User blog comment:AndrewBrauer/Re-Written Episode: Making the Case/@comment-31789809-20170718142925/@comment-32202721-20170718182002

I agree. The author smartly had Lincoln's pain continue long after he had atoned for his bad actions.

And it doesn't feel like a "torture porn" (for lack of a better term), because Lincoln's basically being victimized by himself - but not in a way that makes the reader blame him. His sisters do try to help him once they realize that something's wrong, but his depression-addled brain keeps manufacturing excuses to push them away ("you're already a burden," "you'll just make them sad," "you don't deserve to feel better," etc.). It's a genuinely tragic situation where nobody's really at fault.