Through her experience, Cahalan has become interested in mental health and psychiatry and how it’s separated from physical health. I would venture to say I was diagnosed far quicker than most people were at that time.” “At the end of the day I was actually diagnosed very quickly in the scheme of things because the illness itself was so rare,” she said. And with her symptoms, many people get pushed into psychiatric hospitals when the cause isn’t psychiatric. It took a month to get a diagnosis while others can wait years to receive one. I think it will lead to a conversation that’s larger than my story and the more people that can engage in that conversation the better if you ask me.”Ĭahalan said she considers herself lucky. “I do think this will lead to more understanding about these kinds of illnesses and I think disease in general and mental health. “It’s not my story anymore, in a way,” she said.
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