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mickeym4ndy · 15 days

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I always think a lot of Mickey’s trauma that he buried pretty deep will hit him really really hard post canon.

He’s been in survival mode his whole life so he suppressed a lot of what happened to him just to get through life. He didn’t have the option of dealing with it.

Post canon, things will likely finally slow down for him - less money worries because they have their business, no threat of Terry coming after him, not doing many illegal things so less constant fear of getting caught for something and going back to jail.

So he’ll finally be able to relax a bit and, in his mind, start living and enjoying things in life.

But I think once life slows down, all the trauma from his childhood all the way to adulthood will hit him like a truck. Even things he hasn’t thought about in years will really start affecting him.

And I think he’d get frustrated with himself because he wouldn’t be able to understand why he’s doing so much worse when things are finally good.

But that’s actually why he’s doing so much worse. Because he doesn’t need to constantly prepared for something going wrong, so there’s space for other things in his mind, so everything he’s buried would come right to the surface.

I feel like he’d go through a pretty hard time before he can start to get better because he’ll have to face things he’s suppressed head on, because he won’t be able to bury them any more.

#I see it manifesting in intense flashbacks and panic attacks and nightmares #among other things #I think it would get to the point where he’d have no choice but to get help #he’d probably go kicking and screaming but he’d need to do it #I’m not a psychiatrist but always thought he’d have PTSD #i also think this is why so many people don’t understand his character in the later seasons because they expect him to be this #perfectly healed communicative adult #but in reality he’s still very traumatized and in survival mode and therefore hasn’t truly dealt with anything #and that has a massive impact on his actions even though he doesn’t realize it #mickey milkovich #gallavich #shameless #shameless us #Mickey Milkovich meta #similarly I think when Ian realises he was groomed by Kash and ned he’ll have to deal w all that and it’ll be hard #I travelled for 10 hours today and this was all I wrote lol

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