A tragic news anchor suicide story from Australia:

This news anchor suicide has the Australian media in mourning.
Charmaine Dragun committed suicide by jumping from The Gap in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs around 4:00pm on Friday 2 November 2007.
Charmaine Dragun was undergoing treatment for depression and had
recently changed medication. This is being looked at as part of the
news anchor suicide investigation.

Ah, that change in medication might have played its part in the story.

Channel 10 newsreader Charmaine Dragun was successful, intelligent, talented and popular.

The
29-year-old seemed to have it all – a loving family, a long-term
relationship and a stellar career as a prime-time news anchor.

Yet
on Friday the "beautiful and bubbly" Dragun jumped to her death at The
Gap – a notorious suicide spot in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.

Family, friends and colleagues are stunned, struggling to understand what could have prompted such a tragic decision.

Dragun
took her life just hours before she was due to read the 5pm Perth news
bulletin from the network’s Sydney studios alongside co-anchor Tim
Webster.

A
shocked Webster said: "She was going great, we thought", while fellow
Ten newsreader Deborah Knight described Dragun’s death as "completely
unexpected".

"No
one had any idea how sad she must have been," she said at the weekend.
"People are now wondering if we should have taken more interest in what
was going on in her life."

The
fact that suicide often comes out of the blue is a reminder that
profound private suffering can lurk behind even the brightest
personality.

Unlike many physical illnesses, depression is often easy to conceal.

Quite why those who seem to have everything going for them commit suicide is something that those who have never suffered from depression won’t understand.