Euphoria’s Cassie: Portraying women with borderline personality disorder traits

from A Real Affliction: BPD, Culture, and Stigma · host Cynthia Gralla

What responsibility does a writer/director have when presenting a female character who appears to have BPD traits? Following the series finale of Euphoria, Sam Levinson’s controversial television drama, I discuss the dramatic shift in his writing for Cassie, played by Sydney Sweeney, in the third and final season.

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