Twenty-four-year-old, Susannah Cahalan, experienced identity loss during her month of madness and her time of recovery where she lost her personality and her memory of her illusional era. She was diagnosed with Anti-NMDA-receptor Autoimmune encephalitis which is when your body immune system attacks your brain. It all started with bedbug illusions, tiredness, identity loss, and numbness on her left leg and foot. She went to see a neurologist who diagnosed her with mononucleosis also known as the kissing disease, she became paranoid seeing hallucinations, and she had her first seizure of many to come. Later she became catatonic, where she stared into space, and with the help of her doctors, especially Dr. Najjar and Dr. Dalmau, she was able to
