That we all go or went through “phases” when in reality depression is not phase, suicidal thoughts and or actions is not a phase. Meanwhile it was causing me to push further away from them because I was scared to tell the how I felt, like they were going to say that it was my fault” (Sanchez). When interviewing this teenager I realized that children and teens are experiencing these feelings of guilt and remorse and are to scared to open up to someone that they trust feeling that they are going to get blamed even more than they are already blame themselves. Sanchez chose to use the word phase because when most teens speak to a parent about their feelings of depression it’s usually always just a phase and that is not the parents fault. It’s the way that the stigma has built up after generations and generations of ignoring mental illnesses and how they are just seen as a phase and like they are not meant to be taken seriously.
i feel this is also important because ive had people in my life tell me i was just going through a phase, ive had falling outs with people because they felt i needed to just get over it and move on but its not something you can just get up one day and say yea im over my depression. depression doesnt go away, its always there you just learn how to deal with it more effectively and thats what some people need to realize, depression is not a phase