Susannah Cahalan : (3) " It’s hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness. " - Susannah Cahalan " In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon – in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people. " - Susannah Cahalan " The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first ‘I love you’s’ – chronicled in my 2012 memoir ‘Brain on Fire’ – occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant. " - Susannah Cahalan