Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan was a vibrant twenty-four-year old young woman who lived in New York City and worked as a reporter for the New York Post when she was afflicted with a rare condition known as anti-NMDAS-receptor encephalitis. It was condition that sparked her own antibodies to attack the receptors of her brain. In fundamental terms, her brain was on fire and she was being attacked by her own antibodies that were determined to destroy her.

Susannah's month-long journey into madness began when she noticed two bug bites. She was sure that they were bedbugs and had her apartment sprayed even though the exterminator assured her that there were no bedbugs. Later she learned that a fear of insects was a sign of the kind of paranoia that was associated with her condition. She began to become more paranoid and began to hallucinate - her hallucinations were more...