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All the while I had to wonder why her family was just so adamantly opposed to the idea of [their daughter being tainted by] mental illness? I guess their skepticism paid in the end since that wasn't the cause of her symptoms, but truly that is how everything she suffered was presenting (her age at the time all of this happened also fits the bill). It seems hard to fathom that (ostensible) privilege can land you in an exclusive neuro ward when if she hadn't come from money she'd have surely been
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What a ride! I haven't stopped thinking about this poor woman's story since I started reading. Check out the review by fellow bibliophile Kats for a complete and much better review than I could write. But if you're interested in a true, and truly horrifying, experience of suffering an illness (specifically non NMDA receptor encephalitis) that displays all the characteristics of schizophrenia or other mental illness, then grab this and experience it with her.
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This book is a fascinating documentation of a reporter who started to have numbness in her hand, then progressed to seizures, and finally descended to madness. It reads like a detective story because she used her reporter skills after the fact to try and discover what happened to her. During the depths of her illness she lost reason and memory. She investigated by interviewing family, friends, doctors, and her boyfriend. She also did research on her condition and false leads like a feature write
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Fascinating book, well-written. I read it within a couple of days because it was so interesting!
3.5...maybe
Apr 01, 2013
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