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Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 555 With Susannah Cahalan Author Of Brain On Fire An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, BRAIN ON FIRE: is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity. One day in 2009, Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory—showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Yet only weeks earlier, she had been a healthy, ambitious twenty-four-year-old, six months into her first serious relationship and a promising career as a cub reporter at a major New York newspaper. BRAIN ON FIRE is Susannah Cahalan’s astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into lunacy and the brilliant, lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.