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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 121031" data-attributes="member: 22">Possibly, but in the scene, Miss Ellie is the one who's trying to address the seriousness of Sue Ellen's condition, while Patricia casually dismisses it as "postpartum depression", something that's "not uncommon." In terms of the story, Patricia's diagnosis is irrelevant compared to Sue Ellen's triangle with JR and Cliff.I didn't suggest it was bad at all, just that the kind of treatment Sue Ellen had would be prohibitively expensive for most people.Who knows? Maybe someone did.It didn't feel like Dallas was "tackling a topic" with this storyline anymore than Hamlet was "tackling depression" by having Hamlet contemplate suicide and Ophelia drown herself. If any topic-tackling did occur, it was as a by-product of telling a rattling good story. Perhaps, in the end, that's the best way to tackle a topic -- you don't tackle it, you just create fascinating characters and let them do their thing.</blockquote>