A team of doctors would spend a month - and more than a million dollars - trying desperately to pin down a medical explanation for what had gone wrong. In this swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into madness and the brilliant, lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. Who was the stranger who had taken over her body? What was happening to her mind? Only weeks earlier, Susannah had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: a healthy, ambitious college grad a few months into her first serious relationship and a promising career as a cub reporter at a major New York newspaper. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records - chronicling a month long hospital stay of which she had no memory at all - showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak.
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