In this talk, I consider the labor of emotions (Hoschchild 1983) accomplished by children and myself during the one-year ethnography I conducted in a mental health facility and at patients’ houses in Morocco. As a non-white woman who experienced similar troubles as some of my female interviewees, I describe their use of the chart of activities, a therapeutic tool developed to control depressive symptoms, while analyzing my own emotions in this particular disposal.      I suggest that that my research contributes to “decolonize children and adolescent mental health studies”, questioning the influence of “EuroAmerican models of child development”  (Béhague & Lézé 2015). To do so, I have developed a double approach: firstly, I documented the everyday life of non-WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic) young psychiatric patients (Henrich and Heine 2010); secondly, I chose an ethnographic perspective inspired by psychoanalysis (Lorimer 2010). This posture, in which emotions are central, has encouraged me, amongst other things, to be attentive to all forms of non-verbal expression, including my own, and to disclose the ordinary activities co-produced by the children and myself. Detailing our everyday labor to face depression, this analysis, done alongside a post-colonial angle, offers another understanding of the experience of certain speechless children diagnosed with a psychiatric trouble.   To conclude, I favor a posture that acknowledges the fieldwork’s emotions as an epistemological asset, inviting anthropologists to be emotionally engaged to operate alternative narrative and reflexive turns and to foster a renewal in mental health studies.