"Hell and back"

New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose tells about his decision to seek mental health treatment after his journey "to the edge of the post-Katrina abyss." He writes:

Today, I can bring my kids to school in the morning and mingle effortlessly with the other parents. Crowds don't freak me out. I'm not tired all day, every day. I love going to the grocery store. I can pump gas. I notice the smell of night-blooming jasmine and I play with my kids and I clean up after my dog and the simplest things, man -- how had they ever gotten so hard?

"Paying a price for their service"

Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune projects editor Eric Newhouse profiles the 163rd Infantry Battalion, a Montana National Guard unit that was deployed to Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

Trauma lingers on quake anniversary

BBC correspondent Barbara Plett visits Badhiara, Kashmir, one year after the earthquake that killed 75,000 in Pakistan and India.

"A bitter secret"

In the Philadelphia Inquirer, reporter Michael Vitez tells the story of an incest survivor.