Title: Louder than words
Description: Three teen authors describe their experiences with a mother's death and a father's murder, the struggle of a Mennonite with West Nile virus, and life with situational depression and trichotillomania, the urge to pull out all one's hair.
Subjects: Girls, Biography, Mentally ill, Compulsive hair pulling, West Nile fever, Bereavement, Teenagers, Mennonites, Patients, Women
Places: United States
People: Marni Bates, Chelsey Shannon, Emily Smucker