Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years
on a locked psychiatric ward. They're not just failing in school,
not just using drugs. They are out of control--violent or suicidal,
in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Their
futures are at risk.
Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. But
astonishingly, a handful are thriving. They're off drugs and on the
right side of the law. They've finished school and hold jobs that
matter to them. They have close friends and are responsible, loving
parents.
What happened? How did some kids stumble out of the woods while
others remain lost? Could their strikingly different futures have
been predicted back during their teenage struggles? The kids
provide the answers in a series of interviews that began during
their hospitalizations and ended years later. Even in the early
days, the resilient kids had a grasp of how they contributed to
their own troubles. They tried to make sense of their experience
and they groped toward an understanding of other people's inner
lives.
In their own impatient voices, "Out of the Woods" portrays edgy
teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Listening
in on interviews through the years, narratives that are often
poignant, sometimes dramatic, frequently funny, we hear the kids
growing into more composed--yet always recognizable--versions of
their tough and feisty selves.
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