bettycjung Review of Brain on Fire

Brain on Fire (2016)

Cahalan's amazing journey of recovery from a terrible brain disease

[25 June 2018]

6/23/18. I read the book a few years ago and did not know they made it into a movie. Obviously, I had to watch it. It was a very good adaptation of the book, which I loved. It was good that Suzanne Cahalan recovered from this terrible brain condition to write about it. She could have wasted away in a psychiatric hospital because the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with her and wrote off her illness as a psychiatric condition. It wasn't until Dr. Najjar came on board, did the biopsy and gave her proper treatment that Cahalan's life turned around. Totally inspirational and worth watching.