Depression

[Ashtoreth]

It certainly contributed to my own suicide attempt when I was 18;

You say that you had suicide thoughts which were somewhat contributed from being trivialized by people close to you. If that was so, then why are you still here now, and not dead? I'd take a guess, and assume that you just got over it at some point.

Teenagers are known to be mopers, and one in four people are known to suffer from a mental illness at some point in their lives. It's not worth the risk to even have a category labelled "just a phase" when mental illness and suicide is such a major problem.

I wouldn't attribute mental illnesses to being treated like shit. It's not like every other teenager is mentally ill.

With so many misunderstandings in this thread, it's getting hard to keep reading.