The Encephalitis Society is an important place where people who have all had similar (but always unique) experiences can come together, lean on others, and eventually move forward.

648 Likes, 33 Comments - Susannah Cahalan (@suscahalan) on Instagram: “Thank you to the University of Kansas Medical Center for inviting me to the great Midwest, reading…” Brain on Fire is a medical mystery drama starring Chlöe Grace Moretz, and it's about the very real and extremely rare disorder that struck journalist Susannah Cahalan when she was just 24. Posts about Susannah Cahalan written by leslie1218. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications. View positions held along with a brief bio. In the spring of 2009, Susannah Cahalan was the 217th person to be diagnosed with anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis, and this book chronicles both her ‘lost month’ before the diagnosis was made and her subsequent recovery. Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain.She writes for the New York Post. Susannah Cahalan had the bad luck of being a unique and baffling one: profoundly sick, deteriorating with dangerous speed, yet her MRIs, brain scans and blood tests were normal. Watch the C-SPAN collection of videos, access clips including recent appearances by Susannah Cahalan. O ne morning, Susannah Cahalan woke from dreams of bedbugs to find two red dots on the main vein in one arm.

Susannah Cahalan is a writer, known for Brain on Fire (2016), Efter Tio (2006) and The Jeff Probst Show (2012).

Ordered this darling little #typewriter pin from @shopladypins because I have such a crush on enamel pins and typewriters and blue/green.

Susannah said: If you’re lucky enough to survive such a devastating illness like Encephalitis, the one gift you can give back is to share your own story with the world and hopefully help others.