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The British teen drama Skins follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, southwest England, through the two years of sixth form.Its controversial story-lines have explored issues like dysfunctional families, mental illness (such as depression, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder), adolescent sexuality, gender, substance abuse, death, and bullying.
Kicking the door open, he sees Effy lying on the floor unconscious with her wrists slashed. She is taken to hospital to be treated. In the hospital, Effy tells Freddie to go away. Later, Freddie talks to Effy's mother Anthea. She says that Effy needs both of them now. Freddie replies that she is going to have to take care of Effy alone, and ...
Anthea and Freddie become worried about her counsellor's methods when Effy begins to reject her identity, her friends and her bad memories. She relapses when she and Cook walk past the scene of Tony's accident and returns to hospital. Effy is upset when Foster arrives and Freddie threatens him, telling him to stay away. Foster promises to back off.
The episode opens with short clips of several characters; Thomas Tomone is shown running, having taken up athletics, James Cook is shown having sex with Arcia, who is assumed to be his new girlfriend, Emily Fitch is seen with a girl named Mandy and Katie Fitch is seen visiting Effy at the hospital, to which Pandora Moon joins them and cheers Effy up with a song she wrote.
They take Effy to Norman's but after being left alone, Effy attempts suicide by slitting her wrists, only for Freddie to find her and take her to hospital. There, he meets Anthea (Morwenna Banks), Effy's mother, and tells her Effy needs her mother, not him. Cook, now escaped from custody, convinces Freddie not to give up on Effy.
As Freddie is talking to his grandad, Katie bursts into the room and scaredly tells him that Effy won't come out of the toilet. Freddie races there and is quick enough to save Effy who has just cut her wrists. Katie then seems to spend the majority of her time at the psychiatric hospital Effy is being kept in following her suicide attempt.
In "Effy", where Effy is receiving treatment in a psychiatric hospital, the incident where Tony was run over is shown to have profoundly damaged her. One of the Skins writers suggested that prior to Skins Fire , Effy had moved to London to live with Tony, and they lived together for a while before Tony left with Michelle, to which Effy ended up ...
Skins is a British teen drama created by father-and-son television writers Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for Company Pictures. The sixth series began airing on E4 on 23 January 2012 and ended on 26 March 2012.