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Book Review of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Is there a possibility that children who are diagnosed with autism or adults who seem to have schizophrenia actually are misdiagnosed? That instead they are victims of this rare and hard to track disease instead? This book shows how the author had all the symptoms of madness and was on the verge of being admitted for mental illness. The doctors who persisted in finding the true cause of her sudden onset of illness had only recently discovered this brain inflammation...and brought her back to her self again. An amazing story of her lost month. D.