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Susannah Cahalan

American Journalist

Born: 1985

First History Me Own People You

Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison

We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we treated people with cancer like that. Just because your personality changes and your behaviour changes, all of a sudden you are put in a different category. Susannah Cahalan

You People Personality Cancer Problems Changes Mental Mental Illness Neurological Put Like Category Because Still Brain Behaviour Just Psychiatric Different Just Because Separate Your Illness Sudden Treated Imagine

My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my 'bowel releasing' schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure. Susannah Cahalan

Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more. Susannah Cahalan

Respect Moody Think Elusive Bit Hormones Magical More No Respect Make Chemicals Get Little Them Us Much Molecules

When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would wear and how much weight I wanted to lose. I lost my perspective. Susannah Cahalan

My diagnosis had been discussed in almost every major medical journal, including the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' and 'The New York Times.' Susannah Cahalan

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The brain is the black box: the final frontier. Susannah Cahalan

Black Final Box Brain Frontier

Before I was a reporter, I worked at a record store in New Jersey. Susannah Cahalan

Before Record Record Store New New Jersey Reporter Store Worked Jersey

When you want to write well, wake up at 5 A.M. Susannah Cahalan

You Wake Up Write Well Wake Up Want

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. Susannah Cahalan

People Doctor Think Comfortable Questioning Authority Need

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis. Susannah Cahalan

History First Diagnosed First-Person Person Center NYU Medical

Redheads feel hot and cold temperatures more severely than anyone else. Susannah Cahalan

Cold Else Temperatures More Hot Feel Redheads Than Anyone Anyone Else

The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first 'I love you's' - chronicled in my 2012 memoir 'Brain on Fire' - occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant. Susannah Cahalan

Love You Husband Fire First Our Memoir Restaurant Crowded Outside True How Occurred True Story Brain Story Psychotic Episode Deep

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I was at my sickest, I couldn't read or write. I could barely walk on my own or groom myself. The disease felled me physically and mentally - robbing me, briefly but intensely, of my wits, my sanity, my memory, my self. Susannah Cahalan

Myself Me Memory Walk Thought Doctors Own Destroyed Ability Percent My Own My Self Physically Mentally Could Write Self Robbing Read Wits Disease Intensely Regain Barely Groom Sanity Lucky Nearly Cognitive

To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing. Susannah Cahalan

Mind-Blowing See Movie Story Turned

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