It’s ironic. The man who brought us the sunroof – suffered with darkness – ultimately taking his own life. The Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund is fighting back!
In 2001, Waltraud “Wally” Prechter began her fight to find a cure as an honor to her husband, Heinz and to save her daughter. After more than ten years of fighting, and having started the fund that supports the world’s most ambitious research into bipolar disorder, Wally’s enormous contribution has brought us to a place where we are finally beginning to see important progress.
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Julie A. Fast uses her extensive research and personal experience to offer strategies for managing bipolar disorder. Read more in this Q&A about how her insights can guide confident management and deepen our understanding of this brain-based illness. Julie A. Fast is a recognized authority in the mental health field. She is known for her...
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment-resistant bipolar symptoms is a subject of much debate and stigma. While some credit it with giving them back their lives, others struggle with the loss of cherished memories. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), with over eight decades of use in psychiatry, remains a subject of intense debate. Despite advancements and extensive research,...
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This research is very encouraging and so necessary as decades are lost while struggling through the traumas of Bipolar Disorder especially with the more unstable forms of Rapid Cycling which are notoriously difficult to treat where there are often no periods of well or stable mood in between highs and lows at all. This is the hardest to deal wiith so we welcome any research. It can’t come soon enough. Thank you all for what you are doing.
This reminds me of an article an obituary actually of one Ted Stanley, the father of Joseph, who was successfully treated for bipolar disorder, Even so, the father, the late Ted Stanley, donated 800 billion dollars over his life, mostly to “The Broad Institute” for further research into innovative new treatments. In the end the son, after his father’s passing said, “My Dad did it just right.” Can you imagine? This was a great article. It just goes to show there is hope. With generous people like these and ambitious scientists and researchers, medicine continues to get better. This is what I remind myself when I’m a bit down. Help is on the way.
So encouraged by this study! As the wife of a wonderful man suffering with Bipolar depression, there is nothing more I want then a treatment that is long term or better yet, a cure.