Cahalan susannah5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() My moods fluctuated from extreme happiness to despondency in a matter of minutes. Later, my behavior became increasingly irrational. Then, I felt numbness on the left side of my body, which my neurologist ascribed to “mono.” But I didn’t link my odd feelings with this physical experience. I thought my boyfriend was cheating on me and went in search of nonexistent clues of his philandering. I became fixated on certain things: I believed I had bedbugs to the point that I urged an exterminator to debug my apartment even when he insisted I didn’t have an infestation. At first, I just felt “off.” I was tired and emotional. Susannah Cahalan (SC): The earliest symptoms were subtle. Can you describe some of the symptoms that you experienced during that time? ![]() Howard Forman (HF): In Brain on Fire, your debut book that has been called by NPR “stunningly brave” and a “gift of a book from one of America’s most courageous young journalists,” you write about some harrowing experiences that occurred during 2009, when you were 24 years old. Psychiatric Times will shortly be publishing its own review of the book. ![]() Recently she answered some questions for Psychiatric Times via e-mail about her recently published memoir, which explores a subject of vital importance to psychiatrists. She currently works at New York Post as a book reviewer and reporter. Her work has appeared in Scientific American,Psychology Today, and TheNew York Times. Susannah Cahalan is TheNew York Times best-selling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. ![]()
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