Michele Rosenthal was only 13 years old when she developed Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Syndrome, a strange allergic reaction to a medication that put her in critical condition overnight.

In her own testimony,  Michele makes it clear in her descriptive About page on her website that a turn for the worse occured. She goes on to state:

” It didn’t take long for insomnia, intrusive thoughts, nightmares and flashbacks to set in. I didn’t tell anyone. I was determined to go back to who I’d been before my illness, so I avoided all mention of my trauma, pretended the past was behind me and ran as fast as I could into the future.

Within 5 years I was a complete and total insomniac, anorexic, melt down mess. Over the years everyone thought I was a difficult teenager, and then a temperamental artist, and then just a really moody woman. The therapists my parents forced me to see didn’t recognize my classic symptoms of PTSD.”