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Originally Posted by AcGold
I'm fairly certain I'm correct. The writers pretty much hit us over the head with it without explicitly saying it. There was a direct 1:1 correlation between slippin' Jimmy and Chuck's agoraphobia, you want them to literally come out and say it?
If Slippin' Jimmy disappears and Chuck's symptoms immediately go away I don't know how you can possibly make any other interpretation. That's not even correlation that's about as strong of a causation the writers could make it without staring directly into the camera and stating it as such. There was hinting at it earlier in the episode too, every single moment of Chuck's illness is indicative of Jimmy causing it.
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Except they don't simply go away. Chuck feels alleviated, but the illness is still there. Again, at best, it seems like Jimmy's reversion is merely aggravating Chuck's symptoms through stress over worrying about his brother.
One example in the show's timeline that disrupts your theory, brought up as recently as the last episode, shows that Jimmy had turned things around after his brother had bailed him out and gave him a job. He just passed the bar at the University of America Samoa (Go Landcrabs!), and almost all remnants of Slippin' Jimmy are virtually gone. Yet, somehow after this (as we see Chuck still at the head of the firm) Chuck manages to develop his illness.
Unless the plot snaps to a flashback of Jimmy reverting to his old ways before Chuck becomes ill we really have no reason to believe that Slippin' Jimmy's antics actually caused the onset of the illness.
That's my interpretation of what has happened on-screen thus far. You're free to hold your own interpretation, but the evidence I see doesn't lead me to that conclusion at all.