Brain on fire novel6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Her hallucinations continued until the point where she believed that her father had killed her stepmother and that he was an imposter, taking the form of other people in order to gain access to Susannah and cause her harm. ![]() After missing a few days of work and experiencing strange feelings, she visited her doctor only to be told that she had mono or perhaps that she was drinking too much. ![]() Susannah had an interview with John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted for work, during which she could not concentrate or put together fluid questions. The first symptoms came with the thought that a bedbug bite had made her ill this first delusion was a sign of the strange experiences that would continue to grow increasingly more frightening in the subsequent weeks. Cahalan cannot recall many of the events during this time, but through her investigative skills as a reporter and impeccable records kept by her family and boyfriend, she was able to put together the pieces of her strange journey. Susannah experienced numbness accompanied by sudden seizures and hallucinations and became increasingly paranoid and combative. Susannah Cahalan chronicles her journey from a successful young reporter at the New York Post to a paranoid, seemingly psychotic patient at NYU medical center only a few weeks later. ![]()
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