Researchers may have superior skills to analyze data, but we have the children. Parents note things that researchers miss. Develop computerized charting methods by which parents may record observational data at home, transmitted to researchers via the Internet. The possibilities are vast and exciting. Why not intervene long before bipolar illness derails their development like an oncoming train, wrecks their schooling and self-esteem, sends them into the abyss of suicidal despair and hurls many of their genetically vulnerable parents into the same abyss, their own depression triggered by the stress of their children s relentless suffering compounded by the judgment of professionals that they are, somehow, to blame.
Collaborative efforts hold such great promise.
There is no time to lose in the life of a child. Let us begin. CABF needs funds to grow.