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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I shouldn’t have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn’t have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn’t have been able to write a book that did as well as it did, and that book should never have been made into a movie. Yet, here I am. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
