Peartree
Its a story its not real. If this was truly happening to someone they would have my full sympathy but its a load of people sitting in a room making up stuff for a character who dosent exist, but if you want to think its real then be as it may.
It may not be real but the TA storyline which ran for years about Rob’s coercive control over Helen raised massive public awareness of violence against women, even amongst politicians, and probably hastened the change of law with regard to domestic violence.
Just this morning I heard a woman on R4 say that she only began to understand that her long suffered MH condition was actually bi polar when she followed a storyline on a TV soap. This spurred her to seek a proper diagnosis and treatment.
Many of these “made up” stories actually perform a very useful function in society. DAR is so right.