![]() ![]() Overwhelmingly, what she remembered from her disease was the fear and anger that it created within her. ![]() Through interviewing those closest to her, she was able to piece together what that month looked like. She had to recreate the time-line of everything that happened, gathering different records from the hospital to keep track of what happened and when. According to Cahalan, it was a "very dissociative process" to write about her experience with the disease. As she recovered from her brain illness, she decided to bring the same journalistic approach to writing her memoir, using fact and research as the foundation for her story. Personal life and career The writing of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Īs Cahalan was a journalist for the New York Post before she became ill, her editor suggested that she write about her disease and how it impacted her. ![]() Cahalan's work has raised awareness for her brain disease, making it more well-known and decreasing the likelihood of misdiagnoses. When she is not writing longer works, she works as a journalist for the New York Post. She published a second book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, in 2019. ![]() Susannah Cahalan (born January 30, 1985) is an American journalist and author, known for writing the memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, about her hospitalization with a rare auto-immune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. ![]()
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