Why is house miserable

House sees a therapist who is his mental equal! Evil administrator Vogler! Annoying detective Tritter! Best character ever Cut-Throat Bitch! House maybe sort of tries to kill Cuddy and goes to jail! Cameron leaves! Kutner dies! Cuddy leaves! Patients die! Chase kisses a child! Thirteen quits! Foreman quits! Chase quits a few times! Everyone almost dies! Everyone almost dies again! Everyone really almost dies this time! Despite this 'stalemate' between them, House still antagonizes her and fights with her to spend more time with Wilson.

Later in the season, House awakens from a bus crash with a serious head injury and a nagging feeling that someone is going to die. He believes that he must have witnessed a symptom of a fellow bus passenger of some kind that is leading him to have this feeling. He eventually remembers that Amber was on the bus with him and that the memory his brain was trying to retrieve was Amber taking flu pills, amantadine , while on the bus with him.

The amantadine binds with the proteins in blood, and when her organs are damaged in the bus crash, the amantadine is unable to be filtered out causing multi-system organ failure from amantadine poisoning. Amber later dies in Wilson's arms when he wakes her up from a coma to say goodbye to her before turning off the life support machines.

House's fragmented memories reveal that Amber had gone to lend a ride to a drunken House at a bar on behalf of, but unbeknownst to, Wilson, who was at work at the time. House fatefully chose to ride the bus instead of accept her favor.

Amber followed him onto the bus in order to give him his cane, which he had forgotton and left behind. The House-Wilson relationship looked as though it may break up anyway as the grieving Wilson questions the validity of House's friendship. However, when John House dies, Wilson promises House's mother that he will make sure House attends the funeral. As the season progresses, more tragedy stikes when Kutner unexpectedly commits suicide.

House's mental state quickly begins to deteriorate into hallucinations of Amber and delusions of a romantic relationship with Cuddy. House agrees to be voluntarily admitted to Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. With his medical license on the line, House is desperate to get Darryl Nolan , his psychiatrist, to approve his return to practice.

However, Dr. Nolan is just as desperate to get House to deal with his mental health issues. Eventually, House starts to trust Dr. Nolan and starts to improve enough to be released. After initially thinking of leaving diagnostic medicine to relieve his stress, House finds that medical mysteries are the only good way to deal with his pain and he starts trying to get his job back from Foreman, who has replaced him in the meantime.

After getting his position back, he manages to convince Chase to stay on his team full-time and manages to hook back Taub and Hadley Thirteen as well. However, once Chase admits to Cameron his complicity in the death of a mass-murdering African dictator, she won't be wooed back and leaves House, her husband Chase, and PPTH. Meanwhile, Remy Hadley decides to take a leave of absence for a trip to Thailand. After admitting his relationship with Cuddy to his team, they worry if the couple can keep their work and personal lives separate.

In one case, after a newborn stops breathing, the case ends in the baby living but the mother dying because she refused a critical operation for her chilld. Masters, a third-year med student who is something of a child prodigy, graduating high school at fifteen and being about three years younger than any of her peers. When a patient comes in displaying smallpox symptoms, House risks his life to save the patient, but fails to save the dad who suffers from the same disease, but saves his original patient.

As Cuddy and House's relationship advances, Cuddy's mother is in town, and he, Cuddy, her mother Arlene and Wilson eat dinner, during which House drugs Wilson and Arlene. House also mentions that hius relationship with Cuddy was making him a worse doctor, but he would always choose Cuddy over medicine. Later, when Cuddy is admitted to the hospital with life-threatening symptoms, House instead spends his time elsewhere, which leads to their breakup.

House also begins taking Vicodin once more. Later, House discovers Thirteen has been in prison for the last six months and pokes into what she was in for, which is revealed to be bogus drug prescriptions.

She also euthanized her brother who was dying of Huntington's the same disease she has , but since she wore gloves, authorities could not prove she was the one who pushed the plunger.

House, meanwhile, has taken up an interest in a new drug which has shown to regrow muscle in mice, and consistently goes to the lab to steal the drug. However, when he learns the drug causes fatal tumors, he excises them himself, but Cuddy finds him and takes him to the hospital.

Also, Taub learns that he has kids. When an artist comes in as a patient faking symptoms aiming to make the diagnostic department her magnum opus, House discovers an underlying disease, and is convinced by her to change, but is rooted in old habits. He deals with his bitterness by driving into Cuddy's living room, sarcastically handing back a brush he stole, then spends three months overseas.

In , after a year since House crashed his car into Cuddy's home, he serves his time behind bars at the East New Jersey Correctional Facility under the close watch of the prison warden. However, he seems to have been sentenced unnecessarily hard for a first offense. It is also stated that he asked for this severe sentencing.

House states he is going to research dark matter, citing galactic rotation and detection, if he leaves medicine. He returns to medicine during the duration of Season 8, but eventually leaves medicine after "faking his own death" during the finale of Season 8 and riding off with James Wilson, so Wilson had someone to share his final few months with, Wilson having been diagnosed with Thymoma cancer of the thymus.

House's willingness to take risks and experiment with his patients extends to his own health. Beyond his use of Vicodin, he has frequently used himself as a guinea pig for drugs and medical tests.

Some of these tests are aimed at curing his leg pain, while others are to help his patients or satisfy his own curiosity. This disregard for his own well-being horrifies Wilson and Cuddy, who see it as an expression of his self-destructive impulses. House isn't the only one who does experiments on himself. In the episode "No Reason", House hallucinates that Cuddy gives him ketamine to reboot his nerve connections. Near the end of the episode, House comes to, and tells Cameron to tell Cuddy to give him ketamine.

Another example is in the episode "Resignation" when Wilson slips House anti-depression medication. House responds by putting amphetamines in Wilson's coffee. Equipped with a dry and acerbic sense of humor, House is enigmatic and conceals many facets of his personality with a veneer of sarcasm. He appears and sometimes himself claims to be narcissistic although he also shows many signs of self-contempt which would be impossible for an actual narcissist and appears to have a disdain for most people, leading some to label him "a misanthrope.

House is an atheist and it is implied that he is nihilistic. These traits make him something of a byronic hero. Despite his cynicism, he does seem to care about his colleagues to a certain extent and while considering them "idiots" is able to sometimes put aside his pride and apologize when he has offended them in a particularly sardonic fashion.

House uses his flippancy to conceal his affection toward his colleagues, and denies it to the extent that he himself sometimes forgets it. House is a total maverick and has stated that he frequents prostitutes. In one episode, his best friend Dr. Wilson states that House could have Asperger's Syndrome, but later tells House that he only wishes he had Asperger's so he could get away with more in life.

Wilson has also told House that his obsession with solving cases has nothing to do with saving lives but that while "some doctors have a Messianic complex, House has a Rubik's complex", that is to say, he's more concerned with figuring out what is wrong with his patients than he is with saving their lives. The latter he does simply because it's his job. This is shown when he sometimes tries to diagnose patients after they're dead, such as in the episode "97 Seconds".

However, there have been more than one occasion in which he put at risk his career, freedom and sometimes even his life to save a patient, leaving open how much he doesn't care about his patients' lives.

Occasionally, House can display the same sort of hypocrisy he decries in others, such as his derision for Cuddy when she had the naming ceremony for her daughter. A particularly egregious example would be his acquisition of a handgun after being shot by Moriarty , while stating to Masters that the Second Amendment is the part of the Constitution which says that people have the right to be stupid.

He also apparently has inherited John House 's service automatic and Mameluke sword. Although House has had a number of co-workers, employers, lovers, and acquaintances during his life, it appears that he has only had seven real relationships during his life.

This is primarily because House's personality is most likely a deliberate attempt to alienate those who want to get to know him better. The seven people who have been able to overcome his defensiveness have found a person worth salvaging, or even cherishing.

See also Hilson Wilson is House's best and only friend. Like just about everyone else, Wilson admires House for his considerable medical skills. However, he probably cares more for House as a human being. Wilson has noted that this has led to a co-dependent relationship, with Wilson acting as an enabler. For example, Wilson has kept House well-supplied with Vicodin and often makes excuses for his behavior to get House out of trouble.

For those who know both of them, they realize that Wilson will drop everything when House needs him. When Stacy House's ex-girlfriend eventually left House, it was Wilson who kept him going. As a result, Wilson is very protective of House. However, Wilson is no pushover; he often challenges House over his behavior and is not above tricking him to show House that although he might be right about almost everything, that skill doesn't apply to his own behavior.

In one episode, House pretends to be gay to get the attention of a neighbor and Wilson even proposes to House. See also - Housy House's ex-girlfriend and possibly the only woman House has ever shown outward emotion for. Although their relationship broke up over House's anger about his disability, it's clear that they are physically, emotionally, and intellectually attracted to each other.

Unlike most people, Stacy can see right through House's defensiveness and can often see through his attempts to manipulate her. Most of House's fear of relationships can probably be tracked back to the pain he felt when Stacy walked out of his life.

House's father was a strict disciplinarian, but although his punishments were severe, they were never arbitrary or fueled by anger. As a Marine, John probably felt his son would respond well to the same sort of discipline that made him the man he is. Instead, House became the antithesis of his father. Where John is compulsively neat, House dresses like a slob.

The father is punctual while the son is constantly late. Where John is straightforward, his son is manipulative. However, although House clearly wants nothing more to do with his father, it is just as clear that his father wants to have a relationship with his son and share the important things in his life.

From the way House treats women, one might expect that his relationship with his mother was troubled. However, House's mother loves him unconditionally, and the reverse is true as well. It was probably this unconditional love that led House to pursue his dreams. However, House realizes that he is a disappointment to his mother because the thing that his mother wants the most is for him to be happy, and he seems incapable of being anything other than miserable.

His wish to avoid his father has the unfortunate fallout of taking him away from his mother as well. It's one of the biggest criticisms to be levied against the show, and it is even a point that is brought up in-universe just because it has been mentioned so many times. For a medical doctor, House uses his cane on the wrong side of his body. Injured on his right, House continues to lean the cane on the same side as the bad leg.

However, to actually ease the pressure from that side, the cane should be on the left. This goes unmentioned for several seasons until it is brought to House's attention - and yet, he still chooses to keep the cane on the wrong side.

If he cares so much about alleviating his pain, why would he continue to make things worse for himself? To say that House lives his life in a moral grey area would be the understatement of the century. So, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to mention that House also frequently breaks into the homes of his patients in order to gather evidence and clues - and makes his team do so too.

The real question is, how does he keep getting away with this? They're never caught and House never gets anything more than a slap on the wrist or a stern eyebrow-raise when he commands this. Even if it's ultimately for the greater good, it seems ridiculous that he can't simply ask for entrance from the people he's treating.

For a show based on mysteries and finding clues, most of the cases that we are presented with get wrapped up by the end of a single episode. The team of fellows discovers what rare disease the person had, House says something witty, Cuddy rolls her eyes, and everyone is happy.

But, there was one ongoing mystery in the show that never got resolved - the case of House's paternity. We are presented with two candidates for House's father. First, John House, the man whom Greg's mother is actually married to and who raised him.

However, for most of his life, House suspects that this man is not his father, and is ultimately proven correct. Unfortunately, his next candidate also proves not to be his true father - and this thread is left unresolved by the end of the show.

While House is a medical doctor, he is also a man in near constant pain from the muscle that was removed in his leg. To take some of the pressure off of this leg, he walks with a cane. That's what makes it so strange when you realize that the canes he uses over the course of the show are mostly not suitable to give him the support he needs.

It makes some sense for House's character to care about style, even when it comes to his canes, but as a man who lives in pain and often goes to incredibly extreme lengths to relieve his pain, why wouldn't he bite the bullet and get a medical-grade cane that's more comfortable to use?

Throughout the show, House's only real friend is the loyal James Wilson. Whenever House needs help or is spiraling out of control, Wilson is there to lend a hand or bring him back from the pits of his own mind. House, in turn, has been there for him at times, particularly towards the end of the show - but these times are a lot rarer, and it is more often House leaning on Wilson for support.

Considering how often House has lied to, manipulated, and even harmed poor Wilson, how is it that House has managed to retain his best friend for all these years?

Perhaps some friendships just transcend all logic and sense of personal safety. The main conceit of the character of House is that he is a genius misanthrope who battles with physical pain on a daily basis, as well as the emotional scarring of the event that caused it. As seasons progress, House often finds more and more drastic ways to try and relieve his pain - some of which work; at least, as temporary measures. The problem is that, whenever House's pain is gone, his genius is diminished; this is not just down to the medicine he takes, as he has the same effect over different kinds of medication.

He was portrayed as being a genius before the pain, so why is he suddenly a worse doctor when his pain goes away? During his childhood, he was uprooted and moved around through many different countries, as his father was serving in active military duty - countries that included Egypt, the Philippines, and Japan. One country that has not been mentioned, however, was England. House has never explicitly stepped foot there in his life.

Yet, sometimes we hear the odd British phrase peppered into House's dialogue in place of a more obvious Western saying. For example, in the episode "No Reason", he uses the English word 'frock' instead of saying 'dress'. In real life, this is because House's portrayer, Hugh Laurie, is British - but there is no in-universe reason given. When House is suddenly attacked by a mysterious man who is named in the credits as 'Jack Moriarty', continuing on the Sherlock Holmes theme , it sends everyone into a state of shock; though House is obviously not the most likable person, for someone to storm into the hospital and harm him is very unsettling.

In the aftermath, House goes out and purchases a gun.