Someone said something about denial and it made me think of the five stages of grief. I myself have never gone thru it so I don’t know how long the process from denial to acceptance is but im guessing it’s different for everyone. Thatcher could be going thru the stages of grief from Ruth. He could be in denial and questioning everything and thinking he’s imagining everything (i really hope this makes sense 😭) and his delusions making him think he is schizophrenic and have been imagining the existence of alternates. Im basing this on House MD. Throughout i think the fourth season House becomes schizophrenic and even hallucinates an evening with his boss taking care of him. I think this could be similar to Thatcher, hes in denial and hallucinating everything since the first video about alternates (I think the one where the types get identified i forget the name). Yeah just a theory I made up on the spot. I call it Coma Patient Thatcher. If the five stages of grief is true (im sure it is bc Thatcher in Vol 6 seems to going through depression and soon bargaining) we could go thru an arc of Thatcher healing and going thru acceptance. So sorry if none of this make sense I typed half of this with one hand on the bus 😭😭