CASSIE AINSWORTH
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Hi everyone,
I hope you enjoyed my last post!
Today, I'm going to talk about "Cassie" from Skins.
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Her character is already deeply explored in the show, so I'd like to discuss her from a psychological point of view.
Cassie can be considered as a "crazy" person, but I'm here to show you that her personality is much more than that.
She's very sensitive and I think she tries to avoid deep attachments with people because she's really scared of getting hurt: that's why she usually presents herself as "weird". Her family background is quite unusual too, and that probably contributed to the developing of her eating disorder.
Her parents seem really nice and sweet because they call her by affectionate nicknames and talk to her gently; however, it's evident that they don't care about her at all. They just want her to take care of her little brother.
She probably needs attention from them and unconsciously tries to obtain it by losing a lot of weight, but her parents still don’t seem to care.
She finds comfort in Sid, a guy from her friend group who is deeply in love with Michelle; so, that's probably another bad trauma that has led her into considering suicide as the best option to stop her constant suffering. She doesn't understand her value or her beauty, but that's not her fault at all – human mind can be really cruel sometimes.
Cassie is a complex character, but she's one of the best written in my opinion, probably because I see myself in her!
