A Promise of Hope: The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted With Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her

برخی از کودکان \"بینی خانواده\" را به ارث می برند. پاییز استرینگام و برادرش جوزف اختلال دوقطبی خانوادگی را به ارث بردند، یک بیماری روانی شدید که منجر به خودکشی مادر و پدربزرگشان شد. پاییز، در 22 سالگی، روان پریشی بود و در بیمارستان روانی در حال خودکشی بود. جوزف، در 15 سالگی، مستعد حوادث خشونت آمیز بود، به طوری که خانواده از ترس جان خود می ترسید. اما بعد از اینکه آنها شروع به مصرف مکمل غذایی کردند که توسط پدرشان ساخته شده بود و به طرز باورنکردنی بر اساس فرمولی که به گرازهای پرخاشگر داده شده بود.

Some children inherit "the family nose." Autumn Stringam and her brother Joseph inherited the family bipolar disorder, a severe mental illness that led to their mother's and grandfather's suicides. Autumn, at 22, was psychotic and in a psychiatric hospital on suicide watch; Joseph, at 15, was prone to violent episodes so terrifying the family feared for their lives. But after they began taking a nutritional supplement developed by their father and based, incredibly, on a formula given to aggressive hogs—Autumn's and Joseph's symptoms disappeared. Today they both lead normal, productive lives.

A Promise of Hope is the personal story of Autumn Stringam's flight from madness to wellness, all due to the vitamin and mineral supplement that works on the premise that some forms of mental illness are caused by nutritional deficiencies. An honest book that exposes the hidden torment of bipolar disorder, it is the story of a daughter seeking to forgive her mother. A Promise of Hope is also an astonishing scientific account that moves from a kitchen table in Alberta to the treatment offices of a distinguished Harvard pshyciatrist and into the labs of a skeptical medial establishment. It climaxes in a bitter—but eventually triumphant—battle with Health Canada, in which the tiny supplement company is exonerated and praised for saving the lives of thousands of Canadians previously thought lost to mental illness. More than anything, A Promise of Hope is a powerful story and a call for a new understanding of the causes of mental illness and its treatments.