This column continues a 20-year-old tradition: I ask young people to share what they鈥檙e grateful for each Thanksgiving. It is humbling to know at least two generations of teens were part of these columns! I find this year鈥檚 comments especially thoughtful. To the young people in our ...
Q. I used to love Thanksgiving. I love the food (well, not the cranberry sauce, but everything else), and I love my family getting together. Maybe I should say I LOVED my family getting together. Ever since last year鈥檚 elections, it鈥檚 like they hate each other. My mom won鈥檛 talk with her ...
Q. Will you weigh in on a debate we had at school? My social studies teacher posed the question 鈥� 鈥�16-year-olds should be allowed to vote.鈥� We were assigned sides, and the conversation was intense. Although some of us were given the negative, and defended it, pretty much all of our ...
Q. I never thought this would happen to me, but could I be experiencing depression? I鈥檓 a first-year college student and I thought I鈥檇 be happy at this point in my life. I鈥檓 at a college I selected carefully. I like most of my classes, I鈥檝e made some friends. I feel like I鈥檓 managing ...
Here are some responses to my Oct. 9 column on suicide: Q. Thank you for your wise words on suicide. I lost my brother that way when I was a teen. I鈥檓 in my 60s and I feel I鈥檝e never really gotten over it. I鈥檝e lived my life, married, had babies, now I鈥檓 a grandma to three, and it ...
For Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski, the mission is personal. As founder of the UPMC Washington Teen Outreach, Podgurski has spent nearly four decades passionately working to close the gap between kids in crisis and the care they need. And now, Teen Outreach is expanding one of its education ...
