I've got a few stories for you to start off your day. The first is of a young man who was suffering from depression and threw himself out of the ninth story of his apartment building. Amazingly, he survived, and now he and his parents are trying to educate people on the subject of teenagers and suicidality. It has a complementary video presentation. The package is a pretty good job done by Philadelphia's "paper of record," the Inquirer. Go here to check it out.

Next up is a heartbreaking tale of veteran Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and murder that was published in the New York Times. I won't say more about it, but it touches on the linkage between mental illness and potential violence, which is always overblown by the media. Maybe the only time it makes sense to discuss it so thoroughly, as in this story, is when someone has been to war and has been desensitized to killing. Go here, but bring tissues and a sense of outrage.

Finally, below is an article Susan S. thought we might be interested in.

Depressed surrogate mum tries for baby number eight