Mental Disorders Demonstrated by Winnie The Pooh Characters

I had recently listened to an ItunesU lecture on mood disorders and the professor used Eeyore from Winnie The Pooh as an example of Depression. I was like Oh, yeah, that's true. I never really noticed.

I told my friend about it today and she gave me this link, an article explaining how each of the characters has some sort of mental disorder.

http://wassupdoc.wordpress.com/2011/...oh-characters/

and for those of you who use Tumblr:

http://www.dangerousminds.net/commen...d_his_friends/



I hadn't ever thought about that while watching it as a kid, but it all makes sense.

Anyone else know about this?

I don't know whether to chuckle or really think about this. The one that seems obvious to me is Eeyore who's sad all the time. Christopher Robin having schizophrenia - that's pushing it and its fictional /make believe. The characters need to be interesting with opposites to other characters to make an interesting read. If they were all the same it would be boring.

One thing I do agree with - isn't good to teach little girls to live the Princess way of thinking - eg. 'waiting for a knight in shining armor to rescue them' etc. Thank you for sharing this and it was interesting to read.

I am so amazed by how people can see mental disorders where there is none. lol the characters A.A. Milne wrote about well the book was published in the the 1920's for which many mental disorders were not even discovered yet..and researching the author will find that the christopher Robin was modeled and named after milne's son who had no mental disorders. the winnie te pooh character came from the real christopher robins stuffed teddy bear named edward, and how the real christopher robin would play with him and also based on a real live bear characters/behaviors of a live canadian bear named winnie...eeyore the author used the sound donkeys make to base that characters name and character from, Milne 's opinion was the sound donkeys make is a sad one....

all the characters and settings in winnie the pooh have perfectly normal reasons and bases for..

but like I said its amazing how human beings can project problems, mental disorders and physical health problems where there is none in reality. lol

I don't think that happens too much anymore; all the princesses usually get themselves and the prince out of trouble these days; look at "Tangled" about Rumplestiltskin and, now, "Brave" coming out tomorrow. http://disney.go.com/brave/#/videos/wisps/ (which I can't wait to see :-)

But here's another group of story characters with alleged mental disorders:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19336...illnesses.html

Oh forgoodness sakes...................

What can't a story just be a story???

I think it funny they've taken some of my favourite characters and made them as messed up as I am.

Sincerely,
Christopher Robin

lol...especially at Christopher Robin - what kid DOESN'T feel like their toys are alive and have personalities when playing with them?

Didn't mean for people to get defensive about it. I was just commenting because I thought it was odd.

It is odd and fun, Music, thanks for posting it.

yes like perna said it is odd and funny. thanks for posting it.

I've seen something similar where all the characters have drug addictions. I think people are going too far into it, but Eeyore has always struck me as someone with depression.