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If you only read one book about epilepsy, make this the one | November 22, 2024

You’ve probably never heard of Kurt Eichenwald, but once you read “A Mind Unraveled, you’ll wonder why.

It’s compelling, inspiring, powerful, informative and takes you to places you’ve never been before. No matter what kind of epilepsy you have.

“A Mind Unrivaled” by Kurt Eichenwald “reads like a medical thriller, at times truly frightening but also deeply inspiring. This book will make me think differently as a doctor. Kurt Eichenwald is a tremendously talented writer. When you travel on his personal journey, it is pure gold.” –Sanjay Gupta, M.D., chief medical correspondent, CNN

“A Mind Unrivaled left me overwhelmed and speechless. Eichenwald’s story is breathtaking: devastation and inspiration all under one cover.” — Susan Axelrod, founder of CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy)

“This powerful account provides an important blueprint for anyone struggling to overcome serious challenges.” — Katie Couric

With bracing honesty, an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestseller reveals his struggle with with intractable epilepsy — and his decades-long conviction that he could not only strive but thrive.

As a college freshman, Kurt Eichenwald awoke one night on the floor of his dorm room, confused and in pain.

In the aftermath of that critical moment, his once care-free life would be consumed by confrontations with medical incompetence, discrimination that almost cost him his education and employment, physical abuse and dark moments where he contemplated suicide.

This is the story of one man’s battle to pursue his dreams despite an often debilitating brain disorder.

From his early experiences of fear and denial to his exasperating search for treatment, Eichenwald provides a deeply candid account of his years facing his misunderstood and often stigmatized condition.

He details his the encounters with the doctors whose neglect could have have killed him, but for the heroic actions of a brilliant neurologist and the family and friends who found for him.

Ultimately, “A Mind Unraveled” is an inspirational story, one that chronicles how Eichenwald, faced often with his own mortality, transformed trauma into reaching the future he desired.

Defying relentless threats to his emotional and physical well-being, he affirmed his decision never to give up, and in the process learned how to rise from the depths of despair to the heights of unimagined success.

“Poignant and infuriating . . . merges elements of medical drama, anti-discrimination fable, and coming-of-age memoir.” — The New Yorker

“Kurt Eichenwald’s memoir is an immensely moving and captivating chronicle of his struggle with epilepsy. His unflinching descriptions of the extreme challenges of his condition have much to teach all of us about living. This an extraordinary book.” — Harriet Lerner, PH.D., New York Times best-selling author of “The Dance of Anger”

A Mind Unraveled” A Memoir by Kurt Eichenwald — New York Times Bestselling Author

$15.59 Paperback, Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Unraveled-Memoir-Kurt-Eichenwald/dp/039959362

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