
Today, nearly a decade later, Cahalan still lives in New York and still works for the Post, having published her most recent article for the paper on June 16, writing about her experience of seeing a harrowing time in her life turned into a movie. When Cahalan was struck by her illness in 2009, she was one year into her job as a New York Post reporter. So where is the real Susannah from Brain on Fire now, and is she still feeling the effects of her horrific ordeal? The illness depicted on the film is truly the stuff nightmares are made of, but Cahalan made it through and is alive today. Brain on Fire is a medical mystery drama starring Chlöe Grace Moretz, and it's about the very real and extremely rare disorder that struck journalist Susannah Cahalan when she was just 24. Netflix's newest original film might be the most terrifying it's ever made, and it's not even a horror movie.
