That night, at a café,
Cassie is depicted as being eccentric and suffering from several mental disorders — most notably, anorexia nervosa — and multiple issues, including low self-esteem, suicidal ideation, and drug addiction, but is gentle-natured and friendly.
Cassie is revisited five years later in series 7 in a feature-length episode, Pure. It is revealed that Sid did indeed find her and that the pair spent several years travelling around America, although she does not mention him by name.
Traumatized by the death of her best friend, Cassie leaves the flat, and mysteriously ends up in New York City.
Sweeney's Cassie is never displaying the same level of emotion as those around her unless it's rage — uncontrollable outbursts of anger being another criteria of BPD. In every scene, she's either displaying a significantly higher level of emotion than others or she is fully shut down, dissociating.
In the story, Cassie forms an odd friendship with her stalker (Olly Alexander), and tries to support her younger brother Reuben as their father (Neil Morrissey) fails to cope with the death of their mother.
Also, Sid goes on a 'mission of love' to profess his love to Cassie in the final episode of the first series, and later in the second series where he searches for her in New York City. He shows Cassie's picture in Times Square, but no one recognizes her.
Sid is initially portrayed as a virgin who has a crush on his best friend Tony Stonem's girlfriend, Michelle Richardson, although he later realises that his true feelings are for Cassie Ainsworth.
When she's saying 'oh wow' she's she's actually very upset with whatevers happening. Its only when she's truely truely shattered does it become clear that she's angry or sad.
Cassie is portrayed as insecure and seeking male validation. Her peers constantly comment on how Cassie has never been single; this season is the first time she has gone without a boyfriend for a long period. This suggests that she is sex deprived, which could be a reason why she has many nude scenes.
The writers portrayed manic depression by having Effie (who, until season four, was arguably one of the most seductively cool, calm, and collected characters ever) completely unravel. After her parents separate, Effie enters a near-catatonic state of depression.
Of course, many teenage girls did relate to Cassie's character. It's easy to look back now and see Skins' portrayal of anorexia as caricatured and problematic, but back in 2007, it was quietly revolutionary. It was a time when eating disorders didn't often occupy primetime television.
For instance, Cassie wears baby blue and pink signifying how she has a naive innocence about her, while Kat changed from simple denim to a red leather dominatrix as she tries to break away from being the quiet, shy pushover.
At the end of episode sixth, while staring at a box of tampons, she comes to the realization that she is pregnant with McKay's child.
The night before she started ninth grade, Cassie's parents had an intense argument which led to their separation. Afterwards, Cassie was told by a classmate that Gus left Suze because she cheated on him; though initially angry, she came to realize that her parents were both flawed and better apart.
Furious with Tony after his numerous infidelities, Michelle ends their relationship and begins an affair with the son of Cassie's doctor. Desperate to get back with Michelle, Tony uses expli...
And Sid finds him dead in the morning. I completely forgot that Sid's dad dies. Completely forgot. I was legitimately shocked when Sid goes and finds him downstairs, unashed cigarette in hand.
Brooke is a British Megalonyx living in Geotopia who becomes Sid's love interest and new girlfriend. She appears in Ice Age: Collision Course.
In "Effy", Tony comes to terms with the destructive nature of his machinations when faced with a chase to find his sister, Effy Stonem and is given a terrible proposition: he must have sex with his unconscious sister if he wants her back from her captors.
Many viewers felt seen because finally a TV show was depicting someone's struggle with anorexia. Hannah Murray, who played Cassie, said in 2013: "It's easy to see her as a very issues-based character because she did suffer from an eating disorder.
For those of you who haven't been clued in, Cassie sleeps with the abusive ex-boyfriend (Nate Jacobs) of her best friend, Maddy Perez. The two continue this affair in secret, having begun it shortly after Maddie and Nate broke up. Cassie wakes up as early as 4:00 AM to get ready for school and impress Nate.
She begins to have psychotic episodes and delusional symptoms and Freddie realizes that Effy has developed psychotic depression. She attempts suicide but Freddie, foreseeing this, saves her and she is taken to hospital and later, institutionalized.
When she's going to tell her boyfriend, Chris, she discovers that he's been rushed to the hospital with a blood clot in his brain. In the season finale, she shares that she had an abortion.
Turns out it was Dot Carlson (Cheryl Hines), the CIA's Regional Manager who kept insisting that Cassie could talk to her, and who was trying to make Cassie doubt her handler Benjamin Berry (Mo McRae), was the mastermind behind all of this: she was the one who set off the car bomb (Will the mark had also tried to ...
Throughout the series we see her go through a lot of trauma where she gets used for sex by everyone around her, her boyfriend McKay going through prejudices for being with someone like her and eventually accidentally getting pregnant and getting an abortion.