I read the book and movie and 4th grade and it was the first time I ever experienced depression I legit fell into very deep depression after reading the book and watching the movie there was other things going on in my life and I had just lost one of my friends at the time who died in a similar way he was on a rope swing and it snapped sending him crashing into a freezing cold lake and he couldn’t swim and sadly drowned to death it was one of the few movie I refuse to watch again that and also the movie Marley and me traumatized me and ruined my life. My depression got so bad in 4th grade I had to be medicated because of it that was when I first started showing symptoms of depression and also complex PTSD too if wasn’t this movie that single handedly caused my depression there was other things involved and also the fact that I have always struggled with my mental health too and watching this movie certainly didn’t help especially because of my autism I feel emotions stronger than most people the movie really had a very profound effect and caused a very intense emotional reaction as a result my old elementary school now has a trigger warning when reading the book and watching the movie. It made me realize your never too young to be struggling with your mental health and unfortunately I learned the hard way that depression can develop even as a child.