Excellent first hand account of a brain infection that presents as mental illness. It's truly revealing how much stigma we put on mental illness and neurological problems when seen through the lens of the root issue being a "real" illness like encephalitis. The diagnostic tools most doctors use are inadequate, being subjective behavioral measures.

I've concluded from this book and other books on medicine and medical practice that we need to update medical practices to be data driven, starting with performing high resolution, full-body imaging every year. Any areas of inflammation, any odd tumors or large changes from previous scans demands immediate attention, and eliminate so much guesswork that plagues patients know, who know something is wrong, but encounter only doctors convinced they drink too much or are "crazy."