I don’t buy that excuse, mental health treatment doesn’t advance in a world of dramatic medical technological advances? They can repair brain matter with an external device and recombine a person, atom by atom in transport but talk therapy is the best therapy for mental health… nah, that’s ridiculous.

And Geordie traded pain for augmented sight, arguably better vision than normal. He chose the tradeoff, not because he just didn’t want to see and accepted his blindness.