After taking the major step of acknowledging the severity of his depression and checking himself in to the emergency room, Craig suddenly has the big-picture revelation that he is about to enter a psychiatric hospital. His shock at this revelation hints at the role psychiatric hospitals play in popular culture—and how most people see them as a place for seriously disturbed people, not a place where the typical teenager should ever end up.
Craig’s revelation suggests that even in spite of his own severe depression, he still feels a bit of a stigma toward mental institutions and the people who…