[A] change of pace now. We're going to talk about a very unsettling topic. That's suicide.
It's one of the leading causes of death among teenagers in the United States.
Now the story of one survivor is spreading awareness about a devastating disease rampant among teens -- depression.
Allan Chernoff has the story.
The fact that Jordan Burnham is alive today is a miracle.
He is learning to walk again five months after suffering devastating injuries.
How Jordan came to this is a stunning story, offering life lessons for teens and their parents.
He was captain of his golf team at Upper Marion High in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, a baseball pitcher and an anchor on the school's news program.
One of the most popular seniors, having just been selected to homecoming court.
What happened?
Jordan tried to kill himself.
He jumped out of his bedroom window, nine stories up, and fell to the ground on his left side.
He fractured his leg, pelvis, arm, wrist and jaw, and was suffering severe internal bleeding.
After he was medevaced to the hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, doctors said he probably wouldn't make it.
Earlier in the day, Earl Burnham says he found beer and liquor in the trunk of Jordan's car.
Earl and Georgette were careful in confronting their son.
First checking with a therapist who was treating Jordan, before grounding him.
To friends at school, Jordan seemed happy, but there was a pressure cooker, boiling within his mind.
Pressure to achieve good grades like his valedictorian older sister,
to fit in at his nearly all-white high school and, above all, to not disappoint his parents.
I hold myself to a certain standard, and when I don't reach that standard
or I feel like I failed at something or I feel like I let myself down, then I get pretty down on myself.
Jordan was struggling academically and his parents had caught him drinking several times.
All the sudden, it was almost like I hit rock bottom.
That was as low as I could go.
That was as bad as the depression could've got.
I felt like, obviously, I had to take my own life just because I was letting my parents down and I didn't deserve to live anymore.
I had to have crawled out of that window and looked down and,
still, I was at such a low point that that didn't even back me off, that I still felt like I had to do it.
Earl and Georgette Burnham were involved parents, well aware of their son's depression.
For two years Jordan had been seeing a therapist and taking an antidepressant, but it wasn't enough.
Psychiatrist Jeffrey Staub treated Jordan after his suicide attempt.
Depression can be fatal even when we try and put all of the pieces together, with a psychiatrist, a therapist.
Suicide is the third leading cause of teenage death.
A result of the facts, say experts, that about one in every 20 teenagers suffers from clinical depression.
Jordan says he realizes now anyone who's depressed needs to talk it out.
Say what's on your mind and get out your thoughts and feelings,
because it's important, and that's the mistake that I made, was I tried to hide it from even myself.
A lesson Jordan and his parents hope will prevent other teens from attempting suicide.