Inside the "troubled teen" industry, when help sometimes does more harm

Tamara Ceaikovski

Taylor Kiesel says she hasn't slept through the night in three years. "I wake up screaming, in a panic," the 20-year-old said. These days she surrounds herself with reptiles she's been collecting since childhood — Russian tortoises, geckos and snakes. Starting an animal rescue operation out of her home just outside Seattle has helped her turn what she calls "anger and sadness and passion" into something purposeful. Getting to this point, she says, wasn't the result of the mental health