I was in the truck driving home with my dad today. My sister (has no history of mental illness) who is incredibly emotional and overreacts about basically everything, started crying because apparently, me and my other sister had been so mean to her all day (I told her she should say please when she asked for things). My dad then decided to proudly announce that he had been doing "research". He then continued to say, "There's a study that shows that depression and panic attacks and mental illnesses and all of that all comes from video games and I'm about ready to take all of your electronics away from you." It just hit me so hard when he said that. For some background, I was diagnosed with depression and various forms of anxiety following me being emotionally tormented by a group of people who I thought were my friends plus some other bullying related issues. For a while I even considered suicide. What he said just made me feel so invalidated. I just want to yell at him for saying what he said. I just don't get it. I feel so incredibly hurt.