Courtesy of the Etkin Lab at Stanford University Though post-
traumatic stress disorder is often associated with war veterans,
many sufferers have yet to even finish high school. Though post-
traumatic stress disorder is often associated with war veterans,
many sufferers have yet to finish high school. According to the
National Survey of Adolescents, about 4 percent of teenage boys
and 6 percent of teenage girls meet the clinical definition of
PTSD. But adolescents can be hard to diagnose. 'A Total
Nightmare' The night Stephanie Romero turned 23, she and a
friend were attacked by a stranger. "My friend went outside to
have a cigarette, and there was this guy — he came out; he was
harassing us," she says. The man hit her and her friend, leaving
Romero shocked. "It was just a total nightmare," she says. "I
think about it all the time. I've never gone through anything
like that." After the attack, Romero's friends and family
noticed she was acting differently. She didn't go out as often.
Her weight started changin