Missing the point

Craig didn't have any major problems. This was stressed several times in the movie in his conversations with Bobby, ignoring for a second that a major plot point in the movie was that Craig was in the institution by mistake (which even the title references, so, f-ck.) Yes, Craig is rich and privileged, and he has no reason to be depressed; the movie makes it evident that it realizes this. The reason it works is because we've all felt at one point the fear and anxiousness Craig feels, of growing up, not knowing how to be an adult. It's not a movie about a depressed teenager. It doesn't even show any depressed people. It's a movie about a teenager who is not sure how to transition into adulthood. Even his friends, Nia and Aaron, reference how they sometimes feel the same because, of course, everyone is confused at that age, and not sure how they're going to cope with the world as grown-ups. Craig still has a relatively small window of experience to compare the gravity of his problems with, and his trivial issues, mostly having to do with anticipation of the future, seem much more hectic and massive to him than they are. How so many of the posters on this board insist on myopically focusing back to Craig not having "real issues" (when this was what the statement of the movie was based around in the first place) is baffling to me.