Let me give you the worst bits [spoilers for the show beneath this]:

I’d prefer for Mike to be able to tell his own story and have refrained from sharing more than I thought would be appropriate. But because I know today’s update came as a surprise to many readers, I’ll clarify that Mike cannot walk. His upper body movement is fine.

An update on our colleague Mike Fahey: Mike is now home and acclimating to a future of having to use a wheelchair. He’s exploring options for a van he could ride in or even drive with hand controls. They’re expensive, so we’re inviting people to contribute to his family’s GoFundMe to help get him back on the road.

As a psychologist-to-be (I’m ABD in August), this just doesn’t make much sense to me. Plenty of disorders are defined behaviorally, like ODD—can you tell my work is mostly kids?—and that’s not inherently a problem. So there’s an ill-understood neurological and biological component to the current class of substance use…

As a psychologist I always hesitate to use the word addiction not related to a drug or alcohol. Substance aabuse shares many of the same impulse behaviors but lacks the changes to neuro chemistry that heroine or nicotine does.

Me, when I found out he died, knowing full well how much of disgusting human he was:

Chapters 5-8 remove it from "top 20 JRPG" contention.

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