User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-1900300-20120605152922

Well maybe but that still conflicts with the fact that indoctrination has almost invariably been shown as permenant. Only Shiala has ever been cured due to very special circumstances and even then she was not cured, just brainwashed over the original brainwashing. It basically works in the way of brain damage. That was a strong part of why indoctrination is so scary. So why can Shepard just walk it off like it was nothing? Because he is a main character? It would take serious handwaving to get through that.