Brain On Fire Book Review

Imagine losing your whole family in one week, now imagine half of a population being wiped out. Armenian genocide killed half the population between the years 1915 and 1917. People were taken from their homes, imprisoned, and killed. The book Forgotten Fire, written by Adam Bagdasarian, is about a 13-year-old Armenian boy who survives the genocide. Vahan embarked on a long tough journey to get to safety in Constantinople where he would be free from the Turkish government.

One day she was observed struggling to breathe. The author discovered that Karen had a bottle of tablets when he removed the bed covers. She had taken an overdose in an attempt to commit suicide. She was taken to Deacon’s Hospital Intensive Care Unit to pump out the stomach contents and also to neutralise the effect of the overdose. Karen had declared that she never wanted to go to the hospital should her condition gets worse. When Karen was now aware where she was, she complained to the author who apologised and said he would not let her pass on when he can do something about it. From Intensive Care Unit she was transferred to a private ward for recuperating.

I recommend the book Firestarter because the book has so much excitement. The book also has a lot of mystery. you don’t know what will happen next and you don’t know what happened back in the past. The characters always talk about their past and it explain only a little bit about it. There is so much thrill in the book there is some crazy stuff that happens in the book like how the FBI and CIA follow the dad and daughter. The books excitement is when Andy, the dad, and Charlie, the daughter, were walking down New York late at night and they were being followed. Andy kept trying to get a cab in the middle of the city. When Andy finally got a cab the people who were following him got out the car and tried to stop him from leaving they yelled police stop and Andy told the taxi driver to step on it.

In his book Forgotten Fire, author Adam Bagdasarian investigates the Armenian Genocide through the eyes of a twelve year old Armenian boy named Vahan Kenderian. Through Vahan, the reader experiences the atrocities committed during the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey. The Turks, who were Muslim, viewed the Christian Armenians as inferiors and treated them as such; under Turkish law, Armenians had nearly no rights, no fair justice in Turkish courts, could not bear arms, and were taxed far higher than Turks, which led to many families losing their possessions and homes. But unlike many other Armenian families of the time, Vahan's family, consisting of two girls, four boys (including Vahan), Vahan's Uncle Mumpreh, grandmother Toumia, and

Susannah Cahalan, a 24 year old, healthy and successful journalist for the New York post, experienced an acute onset of psychosis. Symptoms ranged from paranoia to seizures, which eventually led to a catatonic state. The onset of the female’s symptoms occurred when she became paranoid of a bed bug infestation in her home, yet after having her home exterminated there was no indication of bedbugs. Concern arose from her nonexistent appetite and severe insomniac behaviors. She began noticing her own erratic behaviors and shortly after experienced her first seizure episode. In search of an answer to reoccurring seizures she went to a physician who put her on Keppra (an antiseizure medication) and warned her the symptoms were due to stress and heavy drinking. The increasing paranoia developed into hallucinations, people plotting against her or speaking poorly of her. EEG and MRI results exhibited normal results; further indicating stress and alcohol withdraw. After being admitted to the NYU medical school EEG monitoring floor, examination showed tangential, disorganized, and temperamental behaviors. Several escape attempts later, placed Susannah in the more difficult patients category. Doctors suggested conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and cancer. She exhibited abnormally high blood pressure pointing to extreme concern.

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She was for sure the that pests had attacked her studio even though the exterminator found no sign of bedbugs, but Cahalan insisted to spray for them just in case. She hid her bug bites from her co-workers. She had a fear that they would judge her if they thought she had bed bugs. She began to get scared and hallucinate. Susannah’s love ones all began to see Susannah that they didn’t know in the past, she had mental and emotional issues. As the disease worsen, her movements became awkward, her speech became slurred, and having seizures. Doctors kept on saying she was normal and no type of disease would show up on her results. A doctor admitted her into New York University medical school hospital. Cahalan was in the hospital about a month before the accurate diagnosis, prior to the other doctors thought of a plethora of conditions and a bipolar disease and schizophrenia to dire physical ailments including cancer. There was a doctor named Dr. Najjar who was known for solving medical mysteries and didn’t take long to figure out what was the problem. He gave her a simple clock test and ask her to draw a clock with all the numbers. When drew the full clock, he knew immediately that the

The book Brain on Fire, written by Susannah Cahalan, accurately portrays how an event, a conversation, or just one day, can change someone’s life. Susannah led a prosaic life, until she ended up in the hospital with an unknown diagnosis. In that hospital, she was labeled violent, psychotic and a flight risk, as well as spent several weeks in the hospital, meeting many different doctors hoping to find a cure to her unidentified disease.The critical moments in Susannah Cahalan’s life changed her physically, mentally, and taught her to appreciate family.

If you went through a month of madness, in which it took over twelve doctors to diagnose a disease for, how would you view American Healthcare? Susannah Cahalan, author of the book Brain on Fire, went through a month of madness fighting Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. This diagnosis was not reached for over a month after her first visit to a doctor. In this time, she saw over twelve doctors and received many misdiagnoses for her disease, such as mono. Due to her poor experience with American Healthcare, Susannah Cahalan portrays the state of American Healthcare as negative in her book, Brain on Fire.

Brain on Fire was a book wrote by Susannah Cahalan this was her story of the rare disease she got, this made her co-workers, friends, and loved ones worried about her although she was one tough girl her actions were saying different. Cahalan was a beautiful twenty-four-year-old woman who lived in New York and was just a normal writer for the New York Post.

Several books, movies, plays, or even music lure people into escaping the monotonous nature of reality. In spite of these attention sucking media, Susannah Cahalan’s book Brain on Fire was an extravgant, advetourous, horrifying adventure through her life and how she filled in the gaps as she went along through out her journey. We all lose track through our daily lives and do not always realize that others have it worse than we all do, especially dealing with our health on a day to day basis. Cahalan had no clue on what she had endured until she was cured and use books that her family wrote to fill in the details on what she does not remember. I thought, overall, her book was very truthful, but to what extent do we believe what her book says

He draws articulated figures that he hangs on the door of his bedroom. “Every night, they stand guard while I sleep. They engage in terrible battles against nocturnal threads” (David B, 83). His imagination is so deep that he is able to imagine all of these things while having the seizures. “I need to double check the safeguards that I’ve built for myself.

Doctors do standard medical tests, such as blood and urine tests, to resolve other possible cause. Perform brain scans like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT). Conduct a memory test, problem solving, counting, and speech. Further, assessment and diagnosis can be done by the specialist including Geriatricians, Geriatric psychiatrists (specialize in the mental behavior of older adults), Neurologist (specialize abnormalities of the brain) and Neuropsychologist (who execute a memory test). A definite diagnosis is made only after death by a clinical measures and examination of the brain tissue during an

T.G is a 20 year old female, who currently attend a small college near her home in Virginia. This is T.G sophomore year at the University. T.G is a white adolescent with brown freckles on her face, with brown hair that stops at the end of her neck. T.G height is 5’4 and weights from the average of 120-125. T.G is the last child out of four other children’s. T.G was raised in a traditional Haitian home, with over protective, strict, and demanding parents. For the past six days T.G has gone without any sleep, and spent most of the time in a heightened state of activity, which T.G describe as “out of control”. At times T.G behaviors are characterized as weird and flamboyant that comes off very mystical or in sensual tone. T.G also had bizarre thinking, she worries a lot that she will forget her thoughts, and T.G also deals with intense depression.

She was forced to rely on outside sources to piece the events together. Her paranoia and mood swings continued and she experienced jamais-vu, becoming incapable of recognizing familiar people and things. Despite countless routine medical tests, it wasn't until Dr. Najjar, who specialized in medical mysteries, was put on her case that any headway was made. By going through her entire history of symptoms, he connected the numbness that had spread to the left side of Cahalan's body and gave her the simple test of drawing a clock. It revealed that the right side of her brain was inflamed, when she only wrote numbers on the right side of the clock. The diagnosis was confirmed with a brain biopsy that narrowed down her disease to specifically anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. Determining that Cahalan had a Dalmau's disease, doctors could start treatment with steroids, IVIG treatment, and plasmapheresis . Within seven months she was able to go back to work; however, it was still many years before she felt truly comfortable in her own skin again. Cahalan's biggest story that ran in the Post was about her lost month and the article spread knowledge of the disease.