucinations. She starts experiencing symptoms-brief headaches, ringing in her head, and slight dissociation-on her birthday. She lives in New York with her boyfriend. In the movie, Cahalan is portrayed as a very motivated worker and a very loving daughter. The basic idea of the movie is that a young news reporter suffers from many symptoms of a rare and almost unknown disease and is left to find the answers herself. ![]() This movie is available on Netflix, where I recently watched it. Adding further awareness, Gerard Barrett directed a movie based on this memoir entitled “Brain on Fire” released in 2016. Several years later, in 2012, Cahalan wrote a memoir, “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness,” which helped give more recognition to the devastating effects of this disease. She was the 217th person to be diagnosed with this catastrophic disease. In 2009, Susannah Cahalan was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a disease in which the body attacks the brain causing inflammation in its right hemisphere, altering reality and reactions to it. “The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.” ![]()
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