** Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions about mental health challenges, including references to suicide. These topics may be distressing for some listeners. Please take care of yourself and feel free to skip this episode if you need to. If you or someone you know is struggling, consider reaching out to a mental health professional or local support hotline for help **

Mike’s journey into looked steady from a distance, but privately he was carrying grief, pressure and moments that changed him. Losing another close friend. Trying to hold himself together. Slowly drifting into isolation without anyone realising how far it had gone.

This episode opens up the parts people never saw:
• the weight changes and bulimia he hid
• the distance that grew between him and everyone else
• the nights he went missing
• the small signs that something was slipping
• the good days that kept getting shorter

There were still flashes of who he really was. The Mike who spoke openly about mental health on local TV. The Mike who tried to pull himself back when he felt stronger. The Mike who kept going even as the difficult episodes became more frequent.

This is the truth of who he was. Honest. Human. Trying his best in ways he rarely showed.

Everything here leads directly to the moment everything changed in Episode 3.

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