If ABC News knows; everyone knows. We Utahns are one bummed out bunch.

I particularly love ABC's dramatic lead-in: "The still waters of the Great Salt Lake run deep -- and dark." Correct me if I'm wrong, but the GSL averages 20 feet deep.

But I don't want to interrupt ABC News when it's on a roll...

The postcard image of Utah is a state of gleaming cities, majestic mountains and persistently smiling people. But new research shows a very different picture of the state, a snapshot of suicide and widespread depression.

Two recent studies ranked Utah the most depressed state in the country and having the highest use of anti-depressants, respectively. "Wendy" tells ABC it's a cultural thing, "People think it's a sign of weakness. It means you're not capable of being a good mother or wife or teacher."

Says ABC: "Wendy's secret is Utah's secret." (Who wrote this crap, Horatio on "CSI Miami?")

Dr. Curtis Canning, a Logan psychiatrist, explains:

"In Mormon culture females are supposed accept a calling. They are to be constantly smiling over their family of five. They are supposed to take supper across the street to an ill neighbor and then put up with their husband when he comes home from work and smile about it the whole time. There is this sense that Mrs. Jones down street is doing the same thing, and there is this undercurrent of competition. To be a good mother and wife, women have to put on this mask of perfection. They can't show their tears, depression or agony. Obedience, conformity and maintaining a sense of harmony" are unspoken but widely recognized behaviors, which all contribute to what he calls "the Mother of Zion syndrome."