Yeah I wouldn't trust them much either - although they likely just had as little mental health awareness as you did as a kid. Which really, really, sucks that so many people are unaware of these illnesses so they create MORE problems instead of helping the people they care about! Society is ridiculous.

As I don't know your parents, I don't know if they would react to your breakdown as demonstrating how much it hurt you, or if they would view it as you not being able to handle hard situations. Either way, I think it would probably confirm in their heads that they're making the right decision. My parents would definitely view it as not being able to handle hard situations, which is why I defaulted on that route.