I’m going to discuss one of the most intersting characters from the show regarding their psychological damage. in honor of the third season of Euphoria coming to HBO Max soon enough.

All the characters are flawed of course, but some damage is more intense than others.

Cassie Howard.

Cassie keeps her emotional damage super quiet until the most explosive moment ever at Lexi’s school play.

But you definitely see her unraveling throughout the series as her mental health deteriorates and she gets worse and worse.

Her emotional damage comes from being neglected by her father, watching her mother struggle with alcoholism, general abandonment wounds from her parents as a whole, the fact that she’s been sexualized since she was younger, and the fact that she goes through repeated relationship trauma.

Her relationship with McKay was also pretty toxic, even though it wasn’t as toxic as her relationship with Nate.

And that’s because McKay was constantly pushing her away, making her think she was the problem when he had other issues he was dealing with.

Cassie‘s total collapse of self-worth is tied to her desperate need for male validation. So when she isn’t being validated by men, she feels like she isn’t worth anything at all.

That emotional wound stems from her daddy issues. It’s pretty clear that the breakdown we see from her in season two isn’t something that happens suddenly or out of the blue.

It’s the result of years of untreated emotional erosion that caused her to become so explosive.

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