Sorry for the dull movie, this warm and true book

Arielle 2022-01-17 08:01:30

The whole book is a super exciting "Doctor House". The author, 24-year-old Guliang Susannah, working as a reporter for the New York Post, suddenly began to have all kinds of strange symptoms. From the feeling that there was an insect bite on his left arm, he suddenly became frantic and out of control in a crowded area with foamy mouth and convulsions. , Developed to have various hallucinations, convinced that her father wants to kill her mother, and the whole world will harm me. She watched the video of herself on the hospital bed, it was like the devil possessed in the movie exorcist.

After various examinations by various doctors, it was impossible to find out the cause. If it hadn't been for the real life Dr House, a well-known doctor of Syrian immigrants, who had been diagnosed miraculously, Susannah would end up being sent to a mad house.

When listening to the book, I kept tugging and reminding myself that she was fine and she was healed. Following Susannah's narrative, he was anxious, pleased, moved, and warm. It's a pity that the movie version was completely smashed.

The world in front of Susannah has been completely rewritten by the burning brain, and her various cognitive abilities are gradually losing. She described as haggard, she is not as good as dead, and in the movie, she looks really good;

Susannah's mother is as vulnerable as we are in the book, crying because of the deterioration of her daughter's condition, and crying with joy because of the doctor's "I will find the cause". I don't know why the movie is replaced with a cold stepmother.

Susannah's boyfriend did a lot of things for her in the book to wake up the lover hidden in this new body. Unfortunately, in the movie he is just a foolish boy holding a guitar and waiting at the door of the ward.

Susannah's doctor, a genius doctor who had an extraordinary experience and almost became a stupid boy by a private teacher in Syria, became a national hero in Syria after being reported by a new York post. In the movie, it's the same as a blind cat and a dead mouse happen to be diagnosed successfully.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t watch this movie. This book is really heart-warming. This girl was diagnosed with this problem as the 217th patient. After her story was published, thousands of patients were found to be diagnosed with the same disease and received corresponding treatments. Treatment, rather than lingering in a lunatic asylum.

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Brain on Fire quotes

  • [first lines]

    Susannah Cahalan: Have you ever been trapped? Lost in your own body, lost in your own mind, lost in time? So desperate to escape, to just... Get out.

  • Susannah Cahalan: [yelling at the drippy faucet] What? What? Why won't you stop? Do it again! Say it! I didn't think so.