Have you ever wondered why our attention spans seem to be shrinking? Or whether there's a cure for

pathological lying? Or maybe you've wondered what's behind the teen mental health crisis? Well,

the good news is there is scientific research that tackles these subjects and many more. Join me,

Kim Mills, each week for the American Psychological Association's podcast,

Speaking of Psychology.

We'll explore the latest research to help you apply the science of psychology to your everyday life.

Speaking of Psychology is available wherever you get your podcasts or at www.spokenof Psychology.org.

This episode deals with mental illness, depression, and suicide.

Please listen with care.

Previously on the deep end.

And DBS is not going to give you happiness.

It's not going to just be a device that turns on happiness 24-7.

It's to get you out of the hole and be on solid ground.

So has the device made me happy?

The device has made me disease-free.

That's all that I needed it to do. It has not taken away the typical emotions in life that I'm going to have forever. And those are happiness, sadness, anger.

I'm going to have those, and I'm going to have to learn how to live with having those.

Music have those and I'm going to have to learn how to live with having those. On the last episode, we heard how John had to make room for new emotions once his depression

had lifted. On this episode, we're going to talk not so much about depression, but about shame, the shame and the judgment of having a mental disorder, and all too often the shame and the judgment of the treatment people seek.

We'll explore whether there's something different about changing our brains versus any other part of our bodies.

This is the Deep End. I'm Laura Sanders.

Like many who have struggled with a mental illness, Emily Hollenbeck has plenty of stories of people

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