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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
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wow this fucked me up that bodies can decide to eat our brains
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An amazing medical mystery and journey -- but would have made a better medical journal article than full length book.
I could NOT put this book down! What a harrowing story of losing your mind and coming back from the depths of a hellish experience. I was held in suspense the entire time and although you know it ends well because it’s a memoir, you still can’t help but wonder what will happen. I highly recommend this book! A must read!
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This memoir scared the crap out of me. Susannah Cahalan takes you through her personal, and very terrifying, experience of what it is like to feel like you are losing your mind. It still amazes me how much we still have to learn about the human brain.
to completely lose yourself to something you can't control, a disease that originates within yourself and attacks without warning, is completely terrifying. cahalan had to completely rely on friends, family, and doctors to reconstruct what was happening to her - she has little to no memory of her time leading up to and just after treatment. closing the book was ultimately satisfying that she had answers, and painful that she was the exception, the rare diagnosis. as she said, how many other people have gone undiagnosed and simply were institutionalized and died? i love memoirs, and this was no exception.