20080525, Article, 高雄
發表於 : 週二 5月 13, 2008 2:12 pmHappy English Club 電子報 本文由EVP Team編審
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Time：高雄第15次例會，2008年5月25日（週日）下午16:00~18:00
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
Time:
16:00 ~16:45(Free Talks)
16:45~18:00 (Topic Discussion)
Host:Cheng-hong Lo
Assistant Host:Benjamin Yeh
Topic: A Second Chance
Suicide Survivor Share Life Lesson with Fellow Teens
Source: CNN Interactive English
CNN ANCHOR
A chance of pace now. We’re going to talk about a very unsettling topic. That’s suicide. It’s one of the leading cause 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.
Allen Chernoff has the story.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
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 seems 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.
JORDAN BURNHAM, SUICIDE SURVIVOR
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, than I get pretty down on myself.
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.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
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.
JEFFREY STAUB, PSYCHIATRIST
Depression can be fetal even when we try and put all of the pieces together, with a psychiatrist, a therapist.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
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 realize now anyone who’s depressed needs to talk it out.
JORDAN BURNHAM, SUICIDE SURVIVOR
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.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
A lesson Jordan and his parents hope will prevent other teens from attempting suicide.
Vocabulary:
Questions:
1.How do you release your pressure?
2.If one of your friends gets depression, what would you do?
3.Figure out the reason why depression is the devastating disease among modern people?
例會須知
參與例會，請自行列印當週的討論文章並帶至現場，圖示如下：
請將社團網站，加入我的最愛
http://www.happyforum.org/
台北，每週六 (2005年6月起)
Taipei, every Saturday
from June, 2005
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
高雄，每週日 (2007年4月起)
Kaohsiung, every Sunday,
from April, 2007
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
網站 http://www.happyforum.org/ 歡迎超連結並轉寄網址
論壇 http://www.happyforum.org/happy/ 歡迎至論壇討論
Time：高雄第15次例會，2008年5月25日（週日）下午16:00~18:00
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
Time:
16:00 ~16:45(Free Talks)
16:45~18:00 (Topic Discussion)
Host:Cheng-hong Lo
Assistant Host:Benjamin Yeh
Topic: A Second Chance
Suicide Survivor Share Life Lesson with Fellow Teens
Source: CNN Interactive English
CNN ANCHOR
A chance of pace now. We’re going to talk about a very unsettling topic. That’s suicide. It’s one of the leading cause 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.
Allen Chernoff has the story.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
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 seems 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.
JORDAN BURNHAM, SUICIDE SURVIVOR
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, than I get pretty down on myself.
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.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
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.
JEFFREY STAUB, PSYCHIATRIST
Depression can be fetal even when we try and put all of the pieces together, with a psychiatrist, a therapist.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
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 realize now anyone who’s depressed needs to talk it out.
JORDAN BURNHAM, SUICIDE SURVIVOR
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.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT
A lesson Jordan and his parents hope will prevent other teens from attempting suicide.
Vocabulary:
Questions:
1.How do you release your pressure?
2.If one of your friends gets depression, what would you do?
3.Figure out the reason why depression is the devastating disease among modern people?
例會須知 參與例會，請自行列印當週的討論文章並帶至現場，圖示如下：
請將社團網站，加入我的最愛 http://www.happyforum.org/
台北，每週六 (2005年6月起)
Taipei, every Saturday
from June, 2005
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
高雄，每週日 (2007年4月起)
Kaohsiung, every Sunday,
from April, 2007
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15