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[A] change of pace now. We're going to talk about a very unsettling topic. That's suicide.  
接下來換個不同步調的話題，我們要來看一則讓人稍感不安的新聞，自殺。  

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It's one of the leading causes of death among teenagers in the United States.  
自殺是美國青少年名列前幾大的死因。  

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Now the story of one survivor is spreading awareness about a devastating disease rampant among teens -- depression.  
現在有個自殺生還者的故事，要讓大家認識一種在青少年間常見的疾病──憂鬱症。  

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Allan Chernoff has the story.
艾倫‧契諾夫的報導。

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The fact that Jordan Burnham is alive today is a miracle.  
喬登‧伯罕現在還能活著是個奇蹟。  

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He is learning to walk again five months after suffering devastating injuries.
他在受重傷五個月後開始再次學習走路。

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How Jordan came to this is a stunning story, offering life lessons for teens and their parents.  
喬登走到這個地步的過程很令人震驚，可供青少年和家長們作為生命課題的借鏡。  

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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.
他曾是賓州普魯士王市上城區馬瑞安高中的高爾夫校隊隊長，擔任棒球投手，還是學校新聞節目的主播。

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One of the most popular seniors, having just been selected to homecoming court.
他是最受歡迎的高年級生之一，才剛入選為返校節官廷成員。

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What happened?  
發生了什麼事呢？  

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Jordan tried to kill himself.  
喬登試圖自殺。  

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He jumped out of his bedroom window, nine stories up, and fell to the ground on his left side.  
他從九樓高的臥房窗戶一躍而下，身體左側著地。  

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He fractured his leg, pelvis, arm, wrist and jaw, and was suffering severe internal bleeding.  
他摔斷了腿、骨盆、手臂、手腕和下顎，而且嚴重內出血。  

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After he was medevaced to the hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, doctors said he probably wouldn't make it.
他被緊急送到賓州大學附設醫院後，醫生宣佈他恐怕撐不過來了。

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Earlier in the day, Earl Burnham says he found beer and liquor in the trunk of Jordan's car.  
厄爾‧伯罕說，那天事發之前，他在喬登車上的行李箱發現了啤酒和烈酒。  

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Earl and Georgette were careful in confronting their son.  
厄爾和喬潔特態度謹慎地面對兒子。  

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First checking with a therapist who was treating Jordan, before grounding him.
他們先向當時喬登的心理治療師請教，然後才將他禁足。

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To friends at school, Jordan seemed happy, but there was a pressure cooker, boiling within his mind.  
對學校裡的朋友而言，喬登看似快樂，但他的內心卻像個煮沸的壓力鍋。  

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Pressure to achieve good grades like his valedictorian older sister, 
這些壓力包括：要和他那位擔任畢業生致詞代表的姊姊一樣拿到好成績、

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to fit in at his nearly all-white high school and, above all, to not disappoint his parents.
要融入他就讀的這所幾乎全白人的高中，以及最重要的──不讓父母親失望。

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I hold myself to a certain standard, and when I don't reach that standard 
我要求自己達到一定的標準，一旦我達不到那個標準，

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or I feel like I failed at something or I feel like I let myself down, then I get pretty down on myself.
或者我覺得自己沒做到什麼，或覺得我讓自己失望了，我的心情就會相當低落。

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Jordan was struggling academically and his parents had caught him drinking several times.
喬登在學業方面唸書唸得很辛苦，他的父母好幾次逮到他喝酒。

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All the sudden, it was almost like I hit rock bottom.  
忽然間，我就好像掉到了谷底，  

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That was as low as I could go.  
低得不能再低了。  

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That was as bad as the depression could've got.  
憂鬱症最糟的狀況也不過如此。  

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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.  
我覺得顯然我非自殺不可，因為我讓爸媽失望，我不配再活下去了。  

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I had to have crawled out of that window and looked down and, 
我非爬出那扇窗戶不可，然後往下看，

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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.
但是當時的我心情低落到樓層的高度都無法讓我退卻，我仍覺得自己非這麼做不可。

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Earl and Georgette Burnham were involved parents, well aware of their son's depression.  
厄爾和喬潔特都屬於參與型的父母，他們很清楚自己的兒子有憂鬱症。  

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For two years Jordan had been seeing a therapist and taking an antidepressant, but it wasn't enough.  
喬登看了兩年心理治療師，並且服用抗憂鬱藥物，但這麼做並不夠。  

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Psychiatrist Jeffrey Staub treated Jordan after his suicide attempt.
心理學家傑佛瑞史塔布在喬登企圖自殺後開始治療他。

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Depression can be fatal even when we try and put all of the pieces together, with a psychiatrist, a therapist.
就算我們心理治療師設法拼湊出所有問題的原因，憂鬱症仍然可能致命。

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Suicide is the third leading cause of teenage death.  
自殺是青少年的第三大死因。  

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A result of the facts, say experts, that about one in every 20 teenagers suffers from clinical depression.  
專家表示，這是因為大約每二十名青少年就有一個罹患臨床憂鬱症。  

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Jordan says he realizes now anyone who's depressed needs to talk it out.
喬登說他現在知道凡是有憂鬱症的人都必須把心事說出來。

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Say what's on your mind and get out your thoughts and feelings, 
說出自己的心事，把你的想法和感覺告訴別人，

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because it's important, and that's the mistake that I made, was I tried to hide it from even myself.
因為這點很重要，我就是犯了這個錯，我甚至對自己都隱瞞心事。

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A lesson Jordan and his parents hope will prevent other teens from attempting suicide.
喬登和他的父母希望這個課題能遏阻其他青少年嘗試自殺。