the idea that someday a treatment might achieve a lot more, longer, than taking mood stabilizing pills each day can do.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," just popped to mind. Had to look up the rest of it.

"...it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”