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A review by atlevine
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
5.0
5.00/5.00
An absolutely terrifying read. What do you do when you lose sight of yourself completely? Your thoughts, your actions, your entire consciousness is not your own? It's hard to imagine something like that happening to Susannah Cahalan (a young, intelligent, successful 24-year-old woman), let alone yourself.
This book is a new favorite because the writing is incredible, the pacing is impressive, the subject is devastatingly interesting (rare diseases/psychosis), and I finished the book in one sitting. I truly could not put the book down. After I finished the book I immediately began searching for other books like it. But I have not stopped thinking about Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness since.
An absolutely terrifying read. What do you do when you lose sight of yourself completely? Your thoughts, your actions, your entire consciousness is not your own? It's hard to imagine something like that happening to Susannah Cahalan (a young, intelligent, successful 24-year-old woman), let alone yourself.
The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, one day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.
This book is a new favorite because the writing is incredible, the pacing is impressive, the subject is devastatingly interesting (rare diseases/psychosis), and I finished the book in one sitting. I truly could not put the book down. After I finished the book I immediately began searching for other books like it. But I have not stopped thinking about Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness since.