Brain on Fire

[Endless]

Girl with unexplained seizures as well as some serious psychiatric symptoms. She was institutionalized, written off with a non-functioning brain, now she is cured. It just took one very smart doctor who didn't dismiss it and wouldn't give up.

Brain On Fire

 

[Nakamova]

From the article Cahalan and her book (italics mine):

Cahalan wants her story to help people who might “otherwise get lost in the system.” She tells Shine, “We don’t understand how neurological autoimmune disorders work. They are so under diagnosed. About 75% occur in women who may get told they are just stressed. Or they are hysterical. My disease was only discovered in 2007—how many more diseases haven’t been identified yet?”

 

[Rae1889]

Scary! and this article makes me think of Danjor, for some reason.

 

[Cint]

And here is an excerpt from her book and herself and the dr. who treated her, shown on Katie Couric's show:

http://www.katiecouric.com/on-the-s...eries-could-your-prescription-drugs-kill-you/

 

[Nakamova]

More about this disease (called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis) which features seizures and psychosis:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...c-psychosis/dyixxnwdHJJIUITsNYJC3O/story.html