Susannah Cahalan

And a physician came up to me after and said, we have a case here of a woman who has almost the same profile as you, presented the same. But the big difference between us was that she had been there for about two years. I followed up with him. He tested her, her spinal fluid and found out that, yes, indeed, she did have autoimmune encephalitis.

But the big difference was that amount of time had a huge effect on her brain. And he actually used the words he said that she probably would not progress cognitively past a two year old. Oh, my God. I mean, people do die. And, you know, my physician and the physician who discovered the illness, Dr. Joseph Dalmau, believes that it has been around for as long as humankind has.

But the big difference was that amount of time had a huge effect on her brain. And he actually used the words he said that she probably would not progress cognitively past a two year old. Oh, my God. I mean, people do die. And, you know, my physician and the physician who discovered the illness, Dr. Joseph Dalmau, believes that it has been around for as long as humankind has.

But the big difference was that amount of time had a huge effect on her brain. And he actually used the words he said that she probably would not progress cognitively past a two year old. Oh, my God. I mean, people do die. And, you know, my physician and the physician who discovered the illness, Dr. Joseph Dalmau, believes that it has been around for as long as humankind has.

So this was a misdiagnosis throughout history.

So this was a misdiagnosis throughout history.

So this was a misdiagnosis throughout history.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Hmm.

What a question. What a beautiful question. And so, I mean, I think you're onto something there. It's so hard for me to genuinely access the person I was before and compare that. But I do feel to talk in this kind of, you know, non-rationalist way, but when you cross a line, whether you want to call it another realm, another state of consciousness. You know, I had out-of-body experiences. Really?

What a question. What a beautiful question. And so, I mean, I think you're onto something there. It's so hard for me to genuinely access the person I was before and compare that. But I do feel to talk in this kind of, you know, non-rationalist way, but when you cross a line, whether you want to call it another realm, another state of consciousness. You know, I had out-of-body experiences. Really?

What a question. What a beautiful question. And so, I mean, I think you're onto something there. It's so hard for me to genuinely access the person I was before and compare that. But I do feel to talk in this kind of, you know, non-rationalist way, but when you cross a line, whether you want to call it another realm, another state of consciousness. You know, I had out-of-body experiences. Really?

I saw myself from above. You did? I did. I saw myself on the television. I saw floating eyes looking at me. I mean, I had, at one point, I felt I was so powerful. I had the ability to kind of mess with time. I had really strange altered states, but profound altered states. And not all of them, most of them extremely negative, but not all of them.

I saw myself from above. You did? I did. I saw myself on the television. I saw floating eyes looking at me. I mean, I had, at one point, I felt I was so powerful. I had the ability to kind of mess with time. I had really strange altered states, but profound altered states. And not all of them, most of them extremely negative, but not all of them.

I saw myself from above. You did? I did. I saw myself on the television. I saw floating eyes looking at me. I mean, I had, at one point, I felt I was so powerful. I had the ability to kind of mess with time. I had really strange altered states, but profound altered states. And not all of them, most of them extremely negative, but not all of them.

And I think just so much of what Brain on Fire was, was an urge and a desire to like harness it and to explain it. This can be explained through neuroscience. We can understand that this part of the brain can create hallucinations. So this is not me. It's something that happened to me. I think in a lot of ways, it was a way of like moving away from that kind of openness because It was scary.

And I think just so much of what Brain on Fire was, was an urge and a desire to like harness it and to explain it. This can be explained through neuroscience. We can understand that this part of the brain can create hallucinations. So this is not me. It's something that happened to me. I think in a lot of ways, it was a way of like moving away from that kind of openness because It was scary.

And I think just so much of what Brain on Fire was, was an urge and a desire to like harness it and to explain it. This can be explained through neuroscience. We can understand that this part of the brain can create hallucinations. So this is not me. It's something that happened to me. I think in a lot of ways, it was a way of like moving away from that kind of openness because It was scary.

And I wanted to kind of assert my sanity in some way. Right. You know, we met at the New York Post tabloid news reporters. You want people to take you seriously? You know, so putting that book out was a way of saying, no, no, no, I'm good. I'm not mentally ill. I have this autoimmune disease and I'm back on solid ground.