Photo by MART PRODUCTION: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-black-leather-jacket-sitting-on-brown-wooden-floor-7277896/ "The phobia indoctrination makes it difficult to avoid the stabbing thought, even many years after leaving, that one has made a terrible mistake, thinking 'what if they're right?' - Marlene Winell, Ph.D. As a young adult in the early stages of unlearning or deconstructing, (read more here) I struggled with depression.