Post Traumatic Stress Disorder What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? The American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) defines Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a severe anxiety disorder in which a person is exposed to a traumatic event where: The person experienced or witnessed or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the…

There are a lot of people out there talking about teens who struggle but it's often hard to find people being real and honest and raw and....real (I know, said "real" twice, but that's what we need--real, real, real). This article--this is real and honest and raw.  And has some solid, applicable advice for any people out there who are trying mightily to parent a teen who struggles. Jen Hatmaker…

Teen huffing The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported in 2011 that nearly ten percent of teens aged twelve and up had tried huffing.  Inhalant abuse, or teen huffing, is a term used to describe the process of inhaling chemical vapors through the mouth and/or nose. Chemicals are poured onto a rag or into a bag and then held over the nose/mouth to be inhaled. They can also be inhaled…

Some of the boys at career days in Logan.