My parents did the same thing to me. I've had depression my entire life and it first hit hard in 4th grade. A lot of shitty things happened to me in a short period of time and my parents were very avoidant when it came to actually dealing with problems. Anytime I tried to talk to either of them about something difficult I was either 'creating more problems' or they were just emotionally unavailable and wouldn't listen.

So basically I just stopped talking to people, because nobody could help me. After awhile of this, I stopped getting out of bed and missed a few days of school in a row. That weekend my parents told me that they were taking me on a fun vacation that weekend with my sister to cheer me up. Trips to the beach, the aquarium, etc all planned for.

The first place we went was to a hospital and I didn't know why - I soon learned that I was being left there (a mental hospital) while my family went and had their fun weekend. I flipped shit, and ended up being left there for almost a month.

I'm sure their hearts were in the right place to find me some help, but tricking me and abandoning me just made it worse. None of the 'help' I received while I was in there could actually get through to me because of the way I was left there. I'm still fucked up because of it, and really, all I needed was someone in my family or community to listen to me for once..... instead they scarred me for life.

I still never got that vacation, and anytime I travel somewhere for a 'weekend' I get severe anxiety. I have a hard time trusting mental health professionals as well.

tl;dr My parents told me we were going on vacation and locked me in a mental hospital