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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an autoimmune disease can create symptoms that look exactly like schizophrenia, that raises the question, what is schizophrenia? And are there forms of schizophrenia that are caused by other types of autoimmune disease?
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- Nov 07, 2020
We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we treated people with cancer like that. Just because your personality changes and your behaviour changes, all of a sudden you are put in a different category.
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- Nov 07, 2020
NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first neurologist I saw just thought I was partying too much, and he stuck by that claim even after my family insisted that he was wrong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew something was wrong; I was constantly tired, and I'd developed numbness on my left side. I'd also become paranoid that my boyfriend was cheating on me. I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. One psychiatrist told me I was bipolar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first 'I love you's' - chronicled in my 2012 memoir 'Brain on Fire' - occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I was at my sickest, I couldn't read or write. I could barely walk on my own or groom myself. The disease felled me physically and mentally - robbing me, briefly but intensely, of my wits, my sanity, my memory, my self.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't have been able to write a book that did as well as it did, and that book should never have been made into a movie. Yet, here I am.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would wear and how much weight I wanted to lose. I lost my perspective.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My diagnosis had been discussed in almost every major medical journal, including the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' and 'The New York Times.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
- Illness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To hear the words 'autoimmune encephalitis' in a movie is amazing to me, and I'm so proud.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my 'bowel releasing' schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is the black box: the final frontier.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be your own advocate.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I think that there's a lot missing from the recovery or the post-diagnosis side of treating patients. Once the diagnosis is made, I feel that care drops off tremendously, even though it is precisely the time that a patient needs help the most, even if they are not verbalizing it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I heart Scott Baio.
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- Nov 07, 2020