“ Thomas Moore said: It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. Susannah Cahalan
“ Maybe it’s true what Thomas Moore said: It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. Susannah Cahalan
“ In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later, that figure had doubled. Now the number is in the thousands. Yet… Susannah Cahalan
“ Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed. Susannah Cahalan
“ I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the back of a spin class, avoiding everyone’s gaze? This uncertainty about who I am, this confusion over where… Susannah Cahalan
“ I had asked him many times why he stayed, and he always said the same thing: “Because I love you, and I wanted to, and I knew you were in there.” No matter how damaged I had been, he had loved me enou… Susannah Cahalan
“ The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I… Susannah Cahalan
“ The mind is like a circuit ofChristmas tree lights. When thebrain works well, all of the lightstwinkle brilliantly, and it’s adaptableenough that, often, even if one bulbgoes out, the rest will still… Susannah Cahalan
