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Brein in brand: Hoe mijn lichaam mijn hersenen aanviel by Willem van Paassen, Susannah Cahalan

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challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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reflective medium-paced

3.0

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emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

This was recommended to me years go, so I'm glad I finally picked it up. It was a wild ride and definitely created some new fears for me. Cahalan is a solid writer (I mean she's a journalist by profession, so that's probably expected), but her ability to reflect on this time period is impressive. Her use of different sources to piece together what happened made for a really impactful book. It was hard to read this knowing that this was a true story. I really appreciated the ending where Cahalan discussed other people with the same condition and how fortunate she had been to have the resources and access to medical care that she did. 
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challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

After reading this book, the hypochondriac in me is grateful to know the existence of this disease, in case it happens to me and I need a doctor to look into it.

I’m sorry she had to go through this. My mom was misdiagnosed for a long time, and by the time we finally got an accurate diagnosis, we had only three weeks left together. So I know a little about this, even though my mom’s disease was something entirely different. As such, my compassion meter was very high on this one.
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5.0

This was a great read about the horrifying reality of undiagnosed illnesses and how so many can closely resemble one another. I can relate to a lot of the things Susannah reported about her own illness, such as all tests coming back normal. It takes a caring and determined doctor to keep trying when all else fails. 
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dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

2.0

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