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- The soap operas on television might seem like fun, guilty pleasure, but they could be detrimental to your mental health. These days, most TV producers target their shows at the younger generation. So you have to be careful about the TV programmes you watch.
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Nov 30, 2020 · Soaps and dramas featuring characters with depression, anxiety and panic attacks are helping people to realise for the first time that they may be experiencing mental health problems. The research, carried out during the nation’s second lockdown in November, shows that in the last 12 months.
Jan 12, 2023 · Soaps and dramas featuring characters with mental health problems like depression, anxiety, and panic attacks are helping people to realise for the first time they may be experiencing a mental health problem.
Jan 20, 2023 · It's no surprise that soaps are one of the most powerful ways to relay what living with a mental health problem is like. What other format allows us as viewers to follow...
- Minnie Wright
- Stacey and Jean’s Bipolar – EastEnders
- Zak’s Psychotic Depression – Emmerdale
- Aidan Connor’s Suicide – Coronation Street
- Lily’s Self Harm – Hollyoaks
- Carla’s Psychosis – Coronation Street
- Joe’s Schizophrenia – EastEnders
- Iain’s Depression – Casualty
- Cleo’s Eating Disorder – Hollyoaks
- Aaron’s Self Loathing – Emmerdale
- Mick’s Anxiety and PTSD – EastEnders
With two fantastic actresses in Lacey Turner and Gillian Wright, this ongoing story is one of EastEnders’ best ever. It has certainly portrayed the extremities of bipolar disorders, which can see high levels of mania and even euphoria and deep, dark lows of depression both of which can lead to behaviour of paranoia, suicidal tendencies and behaviou...
Showing a depression in an older male was a rare thing for soaps – especially for hardman Zak Dingle, who fell apart with a deep, psychotic depression. Emmerdale was praised rightly for its choice of character and condition and the portrayal of Zak as a lost soul and shadow of his former self. It took Zak a while to identify that was nothing was go...
One of Coronation Street’s most effective pieces of drama of all time saw a heartbreaking episode in which the body of Aidan Connor was found with a goodbye note. The power behind this story was the signs of Aidan’s despair were hard to spot and weren’t signposted heavily – showing that anyone can be fighting a battle we know nothing about. The was...
Tortured soul Lily battled with self harm for several years in Hollyoaks, with the situation exacerbating on many occasions. Like many, she was extremely secretive about what was happening to her and in the end, her dangerous addiction which she thought she had control over was the death of her. Along the way, many issues were explored including th...
Carla Connor has suffered more tragedies than even the most toughest soap fighters and there came a point where she reached a stage she could no longer control, with her years of PTSD and horrific losses and mistakes manifesting in serious spells of psychosis. Believing herself to be a killer and consumed by self loathing and hatred, Carla’s mental...
Back in 1996 and 1997, the illness of schizophrenia had been rarely explored in any form of media and was still something many were frightened of – perceiving sufferers to be dangerous and to be avoided. The story of Joe Wicks shed a whole knew light on this as it explored the life of a vulnerable young lad, done wrong in his upbringing by very wea...
A fan favourite of the show, Michael Stevenson was the perfect character to explore male depression with – as a paramedic he was on the front line, seeing horrific incidents, death and loss every day and when he felt to blame for a tragedy which resulted in fatalities, we saw a breakdown and a very raw descent into depression. Casualty weren’t mess...
Hollyoaks did its first foray into eating disorder exploration years ago with an anorexia storyline ending in a tragic death and this time, Cleo’s condition was bulimia, a deeply secretive illness which brings the sufferer shame and makes them addicted to bingeing and purging food. As someone with an abusive past and who has been let down by many p...
Aaron’s entire story arc has been dominated by his self hatred and lack of confidence, triggered initially by an abusive childhood at the hands of his father. When we first met Aaron, he was forever lashing out and the general consensus was he was a badly behaved teen who needed discipline. But what we eventually discovered is that Aaron was a youn...
A slow burning storyline initially focusing on panic attacks and stress, EastEnders captured how frightening these moments could be as Mick collapsed and was hospitalised. But Mick, determined to always be the strong one, would keep this a secret for a long time to come. His situation spiralled further when his childhood abuser suddenly came back i...
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Research shows that one in four viewers realised they were experiencing a mental health problem after seeing a storyline on television.
Apr 27, 2016 · News reports and soap and drama storylines about mental health are having a huge impact on audiences, new findings released by Mind show today. More than half (52%) of people who have seen a storyline involving a character with mental health problems say it helped to improve their understanding of mental health problems, while one in four (23% ...
Nov 30, 2020 · It’s been revealed that one in five fans of soaps and dramas have realised they have mental health problems after watching storylines featuring them. Shows with characters experiencing ...
