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丿賲丕睾 賲卮鬲毓賱: 卮賴乇 賲賳 丕賱噩賳賵賳
爻賵夭丕賳丕 賰賴丕賱丕賳 氐丨賮賷丞 賵噩丿鬲 賳賮爻賴丕 鬲禺賵囟 賲毓乇賰丞 賲毓 賲乇囟 毓賯賱賷 賳丕丿乇貙 賮賯乇乇鬲 鬲賵孬賷賯 賲乇囟賴丕 亘丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞. 賰鬲丕亘鬲賴丕 毓賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 賵亘氐賮丞 毓丕賲丞 鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱廿氐丕亘丞 亘賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 爻丕毓丿 丕賱賰孬賷乇賷賳 賮賷 乇丨賱丞 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐 賵丕賱毓賱丕噩貙 賵丕賱兀賴賲 賮賷 丕賱鬲兀賯賱賲 丕賱賳賮爻賷 賲毓 鬲亘毓丕鬲 丕賱廿氐丕亘丞 亘賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇貙 賵賲賯丕賵賲丞 賲丕 賷爻賲賶 亘賵氐賲丞 丕賱賲乇囟 丕賱賳丕丿乇.
兀噩賲賱 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 賯丿乇丞 賰賴丕賱丕賳 毓賱賶 丕賱噩賲毓 亘賷賳 丕賱丨賯丕卅賯 丕賱毓賱賲賷丞 賵亘賷賳 賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞貙 賵丕賱丿賵乇 丕賱匕賷 兀丿賾鬲賴 毓丕卅賱鬲賴丕 賮賷 賲賵丕噩賴丞 賲乇囟賴丕. 賮鬲乇賶 賮賷 賮氐賵賱 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱噩賲毓 亘賷賳 賮賳 丕賱鬲丨賯賷賯 丕賱氐丨賮賷 賱賱亘丨孬 毓賳 鬲卮禺賷氐 賱賱賲乇囟 賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞貙 孬賲 乇丨賱丞 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賱賰卮賮 丕賱賱孬丕賲 毓賳 丨賯賷賯丞 賲丕 賲乇鬲 亘賴 禺賱丕賱 卮賴乇 丕賱噩賳賵賳 賴匕丕.
兀噩賲賱 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 賯丿乇丞 賰賴丕賱丕賳 毓賱賶 丕賱噩賲毓 亘賷賳 丕賱丨賯丕卅賯 丕賱毓賱賲賷丞 賵亘賷賳 賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞貙 賵丕賱丿賵乇 丕賱匕賷 兀丿賾鬲賴 毓丕卅賱鬲賴丕 賮賷 賲賵丕噩賴丞 賲乇囟賴丕. 賮鬲乇賶 賮賷 賮氐賵賱 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱噩賲毓 亘賷賳 賮賳 丕賱鬲丨賯賷賯 丕賱氐丨賮賷 賱賱亘丨孬 毓賳 鬲卮禺賷氐 賱賱賲乇囟 賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞貙 孬賲 乇丨賱丞 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賱賰卮賮 丕賱賱孬丕賲 毓賳 丨賯賷賯丞 賲丕 賲乇鬲 亘賴 禺賱丕賱 卮賴乇 丕賱噩賳賵賳 賴匕丕.
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First published November 13, 2012
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Susannah Cahalan
5听books2,565听followersSusannah Cahalan is the 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. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, and others.
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February 15, 2017
I took care of a patient with this tragic and intriguing disorder. Her complex and terrifying journey through this disease in ongoing. Over the course of caring for her, her sister mentioned this book.
In this rare disorder, people often pass through a range of bizarre psychiatric symptoms that lead to catatonia and then often death as the body becomes unable to regulate itself, as with the patient I cared for in ICU. With the young woman who wrote this book, you see her pass through various stages of psychosis--hallucinations, acting out, narcissisms--that baffle everyone around her until one day she has a seizure and is finally admitted to a hospital. The rest of the book is a race against time as her family and the health care professionals around her try to solve her mysterious illness and ultimately save her life in the nick of time. She considers herself incredibly lucky, and wrote this book to raise awareness about people elsewhere who may be misdiagnosed.
It's incredibly well written, and the author does a remarkable job about being open and honest, in even unflattering ways, to be true to the story and to present an accurate picture of just what this terrifying disease can do to you. It was a page-turner--and it was also all true. A fine balance of personal story blended with real science. Loved this book; couldn't put it down, and went back to work with a renewed sense of purpose.
In this rare disorder, people often pass through a range of bizarre psychiatric symptoms that lead to catatonia and then often death as the body becomes unable to regulate itself, as with the patient I cared for in ICU. With the young woman who wrote this book, you see her pass through various stages of psychosis--hallucinations, acting out, narcissisms--that baffle everyone around her until one day she has a seizure and is finally admitted to a hospital. The rest of the book is a race against time as her family and the health care professionals around her try to solve her mysterious illness and ultimately save her life in the nick of time. She considers herself incredibly lucky, and wrote this book to raise awareness about people elsewhere who may be misdiagnosed.
It's incredibly well written, and the author does a remarkable job about being open and honest, in even unflattering ways, to be true to the story and to present an accurate picture of just what this terrifying disease can do to you. It was a page-turner--and it was also all true. A fine balance of personal story blended with real science. Loved this book; couldn't put it down, and went back to work with a renewed sense of purpose.
May 18, 2022
Susannah Cahalan, a young journalist working at a great (ok not so great, kinda schlocky actually) metropolitan newspaper, suddenly notices things going awry. She starts having episodes of paranoia, becomes hypersensitive to sound, light and cold. She suffers from loss of appetite and begins having out-of-body experiences and wild mood swings. A tour of New York psych and neuro pros did not yield much more than a suspicion that she had been partying too hard. On the other hand, grand mal seizures can be so convincing.
Susannah Cahalan - image from Reader's Digest
Cahalan鈥檚 is a tale of survival. It is amazing, in the 21st century, how much we do not know about the human brain. Maybe the Star Trek people were wrong. Maybe the brain is the real final frontier. It sure seems like a lot of the weapons being used today are as old fashioned as spears and tomahawks. It is Cahalan鈥檚 journey through this hostile environment that is one of the main foci here. She was diagnosed by serious professionals as having partied too hard, as being bipolar, schizophrenic, psychotic and probably a few more fun things from the DSM manual.
Her story is almost like a mystery, with clues, red herrings, suspects, good guys and bad鈥ell, there are not really any bad guys, just uninformed medical pros. Good guys include a bf made of solid gold, and several of the docs who look into her odd case. Dad stands pretty tall as well.
One way you can tell the pioneers is by the arrows in their backs. In terms of what Cahalan is finally diagnosed with it is clear that many of those pioneers did not survive. There is a point in the progress of this particular disease (yes, they do find what ails her) beyond which the damage is too severe to step back. Cahalan comes through, damaged but recovering.
So what are we to make of all this? Cahalan鈥檚 is definitely a story that comes from the heart. She had to struggle to reconstruct events from her life, events for which she was present, in which she was even an actor, but events for which she retained no memory. Scary stuff. Her journey through the medical Indian territory was frightening and her arrival at Fort Diagnosis was uplifting. We learn something new about the world and the information has implications for a wide swath of maladies. Might it be that many who are diagnosed with autism, say, or schizophrenia, might have a treatable, biological, as opposed to psychological, disease? It might. Consider your horizon expanded.
There is a smattering of science in the book, maybe not enough for my taste, but certainly not too much, and what is there is simple and understandable, even for those of us whose medical expertise stops where the rules of Milton Bradley鈥檚 Operation end.
One crucial element here is the personality of the narrator. How we feel about Cahalan can affect our reaction to the book overall. Here we run into bit of a teratoma. I did not feel much for this particular person. While she is certainly bright, and writes well, I got the impression that she was not exactly the best possible human being. During one of her episodes, Cahalan threw repeated fits in a car, while with her family. It was like a spoiled child on steroids and meth. It is an appalling scene, yet seriously mitigated by the fact that this person is not well. However, it does make one wonder about how the manifestations of this disease reflect the underlying person. Her mother later recounts:
One aspect of this disease is that it can seriously impair memory, removing some that are there, and making it difficult to impossible to form new ones. Even though I was not all that taken with Miss Cahalan as a person, she is a good writer with a fascinating tale to tell, one with implications far beyond her personal journey. I will not soon forget it.
Review first posted - August, 2012
Published - November 13, 2012
=============================EXTRA STUFF
Links to the author鈥檚 , , and pages
Item of Interest
-----Teratoma 鈥� the reason for using that particular word is that many sufferers of Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis often have had such tumors prior to onset of the disease. CS did not. I fearlessly cut and pasted the ff from Wikipedia - A teratoma is an encapsulated tumor with tissue or organ components resembling normal derivatives of all three germ layers. The tissues of a teratoma, although normal in themselves, may be quite different from surrounding tissues and may be highly disparate; teratomas have been reported to contain hair, teeth, bone and, very rarely, more complex organs such as eyes,[1][2] torso,[3][4] and hands, feet, or other limbs.
Susannah Cahalan - image from Reader's Digest
Cahalan鈥檚 is a tale of survival. It is amazing, in the 21st century, how much we do not know about the human brain. Maybe the Star Trek people were wrong. Maybe the brain is the real final frontier. It sure seems like a lot of the weapons being used today are as old fashioned as spears and tomahawks. It is Cahalan鈥檚 journey through this hostile environment that is one of the main foci here. She was diagnosed by serious professionals as having partied too hard, as being bipolar, schizophrenic, psychotic and probably a few more fun things from the DSM manual.
Her story is almost like a mystery, with clues, red herrings, suspects, good guys and bad鈥ell, there are not really any bad guys, just uninformed medical pros. Good guys include a bf made of solid gold, and several of the docs who look into her odd case. Dad stands pretty tall as well.
One way you can tell the pioneers is by the arrows in their backs. In terms of what Cahalan is finally diagnosed with it is clear that many of those pioneers did not survive. There is a point in the progress of this particular disease (yes, they do find what ails her) beyond which the damage is too severe to step back. Cahalan comes through, damaged but recovering.
So what are we to make of all this? Cahalan鈥檚 is definitely a story that comes from the heart. She had to struggle to reconstruct events from her life, events for which she was present, in which she was even an actor, but events for which she retained no memory. Scary stuff. Her journey through the medical Indian territory was frightening and her arrival at Fort Diagnosis was uplifting. We learn something new about the world and the information has implications for a wide swath of maladies. Might it be that many who are diagnosed with autism, say, or schizophrenia, might have a treatable, biological, as opposed to psychological, disease? It might. Consider your horizon expanded.
There is a smattering of science in the book, maybe not enough for my taste, but certainly not too much, and what is there is simple and understandable, even for those of us whose medical expertise stops where the rules of Milton Bradley鈥檚 Operation end.
One crucial element here is the personality of the narrator. How we feel about Cahalan can affect our reaction to the book overall. Here we run into bit of a teratoma. I did not feel much for this particular person. While she is certainly bright, and writes well, I got the impression that she was not exactly the best possible human being. During one of her episodes, Cahalan threw repeated fits in a car, while with her family. It was like a spoiled child on steroids and meth. It is an appalling scene, yet seriously mitigated by the fact that this person is not well. However, it does make one wonder about how the manifestations of this disease reflect the underlying person. Her mother later recounts:
鈥淥h, and you were totally nuts. You walked into a restaurant and demanded food. Just demanded it. Although I guess it鈥檚 not too far outside your normal personality.鈥�Sorry, but it is tough to root real hard for such a person. Cahalan does offer a bit of perspective, with info on some other people who have been diagnosed with her disease. But there was nothing there indicating a correlation, or not, between disease-driven behavior and the personality of the sufferer. I suppose it should not matter. Even obnoxious people do not deserve such slings and arrows.
One aspect of this disease is that it can seriously impair memory, removing some that are there, and making it difficult to impossible to form new ones. Even though I was not all that taken with Miss Cahalan as a person, she is a good writer with a fascinating tale to tell, one with implications far beyond her personal journey. I will not soon forget it.
Review first posted - August, 2012
Published - November 13, 2012
=============================EXTRA STUFF
Links to the author鈥檚 , , and pages
Item of Interest
-----Teratoma 鈥� the reason for using that particular word is that many sufferers of Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis often have had such tumors prior to onset of the disease. CS did not. I fearlessly cut and pasted the ff from Wikipedia - A teratoma is an encapsulated tumor with tissue or organ components resembling normal derivatives of all three germ layers. The tissues of a teratoma, although normal in themselves, may be quite different from surrounding tissues and may be highly disparate; teratomas have been reported to contain hair, teeth, bone and, very rarely, more complex organs such as eyes,[1][2] torso,[3][4] and hands, feet, or other limbs.
April 1, 2022
鈥淭he brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.鈥�
Losing big chunks of your memory is a bit like losing who you are or who you thought you were. Because of a rare condition, Susannah Cahalan comes close to losing both her life and sanity before making a recovery. What I found most interesting about the recovery she details in Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness; however, is the question of whether we've come to the other end of the rabbit hole and are still who we think we are. How can we tell? Cahalan relies on friends and family to tell her she is who she was. This wasn't the focus of the story, but it intrigued me because how can anyone outside of ourselves know if our personality, our intelligence, our way of looking at the world has been altered.
Losing big chunks of your memory is a bit like losing who you are or who you thought you were. Because of a rare condition, Susannah Cahalan comes close to losing both her life and sanity before making a recovery. What I found most interesting about the recovery she details in Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness; however, is the question of whether we've come to the other end of the rabbit hole and are still who we think we are. How can we tell? Cahalan relies on friends and family to tell her she is who she was. This wasn't the focus of the story, but it intrigued me because how can anyone outside of ourselves know if our personality, our intelligence, our way of looking at the world has been altered.
November 16, 2012
I rarely read memoirs. Too often the author spends far too much time painting themselves in the best possible light and/or justifying their behavior. It is a rare and gifted author that can objectively describe a personal event without infusing it with strong emotions.
Perhaps Susannah was able to accomplish this huge feat due to the simple fact that she was unaware of herself much of the time that her brain was inflamed. She begins with the first noticeable symptom; a couple of bed bug bites that were probably hallucinations and escalates from there. Some of it remembers in bits and pieces right up until her major seizure which wasn't a pretty picture, nor did she try to paint it as such. Rushed to the hospital, her mind is blank for the next month until she is correctly diagnosed and begins the slow healing process.
I found Susannah's story absolutely fascinating. She fairly balances her experiences with simple medical terminology, cites doctors notes and tries to piece together a chronological picture of her sickness, interactions with those who love her, and hospital video. She describes her intense and insane mindset without previously establishing her basic personality. This is an excellent strategy as her writing style and brief "normal" clearly defines her as an intelligent and engaging young woman. The fact that she is confident enough to allow the reader to arrive at this conclusion endeared her to me all the more by trusting the reader.
Although I recoil when an author writes a book with an agenda, Susannah's agenda is simply awareness of the possibility that mental illness can be physiological in nature, caused by a virus or bacteria, changing the personality of a person to such an extreme that mental illness is diagnosed and the person spends the rest of her life in an institution. Susannah was greatly blessed by intersecting with a doctor who had recently made the discovery of this malady.
It's an amazing story and Susannah is an extremely gifted writer. This reader was stunned to do the math on Susannah's age. She was 24 when she fell victim to this illness and no more than 27 or 28 when she reconstructed the time period and wrote the book. I can't wait to see what else she publishes.
Perhaps Susannah was able to accomplish this huge feat due to the simple fact that she was unaware of herself much of the time that her brain was inflamed. She begins with the first noticeable symptom; a couple of bed bug bites that were probably hallucinations and escalates from there. Some of it remembers in bits and pieces right up until her major seizure which wasn't a pretty picture, nor did she try to paint it as such. Rushed to the hospital, her mind is blank for the next month until she is correctly diagnosed and begins the slow healing process.
I found Susannah's story absolutely fascinating. She fairly balances her experiences with simple medical terminology, cites doctors notes and tries to piece together a chronological picture of her sickness, interactions with those who love her, and hospital video. She describes her intense and insane mindset without previously establishing her basic personality. This is an excellent strategy as her writing style and brief "normal" clearly defines her as an intelligent and engaging young woman. The fact that she is confident enough to allow the reader to arrive at this conclusion endeared her to me all the more by trusting the reader.
Although I recoil when an author writes a book with an agenda, Susannah's agenda is simply awareness of the possibility that mental illness can be physiological in nature, caused by a virus or bacteria, changing the personality of a person to such an extreme that mental illness is diagnosed and the person spends the rest of her life in an institution. Susannah was greatly blessed by intersecting with a doctor who had recently made the discovery of this malady.
It's an amazing story and Susannah is an extremely gifted writer. This reader was stunned to do the math on Susannah's age. She was 24 when she fell victim to this illness and no more than 27 or 28 when she reconstructed the time period and wrote the book. I can't wait to see what else she publishes.
June 1, 2018
I used to occasionally watch a show called Mystery Diagnosis where someone would come down with the strangest disease with the weirdest symptoms. They would go from doctor to doctor being misdiagnosed every time. In the end, a brilliant doctor who specializes in the strangest ailments would correctly diagnose the patient with a rare disease that affects 1 in a billion people. This book is basically an episode of that show.
Also, I am told that the show House was like that, but I never saw it.
The plight of the author is enthralling but scary. Everything that happens to her will make you realize how easily our normal lives could be turned upside down. This is not a book for the queasy or someone with hypochondriac tendencies. The descriptions in the book are raw and terrifying.
One other thing I will caution, not really good or bad, it just depends on your taste, is that the book is very clinical. After reading I almost feel like I could go out and diagnose this condition myself. If you prefer your non-fiction in layman's terms, this may not be the book for you.
If you like mysterious and terrifyingly true tales of the human body turning against itself, and the plight of the innocent soul within, I expect you will find this book very intriguing.
Also, I am told that the show House was like that, but I never saw it.
The plight of the author is enthralling but scary. Everything that happens to her will make you realize how easily our normal lives could be turned upside down. This is not a book for the queasy or someone with hypochondriac tendencies. The descriptions in the book are raw and terrifying.
One other thing I will caution, not really good or bad, it just depends on your taste, is that the book is very clinical. After reading I almost feel like I could go out and diagnose this condition myself. If you prefer your non-fiction in layman's terms, this may not be the book for you.
If you like mysterious and terrifyingly true tales of the human body turning against itself, and the plight of the innocent soul within, I expect you will find this book very intriguing.
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July 24, 2024
5/5 鈽呪€檚
鈦€鉃� 饾拝饾拞饾拝饾拪饾拕饾拏饾挄饾拞饾拝 饾挄饾拹 饾挄饾拤饾拹饾挃饾拞 饾挊饾拪饾挄饾拤饾拹饾挅饾挄 饾拏 饾拝饾拪饾拏饾拡饾拸饾拹饾挃饾拪饾挃
i read this for my mom鈥ecause of my mom. my first ever memoir馃ズ
for years and years, my mom struggled with her health. constantly in and out of the hospital. she鈥檇 show up at the hospital not feeling well and leave with no answers. in 2016, my mom was finally diagnosed with crohn鈥檚 disease which is an inflammatory bowel disease. autoimmune diseases are often misdiagnosed.
susannah cahalan went through a similar situation, fighting a mysterious disease and no doctor knew what was happening to her. reading this was absolutely heartbreaking, but very educational.
i don鈥檛 want to make this too long because the main point that i want to get across is: you know your body more than anyone else鈥lways trust your gut instinct and keep fighting for answers.
my mom went years without knowing what she had and the doctors would often tell her that there wasn鈥檛 anything wrong with her at all, but what she feeling wasn鈥檛 normal. these doctors would make my mom feel as if she were going crazy, putting it into her head that maybe there really wasn鈥檛 anything wrong with her. well, my mom was so sick to the point where she almost didn鈥檛 make it so to the doctor who finally got her the help she needed and was able to correctly diagnose her鈥hank you馃ズ
鈦€鉃� 饾拝饾拞饾拝饾拪饾拕饾拏饾挄饾拞饾拝 饾挄饾拹 饾挄饾拤饾拹饾挃饾拞 饾挊饾拪饾挄饾拤饾拹饾挅饾挄 饾拏 饾拝饾拪饾拏饾拡饾拸饾拹饾挃饾拪饾挃
i read this for my mom鈥ecause of my mom. my first ever memoir馃ズ
for years and years, my mom struggled with her health. constantly in and out of the hospital. she鈥檇 show up at the hospital not feeling well and leave with no answers. in 2016, my mom was finally diagnosed with crohn鈥檚 disease which is an inflammatory bowel disease. autoimmune diseases are often misdiagnosed.
susannah cahalan went through a similar situation, fighting a mysterious disease and no doctor knew what was happening to her. reading this was absolutely heartbreaking, but very educational.
i don鈥檛 want to make this too long because the main point that i want to get across is: you know your body more than anyone else鈥lways trust your gut instinct and keep fighting for answers.
my mom went years without knowing what she had and the doctors would often tell her that there wasn鈥檛 anything wrong with her at all, but what she feeling wasn鈥檛 normal. these doctors would make my mom feel as if she were going crazy, putting it into her head that maybe there really wasn鈥檛 anything wrong with her. well, my mom was so sick to the point where she almost didn鈥檛 make it so to the doctor who finally got her the help she needed and was able to correctly diagnose her鈥hank you馃ズ
February 21, 2013
You could probably call this a great piece of investigative reporting. Unfortunately for me, it was instead labelled as a memoir, leaving me feeling exasperated and mislead. I guess I was hoping for something akin to the more enjoyable memoirs that I've read (I'm thinking The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, or even Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, which is not so much memoir as it is fiction based on memoir - beside the point). This was more like an excruciatingly long newspaper article, chocked full of too much medical jargon and theory to be enjoyable. I was really hoping for something witty, funny, anecdotal, interspersed with childhood memories maybe. Instead, it's about the most linear, dully-written thing I've read in a very long time. The story (actually, it's more of a soulless recording of events) starts with the onset of symptoms - we have no context for what the writer was like prior to this event in her life, and thus lose some of the implied contrast. The lack of description in the book (I'm a big fan of Hemingway's iceberg theory, but it's based on the assumption that there is a common human experience on which one can infer things that are not written - having a completely debilitating brain disease is not a part of that common experience, thus we need things spelled out for us) leaves a big divide between writer and reader. One of the things that I was always told about good writing is that the writer should show rather than tell. This book is all telling.
Having just finished this (in a day and a half because I wanted to move on to something more enjoyable) I'm really confused by the 4.08 欧宝娱乐 rating. This means it's been set between "I loved it" and "it was amazing". That just seems like a really big stretch for me. The excess of sentence fragments alone should disqualify it from being anything above a 3-star rating. The book markedly lacks any sort of style or writer's voice. It's very...singular.
I noted down two sentence that I thought were a bit ridiculous and more or less summed up the whole book for me:
When speaking about her mother, "She was terrified of even hearing about cancer on the radio..." I think the writer meant that her mother became "terrified" when she heard about cancer on the radio. Otherwise, she is describing an irrational fear of the radio.
"...everyone around me struggled internally to keep the superficial flow of words going while also concentrating on ignoring the obvious pink elephant in the room: my shocking state." Problem words: internally, superficial, obvious, "my shocking state". What a horrid sentence.
I'm so glad to be finished this.
Having just finished this (in a day and a half because I wanted to move on to something more enjoyable) I'm really confused by the 4.08 欧宝娱乐 rating. This means it's been set between "I loved it" and "it was amazing". That just seems like a really big stretch for me. The excess of sentence fragments alone should disqualify it from being anything above a 3-star rating. The book markedly lacks any sort of style or writer's voice. It's very...singular.
I noted down two sentence that I thought were a bit ridiculous and more or less summed up the whole book for me:
When speaking about her mother, "She was terrified of even hearing about cancer on the radio..." I think the writer meant that her mother became "terrified" when she heard about cancer on the radio. Otherwise, she is describing an irrational fear of the radio.
"...everyone around me struggled internally to keep the superficial flow of words going while also concentrating on ignoring the obvious pink elephant in the room: my shocking state." Problem words: internally, superficial, obvious, "my shocking state". What a horrid sentence.
I'm so glad to be finished this.
November 28, 2017
Diagnosed schizophrenic. Psychotic or the victim of the greed of drug companies?
The last book I read was , an experience of brain aneurysm and recovery. It was very so-so but the author's appealing personality added much to the book. I hoped that Brain on Fire, in the same genre, would be better. The author's personality didn't shine through, but this might have been a fact that she lost herself with her illness.
The illness, a rare, auto-immune disease of the brain seems to mimic schizophrenia and you could see this when it was full-blown. However, what was not clarified was when the author was nuts and when she was seriously ill. Before her illness it becomes apparent th at she might go to work clean and neat, but her apartment is filthy and she is a hoarder. Her first symptom was that of seeing a bed bug bite on her arm (given the state of her apartment you could see that her sheets probably hadn't been washed in months) but no one else could see the bed bug bite.
I did wonder about her boyfriend, why he had enabled her to live like a mentally-ill person before she actually was. Why hadn't he cleaned the place if she was incapable of it? Or got in a cleaner, we are talking very wealthy people here.
The author makes an excellent point in that many people living with 'schizophrenia' might actually have the same, easily curable brain disease, but the process of diagnosis was very expensive, although now one would hope that there are protocols to follow to rule it out before labelling someone psychotic-for-life. The treatment was beyond most people's means, and most insurance companies would have bailed out long before $20,000 a bag drips were given.
This is where I take issue with the expense. I was recently stuck in Florida unable to get home because of Irma and the damage to airports etc. There is a medication I need, I get it on prescription and pay $6 per pack. (I got some yesterday on the island, price-gouging, now $12). I ran out while I was in the US. Normally US pharmacists will not fulfil a non-US prescription and I would have to see a doctor to get a new one but emergency regulations let me have a month's prescription. $250. The pharmaceutical companies had Bush's permission to charge whatever
they pleased. So on my island they pharmacy's were making a profit selling the drugs at $6, and in the US the insurance companies were being asked to pay out $250 for the exact same medication in the exact same packaging.
So maybe people were being diagnosed as schizophrenics rather than having a brain inflammation because of the greed of the drug companies and the desire of insurance companies to put profits before health? Is this not a sick society?
The book was an ok read. Medical mystery solved. Pretty girl goes back to work and becomes celebrated author. It could have been better. The author could have collaborated with the brilliant doctor who diagnosed her to present a proper check list of symptoms and of tests to be done, so that other people might have a better chance of diagnosis. For this, it's just three stars.
I'm going back to Florida next week just for a little break from this awful post-Irma third-world living. If I move there, it would be cheaper for me to fly up to the Caribbean every other month to get the prescription than to get it in the US.
The last book I read was , an experience of brain aneurysm and recovery. It was very so-so but the author's appealing personality added much to the book. I hoped that Brain on Fire, in the same genre, would be better. The author's personality didn't shine through, but this might have been a fact that she lost herself with her illness.
The illness, a rare, auto-immune disease of the brain seems to mimic schizophrenia and you could see this when it was full-blown. However, what was not clarified was when the author was nuts and when she was seriously ill. Before her illness it becomes apparent th at she might go to work clean and neat, but her apartment is filthy and she is a hoarder. Her first symptom was that of seeing a bed bug bite on her arm (given the state of her apartment you could see that her sheets probably hadn't been washed in months) but no one else could see the bed bug bite.
I did wonder about her boyfriend, why he had enabled her to live like a mentally-ill person before she actually was. Why hadn't he cleaned the place if she was incapable of it? Or got in a cleaner, we are talking very wealthy people here.
The author makes an excellent point in that many people living with 'schizophrenia' might actually have the same, easily curable brain disease, but the process of diagnosis was very expensive, although now one would hope that there are protocols to follow to rule it out before labelling someone psychotic-for-life. The treatment was beyond most people's means, and most insurance companies would have bailed out long before $20,000 a bag drips were given.
This is where I take issue with the expense. I was recently stuck in Florida unable to get home because of Irma and the damage to airports etc. There is a medication I need, I get it on prescription and pay $6 per pack. (I got some yesterday on the island, price-gouging, now $12). I ran out while I was in the US. Normally US pharmacists will not fulfil a non-US prescription and I would have to see a doctor to get a new one but emergency regulations let me have a month's prescription. $250. The pharmaceutical companies had Bush's permission to charge whatever
they pleased. So on my island they pharmacy's were making a profit selling the drugs at $6, and in the US the insurance companies were being asked to pay out $250 for the exact same medication in the exact same packaging.
So maybe people were being diagnosed as schizophrenics rather than having a brain inflammation because of the greed of the drug companies and the desire of insurance companies to put profits before health? Is this not a sick society?
The book was an ok read. Medical mystery solved. Pretty girl goes back to work and becomes celebrated author. It could have been better. The author could have collaborated with the brilliant doctor who diagnosed her to present a proper check list of symptoms and of tests to be done, so that other people might have a better chance of diagnosis. For this, it's just three stars.
I'm going back to Florida next week just for a little break from this awful post-Irma third-world living. If I move there, it would be cheaper for me to fly up to the Caribbean every other month to get the prescription than to get it in the US.
August 10, 2017
Interesting and terrifying read.
February 24, 2025
"兀丨賷丕賳丕 鬲乇爻賱 賱賳丕 丕賱丨賷丕丞 廿卮丕乇丕鬲 毓賳丿賲丕 賳丨鬲丕丨 廿賱賷賴丕 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 氐睾賷乇丞. 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賰 賮賯丿鬲 賰賱 卮卅 貙 賮廿賳 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨鬲丕噩 丕賱賷賴丕 亘卮丿丞 鬲毓賵丿 廿賱賷賰 賮噩兀丞 賵賲賳 丿賵賳 鬲賵賯毓.
爻賵夭丕賳丕 賰賴丕賱丕賳 氐丨賮賷丞 賮賷 噩乇賷丿丞 匕丕 亘賵爻鬲 賮賷 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 貙 賰丕賳 賯丿 賲乇 侑 爻賳賵丕鬲 賵賴賷 鬲毓賲賱 亘賴丕 賲賳匕 亘丿兀鬲 賰賲鬲丿乇亘丞 賵賴賷 賮賷 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞 毓卮乇丞 賲賳 毓賲乇賴丕 . 賯丕賱鬲 毓賳 毓賲賱賴丕 " 丕賱氐丨丕賮丞 賲孬賷乇丞. 兀丨亘亘鬲 丿賵賲丕賸 兀賳 兀毓賷卮 賵丕賯毓丕賸 兀賰孬乇 廿孬丕乇丞 賵睾乇丕亘丞 賲賳 丕賱禺賷丕賱. 賲毓 匕賱賰 賱賲 兀毓乇賮 兀賳 丨賷丕鬲賷 毓賱賶 賵卮賰 兀賳 鬲氐賷乇 睾乇賷亘丞 賱丿乇噩丞 鬲噩毓賱賴丕 鬲爻鬲丨賯 丕賱鬲睾胤賷丞 丕賱氐丨賮賷丞 賮賷 噩乇賷丿鬲賷 丕賱毓夭賷夭丞 "
賮賷 兀賵賱 賲賴賲丞 賰亘乇賷 賱賴丕 亘毓丿 毓賵丿鬲賴丕 賲賳 賲乇囟賴丕 鬲丨丿孬鬲 毓賳 丨賰丕賷鬲賴丕 賲毓 賲乇囟賴丕 賮賷 賯氐丞 亘毓賳賵丕賳 ( 卮賴乇 囟丕卅毓 賲賳 丕賱噩賳賵賳
"賰賳鬲 丕賲乇兀丞 爻毓賷丿丞 賮賷 丕賱乇丕亘毓丞 賵丕賱毓卮乇賷賳 賲賳 毓賲乇賷 孬賲 賮噩兀丞 兀氐亘鬲 亘噩賳賵賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕亘 賵賳賵亘丕鬲 丕賱氐乇毓貙 賴賱 賰賳鬲 賮賷 胤乇賷賯賷 廿賱賶 丕賱噩賳賵賳 責
賰丕賳鬲 爻賵夭丕賳丕 鬲毓賷卮 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 丨鬲賶 丕爻鬲賷賯馗鬲 賮賷 兀丨丿 丕賱兀賷丕賲 賱鬲噩丿 賳賯胤鬲賷賳 丨賲乇丕賵賷賷賳 毓賱賶 丕賱賵乇賷丿 賵賰丕賳鬲 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 鬲鬲毓乇囟 賱睾夭賵 乇賴賷亘 賲賳 亘賯 丕賱賮乇丕卮 . 賵賲賳 賴賳丕 亘丿兀鬲 爻賵夭丕賳丕 鬲毓賷卮 鬲睾賷乇丕鬲 賰孬賷乇丞 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賵賮賷 丨丕賱鬲賴丕
" 賰賱 賷賵賲 賰丕賳 爻賱賵賰賷 賷夭丿丕丿 睾乇丕亘丞.....
賴賳丕賰 禺胤亘 賲丕 賮賷 . 兀鬲氐乇賮 賰賲丕 賷鬲氐乇賮 丕賱賲噩賳賵賳. 毓丕噩夭丞 毓賳 鬲賮爻賷乇 賲丕 賷丨丿孬 賱賷 "
" 賱賲 兀卮毓乇 兀賳賳賷 賳賮爻賷 賲賳匕 兀爻丕亘賷毓 貙 賱賰賳 丕賱丿賲丕乇 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 丕賱匕賷 胤乇兀 毓賱賶 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 賰丕賳 賷胤賮賵 丕賱丌賳 毓賱賶 丕賱爻胤丨 亘爻乇毓丞...
賰賳鬲 毓亘丿丞 賱賱賲丐丕賲乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨賷賰賴丕 毓賯賱賷 丕賱賲乇賷囟. 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賱爻賳丕 爻賵賶 賲噩賲賵毓 丕賱丕噩夭丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰賵賳賳丕貙 賵毓賳丿賲丕 賷賳賴丕乇 丕賱噩爻乇 丕賱匕賷 賷乇亘胤 亘賷賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀噩夭丕亍貙 鬲賳賴丕乇 丕賱賯賷賲 丕賱鬲賷 賳鬲賲爻賰 亘賴丕 賵鬲卮賰賱 賴賵賷鬲賳丕 賲毓賴"
賱鬲亘丿丕 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賵毓丕卅賱鬲賴丕 賮賷 鬲爻噩賷賱 賷賵賲賷丕鬲 賲乇囟賴丕 賵鬲胤賵乇丕鬲賴 .賵丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲毓乇賮 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 賵賲賳 禺賱丕賱 亘毓囟 丕賱鬲爻噩賷賱丕鬲 賮賷 丕賱賲卮賮賷 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賵兀丨丿丕孬 丨丿孬鬲 賲毓賴丕 賵賱丕 鬲賲賱賰 賴賷 丕賶 匕丕賰乇丞 賱賴丕 .
賰賲 賴賵 賲賴賲 兀賳 鬲毓乇賮 賱賲乇囟賰 丕爻賲丕賸 . 毓丿賲 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞
兀爻賵兀 亘賰孬賷乇
賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賱賲乇囟 賵丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 賲毓 丕毓乇丕囟賴 賵禺賵囟 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 亘賰賱 鬲兀孬賷乇丕鬲賴丕 賵兀孬丕乇賴丕 丕賱噩丕賳亘賷丞 賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 賲毓丕賳丕丞 兀禺乇賶 亘噩丕賳亘賴丕 賵賴賷 賲毓丕賳丕丞 賲丕 賯亘賱 鬲卮禺賷氐 丕賱賲乇囟 貙 丕賱丨賷乇丞 賵丕賱鬲禺亘胤. 丕賱鬲兀賱賲 丿賵賳 賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱爻亘亘 . 兀賳 鬲氐亘丨 賰賮兀乇 鬲噩丕乇亘 賵鬲禺囟毓 賱兀賳賵丕毓 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賲賳 丕賱賮丨賵氐丕鬲 賵丕賱兀丿賵賷丞 賵丕賱毓賱丕噩丕鬲 賱兀賳賰 賮賷 賲乇丨賱丞 鬲禺亘胤 鬲賳鬲賯賱 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 鬲卮禺賷氐 賱丌禺乇 丿賵賳 丕賱賵氐賵賱 賱賳鬲賷噩丞 . 賰賱賲丕 鬲賵氐賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 賱鬲卮禺賷氐 賵丕噩乇賵丕 賮丨賵氐丕鬲 賵兀卮毓丞 賵鬲丨丕賱賷賱 賵乇亘賲丕 亘丿兀賵丕 賮賷 賲乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賷賮丕噩卅賴賲 賲乇囟賰 亘鬲睾賷賷乇丕鬲 賵鬲胤賵乇丕鬲 賵賳鬲丕卅噩 賮丨賵氐丕鬲 鬲賴丿賲 鬲賲丕賲丕賸 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐 賱鬲毓賵丿 賱賱丨賷乇丞 賲乇丞 丕禺乇賶 賵丕賱禺賵賮 賵丕賱賯賱賯 .
" 賰賲 毓丿丿 丕賱亘卮乇 毓亘乇 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱匕賷賳 毓丕賳賵丕 賲賳 賲乇囟賷 賵丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱賲卮丕亘賴丞 賱賴 賱賰賳 賱賲 賷購卮禺氐賵丕 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賱賲 賷鬲賱賯賵丕 丕賱毓賱丕噩責 "
賴匕賴 賲毓丕賳丕丞 乇亘賲丕 禺丕囟賴丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇賵賳 賱賰賳 丕賱賲卮賰賱丞 丕賱丕賰亘乇 丨賷賳 鬲氐丕亘 亘賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 貙 賲乇囟 賱丕 賷毓乇賮賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇賵賳 賵賴賳丕 賱丕 兀鬲丨丿孬 賮賯胤 毓賳 丕賱丕卮禺丕氐 丕賱毓丕丿賷賷賳 亘賱 丕賱丕胤亘丕亍 兀賷囟丕 丕賱匕賷賳 乇亘賲丕 賱賲 賷鬲毓乇賮賵丕 毓賱賶 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 賮毓賱賷丕賸 . 賱賲 賷賮丨氐賵丕 兀賵 賷卮丕賴丿賵丕 亘兀毓賷賳賴賲 賲乇賷囟丕賸 鬲賲 鬲卮禺賷氐賴 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 . 賲乇囟 賱賲 賷丿乇爻賵賴 廿賱丕 爻乇賷毓丕賸 賵賲乇賵丕 毓賱賷賴 賲乇丕乇 丕賱賰乇丕賲 賱賰賵賳賴 賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 . 賵賱兀賳 丕賱賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇貙 賱丕 鬲賯丿賲 丕賱丨賰賵賲丕鬲 毓賱賶 鬲賵賮賷乇 丕賱丿毓賲 丕賱賲丕丿賷 賱廿噩乇丕亍 兀亘丨丕孬 毓賱賶 丕賱賲乇囟 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賶 賷賰賵賳 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賳丕丿乇 賵卮丿賷丿 丕賱睾賱丕亍 亘丕賱胤亘毓.
" 賰賱賮 毓賱丕噩賷 賲賱賷賵賳 丿賵賱丕乇. 乇賯賲 賷氐賷亘 丕賱乇兀爻 亘丕賱丿賵丕乇 賵賱丨爻賳 丕賱丨馗 賰賳鬲 賲賵馗賮丞 亘丿賵丕賲 賰丕賲賱 賮賷 匕丕 亘賵爻鬲 賵鬲兀賲賷賳賷 丕賱氐丨賷 睾胤賶 賲毓馗賲 丕賱鬲賰丕賱賷賮 丕賱亘丕賴馗丞. 亘丕賱廿囟丕賮丞 賱匕賱賰 賰丕賳 賱丿賷 毓丕卅賱丞 鬲賯賮 亘噩丕賳亘賷 . 賰丕賳鬲 毓丕卅賱鬲賷 賲丨馗賵馗丞 賱賯丿乇鬲賴丕 毓賱賶 丿賮毓 兀賷 鬲賰丕賱賷賮 賱丕 鬲鬲丨賲賱賴丕 卮乇賰丞 丕賱鬲兀賲賷賳 "
賵賱兀賳 賲乇囟賰 賳丕丿乇 賮爻鬲噩丿 氐毓賵亘丞 賮賷 賮賴賲 賲乇囟賰貙 賵賮賷 卮乇丨賴 賱賲賳 丨賵賱賰.
" 賴匕丕 爻賷噩毓賱賳賷 丕賱丨丕賱丞 乇賯賲 佗佟侑 丕賱鬲賷 噩乇賶 鬲卮禺賷氐賴丕 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳匕 丕賰鬲卮丕賮 丕賱賲乇囟 賮賷 毓丕賲 佗贍贍侑 賲 . 賮乇囟鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱爻丐丕賱 丕賱鬲丕賱賷 : 賱賵 丕爻鬲睾乇賯 丕賱賵氐賵賱 廿賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱禺胤賵丞 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賵賯鬲 賮賷 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賮賰賲 賲乇賷囟 賲氐丕亘 亘丕賱賲乇囟 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 鬲卮禺賷氐賴貙 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賱丕 賷鬲賱賯賷 丕賱毓賱丕噩貙 亘賱 卮禺氐 禺胤兀 亘賲乇囟 毓賯賱賷 兀賵 賮乇囟鬲 毓賱賷賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷 丿丕乇 乇毓丕賷丞 兀賵 毓賳亘乇 賮賷 賲爻鬲卮賮賷 賱賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞"
匕賴丕賳 賵賴賱丕賵爻 (乇丐賷丞 兀賵 爻賲丕毓 兀卮賷丕亍 賱丕 賷乇丕賴丕 兀賵 賷爻賲毓賴丕 丕賱丌禺乇賵賳) 賴賷丕噩 貙 爻賱賵賰 毓丿賵丕賳賷 貙 鬲卮賳噩丕鬲 賵丨乇賰丕鬲 睾乇賷亘丞
囟毓賮 丕賱廿丿乇丕賰貙 賲卮丕賰賱 賮賷 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 賵丕賱賰賱丕賲 貙 賳賵亘丕鬲 氐乇毓 貙 噩賳賵賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕亘 貙丕囟胤乇丕亘 賮賷 囟睾胤 丕賱丿賲 賵賲毓丿賱 囟乇亘丕鬲 丕賱賯賱亘
亘丿丕賷丞 亘鬲卮禺氐賷賴丕 賲賳 丕賳賴丕 鬲毓丕賳賷 賲賳 廿賳爻丨丕亘 丕賱賰丨賵賱 賵丕賱鬲賵鬲乇 丕賱毓氐亘賷 賱丕囟胤乇丕亘 丕賱賮氐丕賲 丕賱毓丕胤賮賷 孬賲 丕囟胤乇丕亘 孬賳丕卅賷 丕賱賯胤亘 賲乇賵乇丕 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐丕鬲 .
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" 丿賲丕睾賴丕 賷卮鬲毓賱 貙 噩爻賲賴丕 賷賴丕噩賲 賲禺賴丕"
賱賷鬲賵氐賱賵丕 兀禺賷乇丕賸 賱鬲卮禺賷氐 賲乇囟賴丕 賵鬲亘丿兀 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賵乇丨賱丞 毓賵丿丞 爻賵夭丕賳丕 廿賱賶 匕丕鬲賴丕 .
" 兀丨丿 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 毓賱賲鬲賳賷 廿賷丕賴丕 賴匕賴 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 賷賵賲丕賸 亘毓丿 賷賵賲 賴賷 賰賲 兀賳丕 賲丨馗賵馗丞 .丕賱鬲賵賯賷鬲 丕賱賲賳丕爻亘貙 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱賲賳丕爻亘 貙 賲爻鬲卮賮賷 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 丕賱噩丕賲毓賷貙 丿.賳噩丕乇 貙 丿.丿丕賱賲丕賵 .亘丿賵賳 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賲丕賰賳 賵賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賳丕爻 賲丕 賰丕賳 爻賷氐亘丨 賲氐賷乇賷 責
" 賰賲 毓丿丿 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱 毓亘乇 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱匕賷賳 銆� 鬲毓乇囟賵丕 賱噩賱爻丕鬲 胤乇丿 丕賱丕乇賵丕丨銆� 孬賲 鬲購乇賰賵丕 賱賷賲賵鬲賵丕 丿賵賳 兀賷 鬲丨爻賳 責 賰賲 毓丿丿 丕賱賲乇囟賷 丕賱匕賷賳 賷賯亘毓賵賳 丕賱丌賳 賮賷 毓賳丕亘乇 丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱毓賯賱賷丞 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷卮禺氐賵丕 亘丕賱卮賰賱 丕賱氐丨賷丨 ....
賷購賯丿乇 丿.賳噩丕乇 兀賳 鬲爻毓賷賳 亘丕賱賲卅丞 賲賳 丕賱賲氐丕亘賷賳 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 兀孬賳丕亍 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱匕賷 賰賳鬲 兀鬲賱賯賷 賮賷賴 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賮賷 佗贍贍侃 賱賲 賷購卮禺氐賵丕 亘卮賰賱 氐丨賷丨.
兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賮賵賯 丕賱乇丕卅毓貙 賰賳鬲 兀卮毓乇 兀賳賷 丕賯乇兀 乇賵丕賷丞 賵賱賷爻 賰鬲丕亘 . 丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 爻賵夭丕賳丕 廿禺鬲乇丕賯賷 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱 賵廿禺鬲乇丕賯 賲卮丕毓乇賷 賵卮毓乇鬲 亘賰賱 鬲胤賵乇丕鬲 賲乇囟賴丕 賵賮賯丿丕賳賴丕 賱毓賯賱賴丕 賵噩賳賵賳賴丕 賵賴匕賷丕賳賴丕 貙 卮毓乇鬲 亘賯賱賯 賲賳 丨賵賱賴丕 賵氐丿賲鬲賴賲 賲賳 鬲氐乇賮鬲賴丕 . 賵鬲禺亘胤鬲 賲毓賴賲 胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 亘賷賳 賰賱 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐丕鬲 丨鬲賶 丕賱賵氐賵賱 賱鬲卮禺賷氐賴丕 丕賱氐丨賷丨 . 賮兀毓乇丕囟 賲乇囟賴丕 鬲鬲卮丕亘賴 賲毓 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 賵禺丕氐丞 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賵丕賱毓賯賱賷丞 .
賱賲 鬲賰賳 賱丿賷 丕賶 賲毓賱賵賲丞 毓賳 賲乇囟賴丕 賯亘賱 兀賳 丕賯乇兀 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 貙 賰賱 賲丕 賰賳鬲 丕毓賱賲賴 丕賳賴 賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 .賱匕丕 鬲毓賲丿鬲 兀賳 賱丕 兀囟賷賮 丕爻賲 賲乇囟賴丕 賱兀賳 毓丿賲 賲毓乇賮鬲賷 噩毓賱鬲賳賷 兀睾賵氐 賲毓賴丕 鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 鬲卮禺賷氐 賵鬲禺亘胤丕鬲賴丕 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱 . 孬賲 亘丿兀鬲 賲毓賴丕 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賵丕爻鬲賲毓鬲 賱丨丿賷孬賴丕 毓賳 賲乇囟賴丕 賵賲卮丕毓乇賴丕 丕孬賳丕亍 丕賱鬲毓丕賮賷 賵賲丕 亘毓丿賴
賵賰兀賶 氐丿賲丞 毓馗賷賲丞 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賰 貙 賷丐孬乇 賮賷賰 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 亘卮丿丞 賵賷毓乇賷賰 賵賷鬲乇賰 賳丿亘丞 賰亘賷乇丞 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 亘丿丕禺賱賰貙 賵亘毓丿 丕賱賳噩丕丞 賲賳 賰賱 賴匕丕 貙 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳賰 賲爻鬲毓丿 兀禺賷乇丕賸 賱賱毓胤丕亍 賵賲爻鬲毓丿 賱賲爻丕毓丿丞 兀賶 卮禺氐 丌禺乇 賷賲乇 亘兀夭賲丕鬲 賲卮丕亘賴丞. 賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱丕賳賮鬲丕丨 丕賱卮丿賷丿 賲孬賱 噩乇丨 賲賸鬲賯賷丨貙 賯丿 賷鬲乇賰賰 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賴卮丕賸 亘賱丕 丨賲丕賷丞.
兀賰鬲卮賮鬲 丕賱丌賳 丕孬賳丕亍 亘丨孬賷 毓賳 丕賱氐賵乇 丕賳 賴賳丕賰 賮賷賱賲 亘毓賳賵丕賳 " brain on fire "
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爻賵夭丕賳丕 賰賴丕賱丕賳 氐丨賮賷丞 賮賷 噩乇賷丿丞 匕丕 亘賵爻鬲 賮賷 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 貙 賰丕賳 賯丿 賲乇 侑 爻賳賵丕鬲 賵賴賷 鬲毓賲賱 亘賴丕 賲賳匕 亘丿兀鬲 賰賲鬲丿乇亘丞 賵賴賷 賮賷 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞 毓卮乇丞 賲賳 毓賲乇賴丕 . 賯丕賱鬲 毓賳 毓賲賱賴丕 " 丕賱氐丨丕賮丞 賲孬賷乇丞. 兀丨亘亘鬲 丿賵賲丕賸 兀賳 兀毓賷卮 賵丕賯毓丕賸 兀賰孬乇 廿孬丕乇丞 賵睾乇丕亘丞 賲賳 丕賱禺賷丕賱. 賲毓 匕賱賰 賱賲 兀毓乇賮 兀賳 丨賷丕鬲賷 毓賱賶 賵卮賰 兀賳 鬲氐賷乇 睾乇賷亘丞 賱丿乇噩丞 鬲噩毓賱賴丕 鬲爻鬲丨賯 丕賱鬲睾胤賷丞 丕賱氐丨賮賷丞 賮賷 噩乇賷丿鬲賷 丕賱毓夭賷夭丞 "
賮賷 兀賵賱 賲賴賲丞 賰亘乇賷 賱賴丕 亘毓丿 毓賵丿鬲賴丕 賲賳 賲乇囟賴丕 鬲丨丿孬鬲 毓賳 丨賰丕賷鬲賴丕 賲毓 賲乇囟賴丕 賮賷 賯氐丞 亘毓賳賵丕賳 ( 卮賴乇 囟丕卅毓 賲賳 丕賱噩賳賵賳
"賰賳鬲 丕賲乇兀丞 爻毓賷丿丞 賮賷 丕賱乇丕亘毓丞 賵丕賱毓卮乇賷賳 賲賳 毓賲乇賷 孬賲 賮噩兀丞 兀氐亘鬲 亘噩賳賵賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕亘 賵賳賵亘丕鬲 丕賱氐乇毓貙 賴賱 賰賳鬲 賮賷 胤乇賷賯賷 廿賱賶 丕賱噩賳賵賳 責
賰丕賳鬲 爻賵夭丕賳丕 鬲毓賷卮 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 丨鬲賶 丕爻鬲賷賯馗鬲 賮賷 兀丨丿 丕賱兀賷丕賲 賱鬲噩丿 賳賯胤鬲賷賳 丨賲乇丕賵賷賷賳 毓賱賶 丕賱賵乇賷丿 賵賰丕賳鬲 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 鬲鬲毓乇囟 賱睾夭賵 乇賴賷亘 賲賳 亘賯 丕賱賮乇丕卮 . 賵賲賳 賴賳丕 亘丿兀鬲 爻賵夭丕賳丕 鬲毓賷卮 鬲睾賷乇丕鬲 賰孬賷乇丞 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賵賮賷 丨丕賱鬲賴丕
" 賰賱 賷賵賲 賰丕賳 爻賱賵賰賷 賷夭丿丕丿 睾乇丕亘丞.....
賴賳丕賰 禺胤亘 賲丕 賮賷 . 兀鬲氐乇賮 賰賲丕 賷鬲氐乇賮 丕賱賲噩賳賵賳. 毓丕噩夭丞 毓賳 鬲賮爻賷乇 賲丕 賷丨丿孬 賱賷 "
" 賱賲 兀卮毓乇 兀賳賳賷 賳賮爻賷 賲賳匕 兀爻丕亘賷毓 貙 賱賰賳 丕賱丿賲丕乇 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 丕賱匕賷 胤乇兀 毓賱賶 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 賰丕賳 賷胤賮賵 丕賱丌賳 毓賱賶 丕賱爻胤丨 亘爻乇毓丞...
賰賳鬲 毓亘丿丞 賱賱賲丐丕賲乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨賷賰賴丕 毓賯賱賷 丕賱賲乇賷囟. 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賱爻賳丕 爻賵賶 賲噩賲賵毓 丕賱丕噩夭丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰賵賳賳丕貙 賵毓賳丿賲丕 賷賳賴丕乇 丕賱噩爻乇 丕賱匕賷 賷乇亘胤 亘賷賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀噩夭丕亍貙 鬲賳賴丕乇 丕賱賯賷賲 丕賱鬲賷 賳鬲賲爻賰 亘賴丕 賵鬲卮賰賱 賴賵賷鬲賳丕 賲毓賴"
賱鬲亘丿丕 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賵毓丕卅賱鬲賴丕 賮賷 鬲爻噩賷賱 賷賵賲賷丕鬲 賲乇囟賴丕 賵鬲胤賵乇丕鬲賴 .賵丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲毓乇賮 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 賵賲賳 禺賱丕賱 亘毓囟 丕賱鬲爻噩賷賱丕鬲 賮賷 丕賱賲卮賮賷 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賵兀丨丿丕孬 丨丿孬鬲 賲毓賴丕 賵賱丕 鬲賲賱賰 賴賷 丕賶 匕丕賰乇丞 賱賴丕 .
賰賲 賴賵 賲賴賲 兀賳 鬲毓乇賮 賱賲乇囟賰 丕爻賲丕賸 . 毓丿賲 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞
兀爻賵兀 亘賰孬賷乇
賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賱賲乇囟 賵丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 賲毓 丕毓乇丕囟賴 賵禺賵囟 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 亘賰賱 鬲兀孬賷乇丕鬲賴丕 賵兀孬丕乇賴丕 丕賱噩丕賳亘賷丞 賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 賲毓丕賳丕丞 兀禺乇賶 亘噩丕賳亘賴丕 賵賴賷 賲毓丕賳丕丞 賲丕 賯亘賱 鬲卮禺賷氐 丕賱賲乇囟 貙 丕賱丨賷乇丞 賵丕賱鬲禺亘胤. 丕賱鬲兀賱賲 丿賵賳 賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱爻亘亘 . 兀賳 鬲氐亘丨 賰賮兀乇 鬲噩丕乇亘 賵鬲禺囟毓 賱兀賳賵丕毓 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賲賳 丕賱賮丨賵氐丕鬲 賵丕賱兀丿賵賷丞 賵丕賱毓賱丕噩丕鬲 賱兀賳賰 賮賷 賲乇丨賱丞 鬲禺亘胤 鬲賳鬲賯賱 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 鬲卮禺賷氐 賱丌禺乇 丿賵賳 丕賱賵氐賵賱 賱賳鬲賷噩丞 . 賰賱賲丕 鬲賵氐賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 賱鬲卮禺賷氐 賵丕噩乇賵丕 賮丨賵氐丕鬲 賵兀卮毓丞 賵鬲丨丕賱賷賱 賵乇亘賲丕 亘丿兀賵丕 賮賷 賲乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賷賮丕噩卅賴賲 賲乇囟賰 亘鬲睾賷賷乇丕鬲 賵鬲胤賵乇丕鬲 賵賳鬲丕卅噩 賮丨賵氐丕鬲 鬲賴丿賲 鬲賲丕賲丕賸 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐 賱鬲毓賵丿 賱賱丨賷乇丞 賲乇丞 丕禺乇賶 賵丕賱禺賵賮 賵丕賱賯賱賯 .
" 賰賲 毓丿丿 丕賱亘卮乇 毓亘乇 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱匕賷賳 毓丕賳賵丕 賲賳 賲乇囟賷 賵丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱賲卮丕亘賴丞 賱賴 賱賰賳 賱賲 賷購卮禺氐賵丕 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賱賲 賷鬲賱賯賵丕 丕賱毓賱丕噩責 "
賴匕賴 賲毓丕賳丕丞 乇亘賲丕 禺丕囟賴丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇賵賳 賱賰賳 丕賱賲卮賰賱丞 丕賱丕賰亘乇 丨賷賳 鬲氐丕亘 亘賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 貙 賲乇囟 賱丕 賷毓乇賮賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇賵賳 賵賴賳丕 賱丕 兀鬲丨丿孬 賮賯胤 毓賳 丕賱丕卮禺丕氐 丕賱毓丕丿賷賷賳 亘賱 丕賱丕胤亘丕亍 兀賷囟丕 丕賱匕賷賳 乇亘賲丕 賱賲 賷鬲毓乇賮賵丕 毓賱賶 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 賮毓賱賷丕賸 . 賱賲 賷賮丨氐賵丕 兀賵 賷卮丕賴丿賵丕 亘兀毓賷賳賴賲 賲乇賷囟丕賸 鬲賲 鬲卮禺賷氐賴 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 . 賲乇囟 賱賲 賷丿乇爻賵賴 廿賱丕 爻乇賷毓丕賸 賵賲乇賵丕 毓賱賷賴 賲乇丕乇 丕賱賰乇丕賲 賱賰賵賳賴 賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 . 賵賱兀賳 丕賱賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇貙 賱丕 鬲賯丿賲 丕賱丨賰賵賲丕鬲 毓賱賶 鬲賵賮賷乇 丕賱丿毓賲 丕賱賲丕丿賷 賱廿噩乇丕亍 兀亘丨丕孬 毓賱賶 丕賱賲乇囟 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賶 賷賰賵賳 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賳丕丿乇 賵卮丿賷丿 丕賱睾賱丕亍 亘丕賱胤亘毓.
" 賰賱賮 毓賱丕噩賷 賲賱賷賵賳 丿賵賱丕乇. 乇賯賲 賷氐賷亘 丕賱乇兀爻 亘丕賱丿賵丕乇 賵賱丨爻賳 丕賱丨馗 賰賳鬲 賲賵馗賮丞 亘丿賵丕賲 賰丕賲賱 賮賷 匕丕 亘賵爻鬲 賵鬲兀賲賷賳賷 丕賱氐丨賷 睾胤賶 賲毓馗賲 丕賱鬲賰丕賱賷賮 丕賱亘丕賴馗丞. 亘丕賱廿囟丕賮丞 賱匕賱賰 賰丕賳 賱丿賷 毓丕卅賱丞 鬲賯賮 亘噩丕賳亘賷 . 賰丕賳鬲 毓丕卅賱鬲賷 賲丨馗賵馗丞 賱賯丿乇鬲賴丕 毓賱賶 丿賮毓 兀賷 鬲賰丕賱賷賮 賱丕 鬲鬲丨賲賱賴丕 卮乇賰丞 丕賱鬲兀賲賷賳 "
賵賱兀賳 賲乇囟賰 賳丕丿乇 賮爻鬲噩丿 氐毓賵亘丞 賮賷 賮賴賲 賲乇囟賰貙 賵賮賷 卮乇丨賴 賱賲賳 丨賵賱賰.
" 賴匕丕 爻賷噩毓賱賳賷 丕賱丨丕賱丞 乇賯賲 佗佟侑 丕賱鬲賷 噩乇賶 鬲卮禺賷氐賴丕 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳匕 丕賰鬲卮丕賮 丕賱賲乇囟 賮賷 毓丕賲 佗贍贍侑 賲 . 賮乇囟鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱爻丐丕賱 丕賱鬲丕賱賷 : 賱賵 丕爻鬲睾乇賯 丕賱賵氐賵賱 廿賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱禺胤賵丞 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賵賯鬲 賮賷 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賮賰賲 賲乇賷囟 賲氐丕亘 亘丕賱賲乇囟 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 鬲卮禺賷氐賴貙 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賱丕 賷鬲賱賯賷 丕賱毓賱丕噩貙 亘賱 卮禺氐 禺胤兀 亘賲乇囟 毓賯賱賷 兀賵 賮乇囟鬲 毓賱賷賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷 丿丕乇 乇毓丕賷丞 兀賵 毓賳亘乇 賮賷 賲爻鬲卮賮賷 賱賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞"
匕賴丕賳 賵賴賱丕賵爻 (乇丐賷丞 兀賵 爻賲丕毓 兀卮賷丕亍 賱丕 賷乇丕賴丕 兀賵 賷爻賲毓賴丕 丕賱丌禺乇賵賳) 賴賷丕噩 貙 爻賱賵賰 毓丿賵丕賳賷 貙 鬲卮賳噩丕鬲 賵丨乇賰丕鬲 睾乇賷亘丞
囟毓賮 丕賱廿丿乇丕賰貙 賲卮丕賰賱 賮賷 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 賵丕賱賰賱丕賲 貙 賳賵亘丕鬲 氐乇毓 貙 噩賳賵賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕亘 貙丕囟胤乇丕亘 賮賷 囟睾胤 丕賱丿賲 賵賲毓丿賱 囟乇亘丕鬲 丕賱賯賱亘
亘丿丕賷丞 亘鬲卮禺氐賷賴丕 賲賳 丕賳賴丕 鬲毓丕賳賷 賲賳 廿賳爻丨丕亘 丕賱賰丨賵賱 賵丕賱鬲賵鬲乇 丕賱毓氐亘賷 賱丕囟胤乇丕亘 丕賱賮氐丕賲 丕賱毓丕胤賮賷 孬賲 丕囟胤乇丕亘 孬賳丕卅賷 丕賱賯胤亘 賲乇賵乇丕 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐丕鬲 .
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鈥徹� 噩丕亍 丿 . 賳噩丕乇 丕賱胤亘賷亘 爻賵乇賶 丕賱兀氐賱 丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳 賵丕賱丿賴 賷賮賰乇 賮賷 廿禺乇丕噩賴 賲賳 丕賱賲丿乇爻丞 賱賮卮賱賴 丿乇丕爻賷丕賸 孬賲 廿爻鬲胤丕毓 兀丨丿 丕賱賲丿乇爻賷賳 兀賳 賷禺乇噩 賲賵丕賴亘賴 丕賱賰丕賲賳丞 賵匕賰丕丐賴 賱賷鬲賮賵賯 賵賷氐亘丨 胤亘賷亘丕賸 . 孬賲 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 賴賳丕 丕賱鬲賵氐賱 賱賱鬲卮禺賷氐 丕賱氐丨賷丨 賱爻賵夭丕賳丕 亘毓丿 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐丕鬲 丕賱禺丕胤卅丞 .
" 丿賲丕睾賴丕 賷卮鬲毓賱 貙 噩爻賲賴丕 賷賴丕噩賲 賲禺賴丕"
賱賷鬲賵氐賱賵丕 兀禺賷乇丕賸 賱鬲卮禺賷氐 賲乇囟賴丕 賵鬲亘丿兀 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賵乇丨賱丞 毓賵丿丞 爻賵夭丕賳丕 廿賱賶 匕丕鬲賴丕 .
" 兀丨丿 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 毓賱賲鬲賳賷 廿賷丕賴丕 賴匕賴 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 賷賵賲丕賸 亘毓丿 賷賵賲 賴賷 賰賲 兀賳丕 賲丨馗賵馗丞 .丕賱鬲賵賯賷鬲 丕賱賲賳丕爻亘貙 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱賲賳丕爻亘 貙 賲爻鬲卮賮賷 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 丕賱噩丕賲毓賷貙 丿.賳噩丕乇 貙 丿.丿丕賱賲丕賵 .亘丿賵賳 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賲丕賰賳 賵賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賳丕爻 賲丕 賰丕賳 爻賷氐亘丨 賲氐賷乇賷 責
" 賰賲 毓丿丿 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱 毓亘乇 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱匕賷賳 銆� 鬲毓乇囟賵丕 賱噩賱爻丕鬲 胤乇丿 丕賱丕乇賵丕丨銆� 孬賲 鬲購乇賰賵丕 賱賷賲賵鬲賵丕 丿賵賳 兀賷 鬲丨爻賳 責 賰賲 毓丿丿 丕賱賲乇囟賷 丕賱匕賷賳 賷賯亘毓賵賳 丕賱丌賳 賮賷 毓賳丕亘乇 丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱毓賯賱賷丞 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷卮禺氐賵丕 亘丕賱卮賰賱 丕賱氐丨賷丨 ....
賷購賯丿乇 丿.賳噩丕乇 兀賳 鬲爻毓賷賳 亘丕賱賲卅丞 賲賳 丕賱賲氐丕亘賷賳 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 兀孬賳丕亍 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱匕賷 賰賳鬲 兀鬲賱賯賷 賮賷賴 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賮賷 佗贍贍侃 賱賲 賷購卮禺氐賵丕 亘卮賰賱 氐丨賷丨.
兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賮賵賯 丕賱乇丕卅毓貙 賰賳鬲 兀卮毓乇 兀賳賷 丕賯乇兀 乇賵丕賷丞 賵賱賷爻 賰鬲丕亘 . 丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 爻賵夭丕賳丕 廿禺鬲乇丕賯賷 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱 賵廿禺鬲乇丕賯 賲卮丕毓乇賷 賵卮毓乇鬲 亘賰賱 鬲胤賵乇丕鬲 賲乇囟賴丕 賵賮賯丿丕賳賴丕 賱毓賯賱賴丕 賵噩賳賵賳賴丕 賵賴匕賷丕賳賴丕 貙 卮毓乇鬲 亘賯賱賯 賲賳 丨賵賱賴丕 賵氐丿賲鬲賴賲 賲賳 鬲氐乇賮鬲賴丕 . 賵鬲禺亘胤鬲 賲毓賴賲 胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 亘賷賳 賰賱 丕賱鬲卮禺賷氐丕鬲 丨鬲賶 丕賱賵氐賵賱 賱鬲卮禺賷氐賴丕 丕賱氐丨賷丨 . 賮兀毓乇丕囟 賲乇囟賴丕 鬲鬲卮丕亘賴 賲毓 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 賵禺丕氐丞 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賵丕賱毓賯賱賷丞 .
賱賲 鬲賰賳 賱丿賷 丕賶 賲毓賱賵賲丞 毓賳 賲乇囟賴丕 賯亘賱 兀賳 丕賯乇兀 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 貙 賰賱 賲丕 賰賳鬲 丕毓賱賲賴 丕賳賴 賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 .賱匕丕 鬲毓賲丿鬲 兀賳 賱丕 兀囟賷賮 丕爻賲 賲乇囟賴丕 賱兀賳 毓丿賲 賲毓乇賮鬲賷 噩毓賱鬲賳賷 兀睾賵氐 賲毓賴丕 鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 鬲卮禺賷氐 賵鬲禺亘胤丕鬲賴丕 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱 . 孬賲 亘丿兀鬲 賲毓賴丕 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賵丕爻鬲賲毓鬲 賱丨丿賷孬賴丕 毓賳 賲乇囟賴丕 賵賲卮丕毓乇賴丕 丕孬賳丕亍 丕賱鬲毓丕賮賷 賵賲丕 亘毓丿賴
賵賰兀賶 氐丿賲丞 毓馗賷賲丞 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賰 貙 賷丐孬乇 賮賷賰 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 亘卮丿丞 賵賷毓乇賷賰 賵賷鬲乇賰 賳丿亘丞 賰亘賷乇丞 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 亘丿丕禺賱賰貙 賵亘毓丿 丕賱賳噩丕丞 賲賳 賰賱 賴匕丕 貙 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳賰 賲爻鬲毓丿 兀禺賷乇丕賸 賱賱毓胤丕亍 賵賲爻鬲毓丿 賱賲爻丕毓丿丞 兀賶 卮禺氐 丌禺乇 賷賲乇 亘兀夭賲丕鬲 賲卮丕亘賴丞. 賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱丕賳賮鬲丕丨 丕賱卮丿賷丿 賲孬賱 噩乇丨 賲賸鬲賯賷丨貙 賯丿 賷鬲乇賰賰 兀丨賷丕賳丕 賴卮丕賸 亘賱丕 丨賲丕賷丞.
兀賰鬲卮賮鬲 丕賱丌賳 丕孬賳丕亍 亘丨孬賷 毓賳 丕賱氐賵乇 丕賳 賴賳丕賰 賮賷賱賲 亘毓賳賵丕賳 " brain on fire "
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April 15, 2013
Wonderful, wonderful book.
I'm a neurologist, and it's amazing to see a book written from a patient's perspective, especially one with a such a good outcome. The book progresses from the starting of the disease process and right up to the recovery stage. It's unnerving to read about the psychotic episodes, the complex partial seizures, the generalised seizures and ultimately, the catatonia. It must have been very frightening for both the author and her loved ones to witness all of those events unfolding.
Scientifically, the book is well-researched, and I love how the medicals terms are explained without jargons. I particularly love the part where the author describes how IVIGs are produced.
That being said, I doubt the significance of the visual neglect as shown with the clock face drawing, and it was written as if the visual neglect led to the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis. I guess, perhaps, the visual neglect counts as 'focal neurology' -- hard evidence that something's wrong with the 'hardware' i.e. the brain, and that would have prompted the doctors to look harder for an organic cause of the psychosis and hallucinations.
This book truly highlights that doctors should always be aware that there are organic possibilities to consider before bouncing so-called psychotic episodes over to the psychiatrist. I truly hope that the thousands and thousands of patients with NMDA-R antibody encephalitis and their relatives would find comfort in this book, and that they come across brilliant and compassionate neurologists who would champion their plight. On the final note, I'm glad for all the wonderful work that Dr Dalmau has done in the field of autoimmune encephalitis, and the author's recovery is testament to how well patients with the same condition could fare. Without him and his group, many patients would have been locked up in a psychiatric hospital or a nursing home without any reprieve despite the fact that NMDA-R antibody encephalitis *is* a treatable condition.
P/S: I read the very same Lancet paper by Josef Dalmau when I was looking up on how to treat this disease, and I still pass the same abstract around when colleagues from other hospitals & specialties ask me about good papers to read regarding NMDA-R antibody encephalitis.
I'm a neurologist, and it's amazing to see a book written from a patient's perspective, especially one with a such a good outcome. The book progresses from the starting of the disease process and right up to the recovery stage. It's unnerving to read about the psychotic episodes, the complex partial seizures, the generalised seizures and ultimately, the catatonia. It must have been very frightening for both the author and her loved ones to witness all of those events unfolding.
Scientifically, the book is well-researched, and I love how the medicals terms are explained without jargons. I particularly love the part where the author describes how IVIGs are produced.
That being said, I doubt the significance of the visual neglect as shown with the clock face drawing, and it was written as if the visual neglect led to the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis. I guess, perhaps, the visual neglect counts as 'focal neurology' -- hard evidence that something's wrong with the 'hardware' i.e. the brain, and that would have prompted the doctors to look harder for an organic cause of the psychosis and hallucinations.
This book truly highlights that doctors should always be aware that there are organic possibilities to consider before bouncing so-called psychotic episodes over to the psychiatrist. I truly hope that the thousands and thousands of patients with NMDA-R antibody encephalitis and their relatives would find comfort in this book, and that they come across brilliant and compassionate neurologists who would champion their plight. On the final note, I'm glad for all the wonderful work that Dr Dalmau has done in the field of autoimmune encephalitis, and the author's recovery is testament to how well patients with the same condition could fare. Without him and his group, many patients would have been locked up in a psychiatric hospital or a nursing home without any reprieve despite the fact that NMDA-R antibody encephalitis *is* a treatable condition.
P/S: I read the very same Lancet paper by Josef Dalmau when I was looking up on how to treat this disease, and I still pass the same abstract around when colleagues from other hospitals & specialties ask me about good papers to read regarding NMDA-R antibody encephalitis.
October 30, 2016
When you read you enter another world, and 鈥� as someone who is uncomfortable (with even the idea apparently) of care giving 鈥� entering the world of hospitals for the majority of this book was painful for me. Beyond that, I was unimpressed with the pop culture mentioned throughout the book 鈥� she described someone as looking like a character from 鈥溾€� and she even uses Google as a verb. The part where she interviews was probably the only part that I found truly enjoyable. The first half of the book plays like a mystery as to what is wrong with her and then midway through you find out what it is and the rest of the book describes the recovery where she incessantly wonders if she will ever be back to normal and fears what others think of her. As I got most of the way through, I felt I needed to finish it to find out if the boyfriend leaves her or if they get married and I didn鈥檛 really ever find out. It might have been because I didn鈥檛 end up reading all of the last pages.
February 21, 2013
I found this book troubling. Not because of the medical mystery -- that was the most interesting of all. It seems that the book would be better written in the third person, by someone other than the author/experiencer of the madness. By her own account, she cannot describe what it felt like to have her brain be on fire. The book says she uses journalistic techniques to piece together. And yet these tidbits drop in without much sense of how they were discovered (except for the case of the videotapes in the epilepsy ward). There are some reproductions of notes she scribbled and some doctors' notes, but the book felt remarkably lacking in insight. The Syrian doctor who made the diagnosis is interesting; we get some, but not much.
In the absence of a more straightforward journalistic accounting, and in the absence of our sympathies (we don' get to meet Cahalan prior to her paranoia, so we don't have any baseline), I wanted the book to be reflective, philosophical about the state of madness, about what creates people's sense of their own mind, about paranoid. None of that happened. I found myself reading to finish, rather than reading to enjoy.
Much disappointment, as this seems very much a book I'd delight in.
In the absence of a more straightforward journalistic accounting, and in the absence of our sympathies (we don' get to meet Cahalan prior to her paranoia, so we don't have any baseline), I wanted the book to be reflective, philosophical about the state of madness, about what creates people's sense of their own mind, about paranoid. None of that happened. I found myself reading to finish, rather than reading to enjoy.
Much disappointment, as this seems very much a book I'd delight in.
September 4, 2022
A fascinating and terrifying account of the author's brief descent into what was perceived as "madness," but her psychosis was actually a symptom of an autoimmune disease that caused her immune system to attack her brain.
It's so scary thinking that an otherwise normal 24-year-old could start suffering from this ailment completely out of the blue. It's always odd saying that I "enjoyed" a book like this since it is so harrowing, but I was riveted while reading her story. I valued it even more after reading the book's concluding section in which the author discusses the lives she's affected by sharing her story; far more people will receive the correct diagnosis because she made her story public. And my jaw hit the floor when she hypothesized that those individuals in the past who were mistakenly believed to be possessed by the devil (think The Exorcist), may have actually been experiencing the same autoimmune disease she did. 馃槻
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It's so scary thinking that an otherwise normal 24-year-old could start suffering from this ailment completely out of the blue. It's always odd saying that I "enjoyed" a book like this since it is so harrowing, but I was riveted while reading her story. I valued it even more after reading the book's concluding section in which the author discusses the lives she's affected by sharing her story; far more people will receive the correct diagnosis because she made her story public. And my jaw hit the floor when she hypothesized that those individuals in the past who were mistakenly believed to be possessed by the devil (think The Exorcist), may have actually been experiencing the same autoimmune disease she did. 馃槻
to hear more of my thoughts on this book over on my Booktube channel, abookolive!
September 22, 2014
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The first half went like this, "what's wrong with me? I'm going crazy" restated in about five thousand ways.
Then midway through the book we finally find out SC has NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis, which is sometimes misdiagnosed as schizophrenia (or schizoaffective disorder in SC's case).
I really wish the story wasn't presented as a Mystery Diagnosis or an episode of House. Just let us know from the beginning what it is you suffered from and let the story unfold from there.
The second half of the book discussed her recovery. It was an agonizing read, with these two questions rehashed over and over again: "will I ever be back to my old self?" and "what will people think of me?" Sheer torture to experience almost 100 pages of insecurity, where the big crises are as follows: (1) not being able to socialize and be "outgoing" and "talkative" like before, (2) being embarrassed to live at home with mom and stepdad and (3) gaining 50 lbs, so she chooses to sit in the back of her cycling class where no one would notice her. Just ughhhhh.
The first half went like this, "what's wrong with me? I'm going crazy" restated in about five thousand ways.
Then midway through the book we finally find out SC has NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis, which is sometimes misdiagnosed as schizophrenia (or schizoaffective disorder in SC's case).
I really wish the story wasn't presented as a Mystery Diagnosis or an episode of House. Just let us know from the beginning what it is you suffered from and let the story unfold from there.
The second half of the book discussed her recovery. It was an agonizing read, with these two questions rehashed over and over again: "will I ever be back to my old self?" and "what will people think of me?" Sheer torture to experience almost 100 pages of insecurity, where the big crises are as follows: (1) not being able to socialize and be "outgoing" and "talkative" like before, (2) being embarrassed to live at home with mom and stepdad and (3) gaining 50 lbs, so she chooses to sit in the back of her cycling class where no one would notice her. Just ughhhhh.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 8, 2023
3.5 stars
Susannah Cahalan
At the age of 24 Susannah Cahalan was doing just fine. She was lively, talkative, and fun-loving; she worked as a reporter for the New York Post; she lived in an apartment in Hell's Kitchen; and she had a great boyfriend named Stephen.
Then Susannah began to change: she forgot to prepare for an important work meeting; started to get migraines; felt compelled to snoop through Stephen's things; developed numbness.....then pins and needles. Before long these symptoms morphed into intense crying; rambling speech; facial grimaces; chewing motions; puppet-like movements; aggressive behavior; out-of-body experiences; seizures; paranoia; and delusions.
Susannah Cahalan began to feel paranoid
Susan started to imagine that people were saying nasty things about her (or to her) and became convinced that her father had killed his wife (who was alive). In time, Susannah could hardly walk or speak.
Susannah saw doctor after doctor and had numerous medical and psychological tests, but physicians couldn't agree on a diagnosis. Suggestions included: excessive drinking and partying; anxiety attacks; epilepsy; bipolar disorder; schizoid disorder; schizophrenia; meningitis; encephalitis; and more.
Eventually, Susannah broke down completely and had to be hospitalized. At this point, Susannah 'lost' a month of her life.....she has no memory of this period. However, Susannah was able to reconstruct this time using hospital videos, doctors' files, interviews with medical personnel, recollections of friends and family, and a journal kept by her parents.
Susannah Cahalan was admitted to the hospital
Susannah might have descended into permanent psychosis, or even died - but was lucky enough to be diagnosed by a Syrian neurologist, Dr. Souhel Najjar.
Dr. Souhel Najjar
Dr. Najjar determined that Susannah had a rare autoimmune disorder called "anti鈥揘MDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis" - in short, antibodies from Susannah's immune system were attacking her brain. When Susannah was asked to draw a clock she put all the numbers on the right side, showing that the right side of her brain was inflamed.
Susannah Cahalan's brain scan shows damage on the right side
Susannah Cahalan's clock drawing indicates damage to the right side of the brain
Dr. Najjar prescribed an intensive and prolonged regimen of steroid drugs, which ultimately halted the antibody assault on Susannah's head. The question remained.....could she recover completely? Fortunately Susannah had enormous support from her parents, stepparents, and Stephen - as well as excellent medical care (and good insurance).
Susannah did recover and married Stephen, who had supported her through the entire ordeal.
Susannah Cahalan married her boyfriend Stephen
In this memoir Susannah presents a thorough and vivid description of her descent into 'madness' and her difficult step by step recovery - which required her to re-learn how to walk, talk, and interact with people. Susannah also provides general information about the brain, how it works, how memories are formed, etc. This is interesting and accessible to the lay person.
Susannah Cahalan is enormously grateful to her doctor, Souhel Najjar
Susannah's case became a 'cause celebre' - with articles in medical journals and newspapers as well as television appearances.
Susannah Cahalan made television appearances to spread the word about her autoimmune disorder
As it turns out, the widespread publicity benefitted people who shared Susannah's illness, but were misdiagnosed. Some doctors, seeing articles about anti鈥揘MDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis, were able to re-assess their patients. In some cases, this saved lives.
One BIG lesson I took away from this book is that it's very important to find the right doctor and get the correct diagnosis. As Susannah points out, people throughout history who were thought to be psychotic may have had anti鈥揘MDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis.....or some other organic brain disorder. Of course this is true about health issues in general - ongoing research and new information often sheds light on previously 'mysterious' maladies.
I'd recommend this book to readers interested in memoirs about illness and recovery, especially brain disorders.
This book was adapted into a movie starring Chlo毛 Grace Moretz.
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December 3, 2016
I am the perfect audience for this book: a catastrophic thinker who worries about any and all sensational news. I put off reading this one for a good long time because I was afraid...then decided I had better read it, just in case. I could save a life with this information!
I listened to the audio, which felt a little flat. It is impressive to consider that the author had to do so much investigative reporting to write her own story simply because she didn't remember it, but the combination of the audio voice and the 20/20 feel of the story left me craving a more personal connection. Perhaps I'm asking too much. The story was good but it read very heavy on information and light on emotions and recovery. I will say that it is nothing short of a miracle that this author is here and able to write. I hope her life is one of gratitude and daily joy. 3 stars
I listened to the audio, which felt a little flat. It is impressive to consider that the author had to do so much investigative reporting to write her own story simply because she didn't remember it, but the combination of the audio voice and the 20/20 feel of the story left me craving a more personal connection. Perhaps I'm asking too much. The story was good but it read very heavy on information and light on emotions and recovery. I will say that it is nothing short of a miracle that this author is here and able to write. I hope her life is one of gratitude and daily joy. 3 stars
March 24, 2022
I genuinely cannot comprehend the courage and tenacity needed for Ms. Cahalan to have gotten through this medical nightmare. For her to have conquered, come through only to dig deeper to share her terrifying time with the goal of hoping to help others avoid the confusion and continuation of suffering due to ignorance and misdiagnosis.....this is the stuff of a super-hero and Ms. Cahalan is certainly one of mine.
This is a phenomenal read for putting things in perspective, for me anyway.
This is a phenomenal read for putting things in perspective, for me anyway.
December 15, 2023
賱賵 丕爻鬲睾乇賯 丕賱賵氐賵賱 廿賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱禺胤賵丞 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賵賯鬲 賮賷 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 丕賱毓丕賱賲 貙 賮賰賲 賲乇賷囟 賲氐丕亘 亘丕賱賲乇囟 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 鬲卮禺賷氐賴 貙 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賱丕 賷鬲賱賯賶 丕賱毓賱丕噩 貙 亘賱 卮購禺氐 禺胤兀賸 亘賲乇囟 毓賯賱賷 兀賵 賮乇囟鬲 毓賱賷賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷 丿丕乇 乇毓丕賷丞 兀賵 毓賳亘乇 賮賷 賲爻鬲卮賮賶 賱賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 責!!
April 30, 2017
It might not be the sexiest of subjects, but I really have a thing for neurology. How our billions of brain cells and their chemistry function is still a great mystery, but also toss in immune responses that have gone haywire, and there are complexities here that are beyond fascinating when unraveled.
This is the June selection for one of my book clubs, otherwise it is unlikely that this memoir would have drawn me in, but I did enjoy it. One of my teenagers was born over three months preterm, and having a science background, I acquainted myself on basic pre-natal neurology. I needed to understand how spending his third trimester outside of the womb and being injured daily with IV needles, heel sticks, etc was different from being protected in utero. After all that reading 16 years ago, I'm a confirmed nut for brain stuff. Yeah, no - not quite a zombie.. but I do love brains.
As the title and publisher's blurb tells you, this is the story of a young woman who came down with a rare inflammation of one hemisphere of her brain - probably caused by some sort of environmental trigger...a bug bite or maybe a virus.. but also tied to her own body's unique immune system. That the inflammation was even found was in itself a rarity in that the symptoms that went along with it were extremely similar to schizophrenia. Had she not had affluent parents to advocate for her and very good health insurance, her story might have ended quite differently. She mentions the insurance coverage a bit toward the end, but I kept wondering throughout the entire book about those with lesser resources. The IV infusions she received cost $20,000 per bag, and her overall treatment cost was over $1 million. She did report the possibility that people who are living with schizophrenia (or even autism) actually might not have that neurological disorder, but be suffering from inflammation instead. Sobering thought.
A pretty, 24 year old white girl who works as a reporter in NYC and has highly educated, affluent, and tenacious parents is more likely to find a miracle diagnosis and treatment plan than your average guy. The story was interesting, but missed some potential. The writing was a touch redundant, but then again, it is pretty good for someone her age and who has overcome brain issues. The content and message were great - the delivery was okay.
As an aside, many years ago when I was in elementary school and came home with chicken pox, I transmitted the illness to my 13 year old sister. For a few days, her symptoms shadowed mine, but she suddenly started raving with high fever. She leapt onto the bed, jumping and snarling - almost animal-like. When my petite grandmother went to soothe her, my sister knocked her to the floor and seemed, well, kinda psychotic. When the paramedics arrived, they gave her a sedative and loaded her onto a gurney that they carried down the stairs from our shared bedroom. I never saw her again.
The chicken pox had mutated into encephalitis, and her immune response went into overdrive. She was brain dead after just a day but was kept alive so her organs could be harvested for another child. WHY? Why did the encephalitis not hit my brain but did so hers? Immune responses and pathogens and neurology....cryptic stuff, but something close to my own sort of wondering.
I'm thrilled beyond words that the young author was able to recover as well as she did and was able to write this book. May her good health continue!
This is the June selection for one of my book clubs, otherwise it is unlikely that this memoir would have drawn me in, but I did enjoy it. One of my teenagers was born over three months preterm, and having a science background, I acquainted myself on basic pre-natal neurology. I needed to understand how spending his third trimester outside of the womb and being injured daily with IV needles, heel sticks, etc was different from being protected in utero. After all that reading 16 years ago, I'm a confirmed nut for brain stuff. Yeah, no - not quite a zombie.. but I do love brains.
As the title and publisher's blurb tells you, this is the story of a young woman who came down with a rare inflammation of one hemisphere of her brain - probably caused by some sort of environmental trigger...a bug bite or maybe a virus.. but also tied to her own body's unique immune system. That the inflammation was even found was in itself a rarity in that the symptoms that went along with it were extremely similar to schizophrenia. Had she not had affluent parents to advocate for her and very good health insurance, her story might have ended quite differently. She mentions the insurance coverage a bit toward the end, but I kept wondering throughout the entire book about those with lesser resources. The IV infusions she received cost $20,000 per bag, and her overall treatment cost was over $1 million. She did report the possibility that people who are living with schizophrenia (or even autism) actually might not have that neurological disorder, but be suffering from inflammation instead. Sobering thought.
A pretty, 24 year old white girl who works as a reporter in NYC and has highly educated, affluent, and tenacious parents is more likely to find a miracle diagnosis and treatment plan than your average guy. The story was interesting, but missed some potential. The writing was a touch redundant, but then again, it is pretty good for someone her age and who has overcome brain issues. The content and message were great - the delivery was okay.
As an aside, many years ago when I was in elementary school and came home with chicken pox, I transmitted the illness to my 13 year old sister. For a few days, her symptoms shadowed mine, but she suddenly started raving with high fever. She leapt onto the bed, jumping and snarling - almost animal-like. When my petite grandmother went to soothe her, my sister knocked her to the floor and seemed, well, kinda psychotic. When the paramedics arrived, they gave her a sedative and loaded her onto a gurney that they carried down the stairs from our shared bedroom. I never saw her again.
The chicken pox had mutated into encephalitis, and her immune response went into overdrive. She was brain dead after just a day but was kept alive so her organs could be harvested for another child. WHY? Why did the encephalitis not hit my brain but did so hers? Immune responses and pathogens and neurology....cryptic stuff, but something close to my own sort of wondering.
I'm thrilled beyond words that the young author was able to recover as well as she did and was able to write this book. May her good health continue!
September 16, 2015
I started this book last night, and couldn't put it down until I finished it this morning. I know her story all too well as I've been in a similar dark place myself. Aphasia, myoclonus, amnesia, jemais vu, hyperesthesia, allodynia, hemiparesis, paresthesia, cognitive impairment, impaired executive function, depersonalization, neuropsychological assessments, hemiplegic, acephalgic -- words that began to define my life just last year.
Her story is a remarkable one, but as a journalist, I believe she downplayed the emotions that this kind of brain sickness evokes. The fear that comes with not remembering, of losing your cognitive abilities -- unable to read, write, make decisions, follow instructions. The defeat from inconclusive tests, doctors with no answers, even doubting your psychological health. The utter loss of self, of what makes you YOU. Wondering if you'll ever be "you" again, mourning the loss of who you used to be. Finally the celebration, that turning point, the triumph when you overcome your obstacles to write that first article again (or in my case pass that exam.) But really, can anyone accurately describe those feelings?
Fortunately for both of us, the slope of the line was up. But without those genius doctors to pinpoint a diagnosis, to prescribe the right treatment, without the strength of family and friends to stick with us through it all, would we have shared the same outcome? Like Susannah, I worry about those that are less fortunate, those that fall through the cracks. I appreciate how hard it must have been for her to relive it all in order to put her story out there, and I am grateful for the number of people she has helped as a result.
Her story is a remarkable one, but as a journalist, I believe she downplayed the emotions that this kind of brain sickness evokes. The fear that comes with not remembering, of losing your cognitive abilities -- unable to read, write, make decisions, follow instructions. The defeat from inconclusive tests, doctors with no answers, even doubting your psychological health. The utter loss of self, of what makes you YOU. Wondering if you'll ever be "you" again, mourning the loss of who you used to be. Finally the celebration, that turning point, the triumph when you overcome your obstacles to write that first article again (or in my case pass that exam.) But really, can anyone accurately describe those feelings?
Fortunately for both of us, the slope of the line was up. But without those genius doctors to pinpoint a diagnosis, to prescribe the right treatment, without the strength of family and friends to stick with us through it all, would we have shared the same outcome? Like Susannah, I worry about those that are less fortunate, those that fall through the cracks. I appreciate how hard it must have been for her to relive it all in order to put her story out there, and I am grateful for the number of people she has helped as a result.
July 30, 2020
讴鬲丕亘 爻乇诏匕卮鬲 賵丕賯毓蹖 爻賵夭丕賳丕 讴丕賴丕賱丕賳 禺亘乇賳诏丕乇 賳蹖賵蹖賵乇讴 倬爻鬲 賴爻鬲 讴賴 亘賴鈥屫焚堌� 賳丕诏賴丕賳蹖 毓賱丕卅賲 噩賳賵賳 倬蹖丿丕 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 賵 乇賮鬲賴 乇賮鬲賴 卮丿鬲 賲蹖鈥屭屫辟�.
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丕诏賴 胤乇賮丿丕乇 禺賵丕賳丿賳 爻乇诏匕卮鬲鈥屬囏ж� 倬夭卮讴 蹖丕 乇賵丕賳鈥屫促嗀ж� 賴爻鬲蹖丿 蹖丕 亘賴 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丿乇 丨賵夭賴 丕毓氐丕亘 賵 乇賵丕賳 毓賱丕賯賴 丿丕乇蹖丿貙 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 亘乇丕鬲賵賳 噩丕賱亘 亘丕卮賴.
倬.賳郾: 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕賲 噩丕賱亘 賵 鬲乇爻賳丕讴賴 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 丕诏賴 丿讴鬲乇 賳噩丕乇 倬蹖丿丕卮 賳賲蹖鈥屫簇� 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賲賲讴賳 亘賵丿 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘賴 亘禺卮 乇賵丕賳蹖 賲賳鬲賯賱 亘卮賴 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫� 鬲亘丕賴 卮賴貙 趩賳丿 賳賮乇 賲賲讴賳賴 鬲賵蹖 丿賳蹖丕 丕蹖賳 卮丕賳爻 乇賵 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賳丿 讴賴 賵丕賯毓丕 丿乇丿卮賵賳 丿乇賲丕賳 卮賴責 毓賱賲 倬夭卮讴蹖 賲丕 賵丕賯毓丕 趩賯丿乇 倬蹖卮乇賮鬲賴 賵 乇丕賴诏卮丕爻鬲責
倬.賳鄄: 賮蹖賱賲卮 乇賵 丕氐賱丕 丿賵爻鬲 賳丿丕卮鬲賲 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲賴 亘賵丿 丕賵賳 毓匕丕亘 賵 爻禺鬲蹖 賵... 爻賵夭丕賳丕 乇賵 賳卮賵賳 亘丿賴.
倬夭卮讴丕賳 鬲賯乇蹖亘丕 賴蹖趩 鬲賵囟蹖丨 賵 鬲賵噩蹖賴 賲賳胤賯蹖鈥屫й� 賳丿丕乇賳丿 趩賵賳 鬲賲丕賲 丌夭賲丕蹖卮鈥屬囏ж� 毓丕丿蹖賴 賵 賲蹖诏賳 亘賴 賲卮讴賱丕鬲 乇賵丕賳蹖 賲亘鬲賱丕 卮丿賴.
鬲丕 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 丿讴鬲乇 爻賴蹖賱 賳噩丕乇 賲卮讴賱 爻賵夭丕賳丕 乇賵 鬲卮禺蹖氐 賲蹖丿賴 賵 丿乇賲丕賳卮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.(丕蹖賳 讴賴 賲卮讴賱 趩蹖賴 乇賵 鬲賵 讴鬲丕亘 亘禺賵賳蹖丿貙 丿蹖诏賴 賴賲賴鈥屫促� 鬲毓乇蹖賮 賳讴賳賲 :丿蹖 ) 丿讴鬲乇 爻賴蹖賱 賲蹖诏賴 "賲睾夭 丕賵 丌鬲卮 诏乇賮鬲賴" 賵 丕爻賲 讴鬲丕亘 賴賲 丕夭 丕蹖賳鈥屫呝勝� 丕蹖卮賵賳 賲蹖丕丿.
讴丕賴丕賱丕賳 丿乇 丕亘鬲丿丕 蹖讴 賲賯丕賱賴 亘賴鈥屬嗀з� "蹖讴 賲丕賴 噩賳賵賳" 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫迟� 讴賴 倬爻 丕夭 丿乇蹖丕賮鬲 噩賵丕蹖夭 賲鬲毓丿丿 鬲氐賲蹖賲 亘賴 賳诏丕乇卮 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖鈥屭屫辟�. 讴鬲丕亘 禺賵卮鈥屫堌з� 賵 乇賵丕賳蹖 亘賵丿貙 賮氐賱鈥屬囏й� 讴賵鬲丕賴蹖 丿丕乇賴 賵 亘賴鈥屬嗀肛� 賲賳 亘蹖卮鬲乇 卮亘蹖賴 诏夭丕乇卮 禺丕胤乇丕鬲 賴賲乇丕賴 亘丕 賮讴鬲鈥屬囏й� 毓賱賲蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 丕蹖賳 賳賵毓 賳诏丕乇卮 卮丕蹖丿 亘賴鈥屫ж坟� 丕蹖賳賴鈥屭┵� 讴丕賴丕賱丕賳 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴鈥屬嗂ж� 亘賵丿賴.
丕诏賴 胤乇賮丿丕乇 禺賵丕賳丿賳 爻乇诏匕卮鬲鈥屬囏ж� 倬夭卮讴 蹖丕 乇賵丕賳鈥屫促嗀ж� 賴爻鬲蹖丿 蹖丕 亘賴 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丿乇 丨賵夭賴 丕毓氐丕亘 賵 乇賵丕賳 毓賱丕賯賴 丿丕乇蹖丿貙 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 亘乇丕鬲賵賳 噩丕賱亘 亘丕卮賴.
倬.賳郾: 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 亘乇丕賲 噩丕賱亘 賵 鬲乇爻賳丕讴賴 丕蹖賳鈥屭┵� 丕诏賴 丿讴鬲乇 賳噩丕乇 倬蹖丿丕卮 賳賲蹖鈥屫簇� 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賲賲讴賳 亘賵丿 亘乇丕蹖 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘賴 亘禺卮 乇賵丕賳蹖 賲賳鬲賯賱 亘卮賴 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫� 鬲亘丕賴 卮賴貙 趩賳丿 賳賮乇 賲賲讴賳賴 鬲賵蹖 丿賳蹖丕 丕蹖賳 卮丕賳爻 乇賵 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賳丿 讴賴 賵丕賯毓丕 丿乇丿卮賵賳 丿乇賲丕賳 卮賴責 毓賱賲 倬夭卮讴蹖 賲丕 賵丕賯毓丕 趩賯丿乇 倬蹖卮乇賮鬲賴 賵 乇丕賴诏卮丕爻鬲責
倬.賳鄄: 賮蹖賱賲卮 乇賵 丕氐賱丕 丿賵爻鬲 賳丿丕卮鬲賲 賳鬲賵賳爻鬲賴 亘賵丿 丕賵賳 毓匕丕亘 賵 爻禺鬲蹖 賵... 爻賵夭丕賳丕 乇賵 賳卮賵賳 亘丿賴.
October 7, 2024
After reading this book, the hypochondriac in me is grateful to know the existence of this disease, in case it happens to me and I need a doctor to look into it.
I鈥檓 sorry she had to go through this. My mom was misdiagnosed for a long time, and by the time we finally got an accurate diagnosis, we had only three weeks left together. So I know a little about this, even though my mom鈥檚 disease was something entirely different. As such, my compassion meter was very high on this one.
I鈥檓 sorry she had to go through this. My mom was misdiagnosed for a long time, and by the time we finally got an accurate diagnosis, we had only three weeks left together. So I know a little about this, even though my mom鈥檚 disease was something entirely different. As such, my compassion meter was very high on this one.
October 26, 2019
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a 2012 autobiography by writer Susannah Cahalan. The book narrates Cahalan's wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she would have violent episodes and delusions. The book also covers Cahalan's life after her recovery, including her reactions to watching videotapes of her psychotic episodes while in the hospital. Cahalan also discusses her symptoms prior to her hospitalization, as she had previously been diagnosed by a psychiatrist with bipolar disorder.
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 乇賵夭 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 卮卮賲 賲丕賴 賲蹖 爻丕賱 2019 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a 2012 autobiography by writer Susannah Cahalan. The book narrates Cahalan's wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she would have violent episodes and delusions. The book also covers Cahalan's life after her recovery, including her reactions to watching videotapes of her psychotic episodes while in the hospital. Cahalan also discusses her symptoms prior to her hospitalization, as she had previously been diagnosed by a psychiatrist with bipolar disorder.
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 乇賵夭 亘蹖爻鬲 賵 卮卮賲 賲丕賴 賲蹖 爻丕賱 2019 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 賲睾夭 丿乇 丌鬲卮: 蹖讴 賲丕賴 噩賳賵賳 賲賳貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 爻賵夭丕賳丕 讴丕賴丕賱丕賳貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 卮賴賳丕夭 讴賲蹖賱蹖鈥屫藏ж囏� 鬲賴乇丕賳: 賳卮乇 爻賳诏鈥忊€� 1397貨 丿乇 198 氐貨 卮丕亘讴: 9786229993651 貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丕賱鬲賴丕亘 賲睾夭 - 亘蹖賲丕乇丕賳 - 丕蹖丕賱丕鬲 賲鬲丨丿賴 - 爻乇诏匕卮鬲賳丕賲賴 爻賵夭丕賳丕 讴丕賴丕賱丕賳 - 爻丿賴 21 賲
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August 24, 2024
This was a moving account of the terrifying experience writer Susannah Cahalan had with a rare/invisible illness that ravaged her body, causing seizures and delusions, and which none of her doctors could diagnose. Rare/invisible illness can be especially traumatic for patients because not only are you sick, but all your medical tests, sometimes dozens of medical tests, are coming back 鈥渘ormal.鈥� You get accused of making up symptoms. Your symptoms get classified as 鈥減sychiatric.鈥� It took months of searching and a determined doctor to finally figure out the root cause of Cahalan鈥檚 illness. This is a short medical memoir and a very good one.
October 10, 2020
A must read for anyone interested in psychology, or neuroscience.
Susannah is a successful 24-year-old reporter. She has a good relationship with her boyfriend, her divorced parents, and her little cat.
Then she wakes up with a bug bite on her arm. She is convinced that bedbugs are infesting her apartment. She calls the exterminator to spray, even though he insists there's no sign of bugs.
And what's with all this junk? Why is she holding on to all this stuff? She starts to throw away everything she sees as "cluttering" her apartment: photos, books, papers.
And her boyfriend! What if he's cheating on her? She's seized with an uncontrollable urge to spy on him. She goes through all his e-mails and searches his apartment.
Slowly her friends, family and colleagues start to realize that something is very, very wrong with Susannah. Is she going crazy? Will she have to be locked in a psych ward for the rest of her life?
Cahalan paints a very vivid picture of hell: losing control of your mind and who you are but not being able to do anything about it. She describes being trapped inside her mind, knowing that what she's doing and saying is crazy but unable to stop herself.
Her parents and boyfriend are her champions -
The only reason this is not getting 5 stars from me is that it is a bit heavy on the technical medical jargon and while I have a solid knowledge of psychology and neuroscience terms, the average reader does not and will find this tedious or confusing.
Susannah is a successful 24-year-old reporter. She has a good relationship with her boyfriend, her divorced parents, and her little cat.
Then she wakes up with a bug bite on her arm. She is convinced that bedbugs are infesting her apartment. She calls the exterminator to spray, even though he insists there's no sign of bugs.
And what's with all this junk? Why is she holding on to all this stuff? She starts to throw away everything she sees as "cluttering" her apartment: photos, books, papers.
And her boyfriend! What if he's cheating on her? She's seized with an uncontrollable urge to spy on him. She goes through all his e-mails and searches his apartment.
Slowly her friends, family and colleagues start to realize that something is very, very wrong with Susannah. Is she going crazy? Will she have to be locked in a psych ward for the rest of her life?
Cahalan paints a very vivid picture of hell: losing control of your mind and who you are but not being able to do anything about it. She describes being trapped inside her mind, knowing that what she's doing and saying is crazy but unable to stop herself.
Her parents and boyfriend are her champions -
The only reason this is not getting 5 stars from me is that it is a bit heavy on the technical medical jargon and while I have a solid knowledge of psychology and neuroscience terms, the average reader does not and will find this tedious or confusing.
April 1, 2024
賯氐丞 丨賯賷賯賷丞 賱賱氐丨賮賷丞 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賰賴丕賱丕賳 亘毓丿 賲毓丕賳丕賴 賲毓 賲乇囟 賲賳丕毓賷 賳丕丿乇 噩丿丕
卮賴乇 賲賳 丕賱噩賳賵賳 賵鬲卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賰鬲賷乇 賲賳 丕賱匕賴丕賳 賱賱鬲氐賱亘 丕賱賲鬲毓丿丿 賱賱鬲禺卮亘 賱賱卮賷夭賵賮乇賷賳賷丕 賱噩賳賵賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕亘 賵睾賷乇賴丕 賰鬲賷乇
乇丨賱丞 賲毓丕賴丕 賮賷 賲毓丕賳丕丞 胤賵賷賱丞 賲賳 賮賯丿丕賳 丕賳爻丕賳賷鬲賴丕
卮賴乇 賮賯丿鬲 賮賷賴 賰賱 丕丨爻丕爻賴丕 亘賳賮爻賴丕 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 賵賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賴賱賴丕 賲毓丕賴丕 賵賵賯賵賮賴賲 噩賳亘賴丕 胤賵賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 丿丕
鬲噩乇亘丞 丕毓丕丿鬲 賱賷賴丕 鬲乇鬲賷亘 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賵丕賵賱賵賷丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 鬲丕賳賷 賵毓乇賮鬲 賲賷賳 丨賯賷賯賷 賲爻鬲毓丿 賷賰賵賳 爻賳丿 賱賷賴丕
賰鬲丕亘 賲丐賱賲 噩丿丕丕丕丕 賵乇丕丕丕卅毓 亘卮賰賱 賰亘賷乇 毓乇賮賳賷 毓賱賶 賲乇囟 噩丿賷丿 賵丕毓乇丕囟 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賵乇毓亘 賳賮爻賷 賲賲賰賳 丕賷 丕賳爻丕賳 噩爻賲賴 賵賲禺賴 賷禺賵賳賴 賮賷 賱丨馗賴 賵賷賰賵賳 賮賷 賳賮爻 賲賵賯賮賴丕 丕賵 賲賵賯賮 賲卮丕亘賴 賱賷賴丕
卮賰乇丕 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賵卮賰乇丕 氐丿賷賯鬲賷 丿丕賱賷丕 賳賵乇 丕賱丿賷賳 賱賵賱丕 賲乇丕噩毓鬲賴丕 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 噩丿丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲卮 賴賮賰乇 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丿丕 丕亘丿丕鉂も潳
卮賴乇 賲賳 丕賱噩賳賵賳 賵鬲卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賰鬲賷乇 賲賳 丕賱匕賴丕賳 賱賱鬲氐賱亘 丕賱賲鬲毓丿丿 賱賱鬲禺卮亘 賱賱卮賷夭賵賮乇賷賳賷丕 賱噩賳賵賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕亘 賵睾賷乇賴丕 賰鬲賷乇
乇丨賱丞 賲毓丕賴丕 賮賷 賲毓丕賳丕丞 胤賵賷賱丞 賲賳 賮賯丿丕賳 丕賳爻丕賳賷鬲賴丕
卮賴乇 賮賯丿鬲 賮賷賴 賰賱 丕丨爻丕爻賴丕 亘賳賮爻賴丕 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 賵賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賴賱賴丕 賲毓丕賴丕 賵賵賯賵賮賴賲 噩賳亘賴丕 胤賵賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 丿丕
鬲噩乇亘丞 丕毓丕丿鬲 賱賷賴丕 鬲乇鬲賷亘 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賵丕賵賱賵賷丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 鬲丕賳賷 賵毓乇賮鬲 賲賷賳 丨賯賷賯賷 賲爻鬲毓丿 賷賰賵賳 爻賳丿 賱賷賴丕
賰鬲丕亘 賲丐賱賲 噩丿丕丕丕丕 賵乇丕丕丕卅毓 亘卮賰賱 賰亘賷乇 毓乇賮賳賷 毓賱賶 賲乇囟 噩丿賷丿 賵丕毓乇丕囟 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賵乇毓亘 賳賮爻賷 賲賲賰賳 丕賷 丕賳爻丕賳 噩爻賲賴 賵賲禺賴 賷禺賵賳賴 賮賷 賱丨馗賴 賵賷賰賵賳 賮賷 賳賮爻 賲賵賯賮賴丕 丕賵 賲賵賯賮 賲卮丕亘賴 賱賷賴丕
卮賰乇丕 爻賵夭丕賳丕 賵卮賰乇丕 氐丿賷賯鬲賷 丿丕賱賷丕 賳賵乇 丕賱丿賷賳 賱賵賱丕 賲乇丕噩毓鬲賴丕 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 噩丿丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲卮 賴賮賰乇 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丿丕 丕亘丿丕鉂も潳
June 5, 2017
I cannot figure out why it is so difficult for me to write reviews for books I am passionate about, or which I loved! In looking back at the books I've read on goodreads.com, I realized that almost all of the highest rated books on my shelves have 2 sentence reviews, if any. I guess that's why it's taken a month to figure out what exactly I want to say about Brain on Fire, a medical memoir by journalist Susannah Cahalan.
Where do I begin?! Cahalan develops a mysterious illness over the course of 2 months, which leads to an extended stay in NYU's Epileptic ward. Exhibiting symptoms of extreme psychosis and catatonia, her family and close friends' loyalty is put to the test as they seek answers and a cure for Cahalan's rapidly escalating condition.
One aspect of this book that I think is unique is that at the height of her illness, Cahalan loses her memory, and as a result has no recollection of her experiences, including her recovery. As a journalist, she pieces together the events leading up to her illness and it's aftermath by interviewing her family, friends, and doctors. NYU's research environment also provided much material by way of extensive notes and videos.
It's hard not to have affection for Susannah. I wish I could meet her. I so appreciate her sharing her story, especially when by doing so she exposed a side of herself that was not flattering. She writes:
鈥淲e are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.鈥� How true that is! Especially is this the case when either our or a loved one's body is ravaged by a disease. The "real person" is still there, but it can get so muddled up, and be so discouraging to witness.
I also appreciated the attention she drew to finding a diagnosis. I would have never believed how hard it is to "get well" unless I'd seen it with my own eyes. I am not sure if as a whole, society is desensitized to death, or if our view on life expectancy and the quality of life has diminished. At any rate, it seems as though doctors today don't think twice about sending you home to die, or suffer through whatever ailment you have. You have to fight for answers, persistently ask for a second opinion, and have darn good medical insurance coverage. What about those that fall through the cracks of that system? Cahalan happened to be at the right place, at the right time. So many others with her condition were misdiagnosed, and essentially sent home to die. It's disconcerting, but I am sure it happens so much on a daily basis.
If you're interested in reading this book, it's on sale for Kindle readers for $2.99 for the month of April. I was so entranced, I think I read it in 24 hours. I also felt the need to talk about it every chance I got! It's a great read. Check out her interview here on goodreads if I've piqued your interest.
Where do I begin?! Cahalan develops a mysterious illness over the course of 2 months, which leads to an extended stay in NYU's Epileptic ward. Exhibiting symptoms of extreme psychosis and catatonia, her family and close friends' loyalty is put to the test as they seek answers and a cure for Cahalan's rapidly escalating condition.
One aspect of this book that I think is unique is that at the height of her illness, Cahalan loses her memory, and as a result has no recollection of her experiences, including her recovery. As a journalist, she pieces together the events leading up to her illness and it's aftermath by interviewing her family, friends, and doctors. NYU's research environment also provided much material by way of extensive notes and videos.
It's hard not to have affection for Susannah. I wish I could meet her. I so appreciate her sharing her story, especially when by doing so she exposed a side of herself that was not flattering. She writes:
鈥淲e are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.鈥� How true that is! Especially is this the case when either our or a loved one's body is ravaged by a disease. The "real person" is still there, but it can get so muddled up, and be so discouraging to witness.
I also appreciated the attention she drew to finding a diagnosis. I would have never believed how hard it is to "get well" unless I'd seen it with my own eyes. I am not sure if as a whole, society is desensitized to death, or if our view on life expectancy and the quality of life has diminished. At any rate, it seems as though doctors today don't think twice about sending you home to die, or suffer through whatever ailment you have. You have to fight for answers, persistently ask for a second opinion, and have darn good medical insurance coverage. What about those that fall through the cracks of that system? Cahalan happened to be at the right place, at the right time. So many others with her condition were misdiagnosed, and essentially sent home to die. It's disconcerting, but I am sure it happens so much on a daily basis.
If you're interested in reading this book, it's on sale for Kindle readers for $2.99 for the month of April. I was so entranced, I think I read it in 24 hours. I also felt the need to talk about it every chance I got! It's a great read. Check out her interview here on goodreads if I've piqued your interest.
July 5, 2024
賱丕 卮賰 兀賳 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賲匕賰乇丕鬲 賵兀氐丿賯賴丕 賴賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 賷賰鬲亘賴丕 兀氐丨丕亘賴丕 賳鬲賷噩丞 賱賱鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 兀賵 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷丞 賵丕賱賲毓丕卮丞 丨賷孬 賱丕 亘丿 賲賳 丕賱廿賳丿賮丕毓 賮賷 丕賱卮毓賵乇 賵丕賱廿毓鬲乇丕賮 亘卮賰賱 賯賴乇賷 禺丕乇噩 賱賱廿乇丕丿丞
賵丨賷孬 賷鬲噩乇丿 丕賱卮禺氐 賲賳 賰賱 丨匕乇 賵禺賵賮 賱禺賱丕氐 乇賵丨賴貙 毓賳丿賴丕 賮賯胤 鬲亘丿兀 丕賱卮賮丕賮賷丞 賵賷馗賴乇 賲丕 賴賵 兀卮亘賴 亘丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱噩丿賷乇丞 亘丕賱賯乇丕亍丞...
爻賵夭丕賳 賰賴丕賱丕賳 氐丨丕賮賷丞 賳卮賷胤丞 鬲爻乇丿 賯氐鬲賴丕 賵賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴丕 賲毓 賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 賷氐賷亘 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賷胤賱賯 毓賱賷賴 (NMDA)
賵賴賵 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 丕賱鬲賴丕亘 賷氐賷亘 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賳鬲賷噩丞 賱賲賴丕噩賲丞 丕賱兀噩爻丕賲 丕賱賲囟丕丿丞 賱禺賱丕賷丕 丕賱丿賲丕睾
鬲亘丿兀 丨丕賱鬲賴丕 亘丕賱鬲丿賴賵乇 賮噩兀丞 賵鬲爻賵亍 丨丕賱鬲賴丕 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賵丕賱廿丿乇丕賰賷丞 賵兀氐亘丨鬲 鬲鬲兀乇噩丨 亘賷賳 丕賱賵毓賷 賵丕賱賱丕賵毓賷 賵毓丕賳鬲 賲賳 賴賱丕賵爻 賵丨丕賱丕鬲 匕賴賵賱 賵賳賵亘丕鬲 鬲卮賳噩 賵氐乇毓 賵鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 睾乇賷亘丞 禺丕乇噩賴 毓賳 丕賱廿乇丕丿丞
賵乇睾賲 毓賲賱 噩賲賷毓 丕賱鬲丨賱賷賱丕鬲 賵丕賱兀卮毓丕鬲 賮賷 兀卮賴乇 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 賱賲 賷鬲賵氐賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 賱卮賷亍 賮賯丿 馗賴乇鬲 噩賲賷毓 丕賱鬲丨賱賷賱丕鬲 爻賱賷賲丞貙 賵兀乇噩毓賵丕 丕賱爻亘亘 賱賲乇囟 毓賯賱賷 (丕賱卮賷夭賵賮乇賷賳賷丕貙 丕賱丕囟胤乇丕亘 丕賱賵噩丿丕賳賷 孬賳丕卅賷 丕賱賯胤亘)賵賰丕丿賵丕 兀賳 賷賵丿毓賵賴丕 賮賷 賲氐丨 毓賯賱賷 亘毓丿 兀賳 丕爻鬲爻賱賲 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷賷賳 賵毓噩夭賵丕 毓賳 丕賰鬲卮丕賮 丕賱爻亘亘...
毓賳丿 賴匕賴 丕賱賱丨馗丞 賷馗賴乇 胤亘賷亘 丕毓氐丕亘 毓亘賯乇賷 爻賵乇賷 爻賴賷賱 賳噩丕乇 賵亘丕禺鬲亘丕乇 亘爻賷胤 兀賲爻賰 胤乇賮 丕賱賲卮賰賱丞 賵毓賳丿賴丕 賯丕賱 賱賵丕賱丿賷 爻賵夭丕賳 兀賳 丿賲丕睾賴丕 賷卮鬲毓賱 馃敟馃敟馃敟
賵賱賲賳 賷賳鬲丕亘賴 丕賱賮囟賵賱 毓賳 賲丕 賴賵 丕賱丕禺鬲亘丕乇 丕賱亘爻賷胤 丕賱匕賷 毓賲賱賴 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 爻賴賷賱 賳賯賵賱 亘兀賳 丕賱丕禺鬲亘丕乇 賴賵 丕禺鬲亘丕乇 丕賱爻丕毓丞貙 賵胤乇賷賯鬲賴 亘兀賳 胤賱亘 賲賳 爻賵夭丕賳 亘兀賳 鬲乇爻賲 爻丕毓賴 丕賱丨丕卅胤 丕賱噩丿丕乇賷丞 丕賱丿丕卅乇賷丞 賵鬲囟毓 毓賱賷賴丕 丕賱兀乇賯丕賲
乇爻賲鬲賴丕 爻賵夭丕賳 賵賵囟毓鬲 噩賲賷毓 丕賱兀乇賯丕賲 賮賷 賳氐賮 丕賱丿丕卅乇丞 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賵亘賯賷 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱兀賷爻乇 禺丕賱賷丕 賲賳 丕賱兀乇賯丕賲 (賷賲賰賳 丕賱廿胤賱丕毓 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賵乇丞 賲賳 丕賱丕賳鬲乇賳鬲)
毓賳丿賴丕 兀丿乇賰 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 爻賴賷賱 兀賳 噩丕賳亘 賲禺賴丕 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賲賱鬲賴亘貙 賵亘毓丿賴丕 亘丿兀鬲 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賵丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 爻賵夭丕賳 氐丨鬲賴丕 賵賰鬲亘鬲 賴匕丕 丕賱賲匕賰乇丕鬲 賱賷爻 賮賯胤 賰爻亘賯 氐丨賮賷 賵賱賰賳 兀賷囟丕賸 賱賱鬲賵毓賷丞 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 賵賰匕賱賰 賱卮賰乇 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 爻賴賷賱 丕賱匕賷 兀氐亘丨 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 兀胤亘丕亍 丕賱兀毓氐丕亘 賮賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕 賵賷毓丕賱噩 丕賱丨丕賱丕鬲 丕賱睾丕賲囟丞 賵丕賱賲爻鬲毓氐賷丞....
賲賳 兀氐丿賯 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲 賲賳 丕賱賲匕賰乇丕鬲 丕賱禺丕乇噩丞 賲賳 丕賱賵毓賷 賵丕賱賱丕賵毓賷 賲毓丕賸貙 賵丕賱賲賱賷卅丞 亘丕賱賴賱丕賵爻 賵丕賱匕賴丕賳丕鬲 賵丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 賵丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 丕賱匕丕鬲 賵丕賱丕毓鬲乇丕賮 亘丕賱賮囟賱 賵乇丿 丕賱噩賲賷賱 賱賰賱 賲賳 爻丕毓丿賴丕 賵賵賯賮 賲毓賴丕.
賵丨賷孬 賷鬲噩乇丿 丕賱卮禺氐 賲賳 賰賱 丨匕乇 賵禺賵賮 賱禺賱丕氐 乇賵丨賴貙 毓賳丿賴丕 賮賯胤 鬲亘丿兀 丕賱卮賮丕賮賷丞 賵賷馗賴乇 賲丕 賴賵 兀卮亘賴 亘丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱噩丿賷乇丞 亘丕賱賯乇丕亍丞...
爻賵夭丕賳 賰賴丕賱丕賳 氐丨丕賮賷丞 賳卮賷胤丞 鬲爻乇丿 賯氐鬲賴丕 賵賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴丕 賲毓 賲乇囟 賳丕丿乇 賷氐賷亘 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賷胤賱賯 毓賱賷賴 (NMDA)
賵賴賵 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 丕賱鬲賴丕亘 賷氐賷亘 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賳鬲賷噩丞 賱賲賴丕噩賲丞 丕賱兀噩爻丕賲 丕賱賲囟丕丿丞 賱禺賱丕賷丕 丕賱丿賲丕睾
鬲亘丿兀 丨丕賱鬲賴丕 亘丕賱鬲丿賴賵乇 賮噩兀丞 賵鬲爻賵亍 丨丕賱鬲賴丕 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 賵丕賱廿丿乇丕賰賷丞 賵兀氐亘丨鬲 鬲鬲兀乇噩丨 亘賷賳 丕賱賵毓賷 賵丕賱賱丕賵毓賷 賵毓丕賳鬲 賲賳 賴賱丕賵爻 賵丨丕賱丕鬲 匕賴賵賱 賵賳賵亘丕鬲 鬲卮賳噩 賵氐乇毓 賵鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 睾乇賷亘丞 禺丕乇噩賴 毓賳 丕賱廿乇丕丿丞
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