mike wheeler having mental problems
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“I… I don’t…”
“You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.” Nancy reassured, but Mike shook his head. He was too far gone to pull back.
“I don’t think I feel the way I’m supposed to towards boys,” Mike whispered, his hands quivering by his side. It took him a moment to build up the courage to finish his sentence. “I think about boys the way I’m supposed to think about girls.”
Mike confronts the feelings in his head, leading to an unexpected conversation with his sister and much needed conversation with Will.
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- Part 1 of mike wheeler having mental problems
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“It’s cold out here.” Will mentioned casually, crossing the distance, and sitting down on the roof next to Mike, “I just wanted to ask about—”
“Do you ever think about dying?”
After the events that happened at the MAC-Z, Mike can’t help but feel a little less than adequate. When the unspoken feelings that he’s held since the day it all started finally arise, he ends up working through them with the help of a friend.
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- Part 2 of mike wheeler having mental problems
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like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky by dizzy_edge
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Hopper could hear Mike opening his mouth, the sound of his breathing growing more labored, before he finally broke the deafening silence.
“I want to kill myself.”
After Hopper has a talk with a frantic Mrs. Wheeler, he spends his morning running around town looking for her missing kid. He expects Mike to be over at a friends house, or getting into trouble. He doesn't expect to find him at the edge of a cliff.
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- Part 2 of hopper and his hoard of children
- Part 3 of mike wheeler having mental problems
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i'll be dazed and confused (all my life) by dizzy_edge
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Feb 2026
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His eyes felt wet, and he sniffled, trying to keep himself from crying into the boy's top. His throat felt painfully dry, and the cold air passing through his throat didn’t help. The warmth of Will did, though, and Mike held onto him a little tighter.
“Mike, what’s—”
“I’m sorry,” he gasped, squeezing his eyes shut. “I did it again, I’m sorry.”
After El's sacrifice, everyone struggles to cope. Mike turns to less than healthy methods, and when he's caught, he gets the help he needs from those around him.
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- Part 4 of mike wheeler having mental problems
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how? heart of a dragon (for my prayer has always been love) by dizzy_edge
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Mar 2026
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“I— I wasn’t going to do anything. I was just… I was—”
“Please don’t do this with me,” Dustin cut in, swallowing thickly. Mike tried to ignore the pain in the other boy’s voice, but that didn’t stop a voice of his own deep down telling him that he’d fucked everythig up again.
“Dustin—”
“Don’t make me go through this again,” he said, quieter. The firmness in his voice had vanished, replaced by desperation and vulnerability. Dustin rarely spoke like that, usually opting for a more assertive voice, but that assertiveness had shifted into something softer. Mike could feel tears brimming in his eyes, because at least real dead people had the grace of not being able to hear someone pleading for their life. Mike, who only felt like he was dead and rotting, still had to be torn apart by caring words, and that was torturous.
A few months after the destruction of the Upside Down, Mike still hasn’t moved on from everything. On the daily, he finds it harder to climb out of bed. When he finds himself imagining death at Sattler’s Quarry, he doesn’t expect Dustin to find him, in the same spots they were in almost five years before.
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- Part 5 of mike wheeler having mental problems