Coronation street's portrayal of PND

[LanM]

What is the general view of the Streets storyline involving Clare's PND. Whilst highlighting a serious issue I feel that it may do more harm than good by showing such an extreme example of the illness ending up with her being sectioned and separated from the baby. Will this put people off asking for help or is it giving the illness a high profile?

I think it's quite an unsympathtic portrayal of a mother suffering from pnd

I think it is doing both to be honest. It's nice to see that depression is being addressed in programmes such as this, but my concern is that it might put people off asking for help, especially if the message comes across that you could end up in hospital away from your child. On the other hand though, Claire's PND seems to be to the extreme that she is putting her baby in danger, so the seperation there is for the good of both of them.

Also, they are portraying it to such an extent that people either won't believe it can affect a person like that or that if they are depressed, their illness could progress to those stages. Does that make sense?

yes, it makes sense. Plus if you have PND you wont be thinking that logically they are focusing on the 1% who suffer from this type of depression. I suppose a story along the lines of Clare feels down/ bursts into tears/ does not look forward to things would not set the ratings on fire. Great actress tho. Did think of taking husband back to the hospital alomg the lines of this isnt the man I married, he's changed etc

My mums PND reached the stage of clares on corrie. she tried to kill my younger sibling, as she was so so low. she wasnt hospitalised, but was given councelling, anti depressents and we had to attened a support group/contact centre thing as a family, so my mum could get a break and so SS could keep an eye on her. we went there for quite a while. she knows now she was very ill at the time.

I am disappointed that they have not placed her in a mother and baby unit but perhaps that is to come.

i havent watched corrie for a while,and i wasnt aware of this storyline,but i thought it was eastenders that always showed the extreme of everything.i suppose they are trying to get accross that PND can be that bad,as most people will know nowadays that PND exists but will think of it more as a mum crying all the time and not having any energy etc.
if they handle it as well as they did the story of shelly/charlie then i would think it would be ok.