Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Free Audiobook Download by Susannah Cahalan

In her personal memoir, Susannah Cahalan recounts her symptoms from the beginning of a brain injury that sent her on a month-long journey into madness. The story follows the first few weeks after she was attacked and then hospitalized in New York City, where her doctors were perplexed as to what they should do next.

Susannah Cahalan woke up one day and couldn't walk or speak. It was three days later when she suddenly had the strength to escape her mental hospital room into the outside world, but she didn't know why. She soon found out that a rare viral infection had caused her brain to swell and given her seizures, hallucinations, memory loss and personality changes. This is Susannah's story of trying to fit back into society after living in an institution for months on end.

The first time Susannah Cahalan's doctors misdiagnosed her, she started to have hallucinations that she was still 13 years old. When the doctors finally figured out what was wrong, they told her that no one had ever survived a month of her kind of sickness before. As Susannah's brain continued to disintegrate in the hospital, she realized that maybe no one had survived because there was no way to know how to help someone with such a rare disorder.

Susannah Cahalan is an ambitious 29-year-old journalist making a name for herself in New York City. She has been on the fast track since her days at Northwestern University, where she received a degree in psychology and journalism. However, one morning, Susannah awakes to find herself on the wrong side of her bedroom door with no memory of what happened to her. As she hits rock bottom and learns who she is and how she got into this mess, Susannah now suffers from uncontrollable seizures and hallucination while the doctors struggle to figure out what's going on.

When Susannah Cahalan was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder, she had no idea that her life would change so drastically. With much of her ability to think and reason gone, she didn't know what to do. One day, she tried taking a shower and realized how difficult it was for her to make simple decisions like who to trust or when to get help. Determined not only to figure out what happened, but also find a way for other people struggling with similar mental health issues, Susannah wrote Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness in an effort to bring awareness of the disease.

Susannah Cahalan is a journalistic consultant for the New York Post when she suddenly contracts an infection that leads to a severe psychiatric break. Her doctors are perplexed and quickly realize that her brain has become inflamed and is living in a completely different reality. She begins experiencing symptoms that resemble those of epilepsy, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Through this story, Cahalan explores how the brain works.