12 Compelling and Candid Books on Mental Health

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Twenty-four-year old Susannah Cahalan has a seemingly normal life as a New York Post reporter until one day, she wakes up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. Susannah has absolutely no memory of how she’d gotten there. This New York Times bestseller tells the bizarre and jarring story of one woman’s journey through insanity, and how she was diagnosed with a mysterious condition.