Susannah is a person who is diagnosed to 217 anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, an autoimmune disease. Immune system creates antibodies that attack the dangerous and NMDA receptors in the brain that are important for learning and behavior.
She was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy (IVIG), plasmapheris and steroids. He also got a PET scan and transvaginal ultrasounds every year as a follow-up treatment. He also wondered how the fate of people who have the disease 'mysterious' similar to himself. Because they do not get mad then appropriate treatment, so that people would never have recovered.
"I get asked, if it took a long time for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, then how many other people are not treated for or diagnosed with a mental illness living in nursing homes or psychiatric hospitals," wrote Susannah in book.
In mid-April 2009, Susannah allowed out of the hospital. Slowly he began to feel like his old self again. While it Susannah must continue treatment to prevent and treat anxiety, catatonia and psychosis.
Currently Susannah lives with her boyfriend in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was thankful no longer have a 'terror' in her life, and a person who's more concerned with health. Even at the age of 27 years Susannah still have to go to the doctor more often than people his age, but a medical condition has recovered Susannah.
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