Just to be clear, on this thread i don't want any 'Get BK off' or anything like that, this is solely for the storyline, you can say he isn't doing a good job at the storyline but i want no he is awful and should die etc.

I called this storyline controversial because people are saying that it isn't true to real life. Here are my views on it:

1) You do have to realise that it is a soap and since this is HOLLYOAKS, probably one of the most unbelievable soaps ever.
2) I think that the whole aspect was very thought out, using Hilton's constant hospital care to trigger something in Cindy's brain to make her go a bit loopy and i can see that they did do a bit of research behind it with the illusions etc. I didn't know that was a symptom (which also got me thinking about Stacey's bipolar and how she could see her aborted daughter but that's a different story)
3) I think they haven't written it or planned it out as well as i hoped, it all seemed to escalate quite quickly and i hoped it would have been more of a slow burner but i guess not.
4) Finally, I have to congratulate Stephanie Waring and Amanda Clapham with their acting abilities throughout this storyline as with the material that they got (good or bad) they truly acted their socks off (especially Stephanie, she was always one of my favourites anyway so I'm a bit biased but oh well i think she is brilliant in this storyline).

Sorry for the long (and seemed to be quite formal) post but that is what i think, i am enjoying this storyline but there could be some improvements here and there

I also thought Andrew Moss' reappearance as Rhys Ashworth was a brilliant idea and that saga was played out very well with only showing Rhys' bad side, the side only Cindy knew really.

hope they do this storyline that showing that we bipolar suffers are not freaks

Hiya Sarah, you would not like the HO bi-polar storyline it doesn't represent people with mental illness well.

It doesn't really does it :L But i can see that they are TRYING to portray it, not well, but trying to portray it well. Like i said before, Stephanie and Amanda are doing a fantastic job in the storyline so it is worth watching just for them

I dont think it necessarily that her vision Rhys is bad because thats all she knew about him... I think its more that Rhys is the personification of all her negative thoughts, so whilst it seemingly appears that he is the "bad guy", its really just Cindy's own "demons".

Isn't that kind of a direct copy of H&A when Alf had a brain tumor and only he saw an "bad" version of his dead wife Alisa?

All cases of bi polar are different and some people do have visions. Infact when Stacey was suffering her first bi polar episode in EastEnders she kept seeing her daughter. The baby she aborted.

I think on the whole EastEnders have done a better job than Hollyoaks but EastEnders have been running this story for a full ten years now so will always have the upper hand but its great to see any soap raise awareness. The only worries I have with Hollyoaks is that everything feels like its award led rather than storyline led. These days its like every story is just an attempt to win something at the BSAs rather than telling an actual story.