The Bookworm says... Definitely. Brain on Fire -My Month of Madness- by Susannah Cahalan was an outstanding memoir of disease. Susannah has her life put together, living on her own in Manhattan, working at the New York Post. Then, she has a bedbug scare. She begins to obbsess over this bedbug scare. You could call this the beginning. There were never any bedbugs. Susannah begins to have extreme mood swings, and high anxiety, until one night with her boyfriend Stephen, she has a seizure. She is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, then schizophrenia, then alcoholism, and multiple other things. None of these diagnosises seem to make sense. She is admitted to the epilepsy floor of NYU, and is a very difficult patient. Many doctors join and depart from her case, but the most effective will be Dr. Najjar and Dr. Dalmau. Almost a million dollars are spent on blood work, PET scans, CT scans, MRIs, and more tests, to figure out what is going on with Susannah. It turns out all they needed to do was have her draw a clock. The doctors discover that the right side of her brain is inflamed. Through a brain biopsy and multiple spinal taps, it's confirmed that Susannah is dealing with anti- NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis. She is the 217th person to be diagnosed. She will survive this, but will she ever be the Susannah everyone knows and loves? This was an outstanding book, based off of an article written by Susannah entitled "My Month of Madness". Susannah is an inspiration for young women around the globe fighting anti- NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis.