The alliance seeks to educate both patients and medical practitioners about the disease, as well as connect current patients to survivors. To this end, she worked with two other families whose children developed the disease to create a nonprofit organization called the Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance in December of 2012.
Cahalan's illness and luck obtaining a diagnosis instilled in her the desire to spread her story as far as possible. Cahalan made a full recovery and, after writing a first-person account of her experience for the New York Post, she turned her article into her memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. She was only the 217th person in the world to be diagnosed with the disease.
In 2009, she became suddenly ill with a rare autoimmune disease, anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis. She began interning at the New York Post as a teenager and was hired full-time as a reporter in 2008.
Cahalan attended Washington University in St. Her parents divorced when she was a teenager, and both remarried. could have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life" ("People"), "Brain on Fire" is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.Cahalan was born in Summit, New Jersey. In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family's inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. An award-winning memoir and instant "New York Times" bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, "Brain on Fire" is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity.
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