There's an interesting article in The Independent by Lucy Nichol who talks about Carla Connor's mental health breakdown storyline.
Lucy explains her role helping with this storyline. She says: "For the past six months I’ve been working closely with the team at Coronation Street on a storyline about psychosis. It’s part of the freelance work I do with the mental health charity Mind and its media advisory service. The service exists to promote responsible portrayals of mental health problems and the team works closely with a wide range of soap, drama, documentary and filmmakers.
The story is currently hitting the screens, and Corrie fans are seeing the usually headstrong character Carla break down following a death on her factory premises.
So far, so soap-like. But the programme is exploring the issue of psychosis in this story, and not in the usual, stereotyped kind of way.
Psychosis is still one of the most stigmatised mental health problems that exists. Movies tend to pigeon-hole it in the horror genre and people get it confused with the idea of psychopathy, mistakenly linking psychosis with violence. This is why it’s so important to portray these symptoms accurately."
You can read the full interview here.
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