Mind on fire

Suzana Khalan, a journalist, found herself fighting a rare mental illness, so she decided to document her illness through writing. Her writing about this illness and in general the experience of having a rare disease helped many in the journey of diagnosis and treatment, and most importantly in psychological adaptation to the consequences of having a rare disease, and resisting what is called the stigma of rare disease. The most beautiful thing in the book is Khalan's ability to combine scientific facts with her personal suffering, and the role her family played in facing her illness. In the book's chapters, you see the combination of investigative journalism to find a diagnosis at the beginning, then Suzana's journey to uncover the truth of what she went through during this month of madness.