Feb. 23, 2023 – In 2017, during a year of study abroad in Paris, Michelle Cano Bravo began to have hallucinations, insomnia, and paranoia. She also had problems with her thinking skills – she would get lost frequently, even in places she knew.
“I had no idea what was happening,” the 25-year-old says. “I was like a dying dog under a house and just looked for solitude.”
During that period, Bravo, who today is a law student based in New York, tried to take her life twice.
After she returned to the U.S. in early 2018, she began to have more disturbing symptoms….