Posted on Dec 7, 2025
Do Winnie the Pooh Characters really represent different mental disorders?
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CPL Douglas Chrysler
PO3 Phyllis Maynard No, it's when the TV shows came out with these characters I was busy with other projects and missed them all.
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PO3 Phyllis Maynard
CPL Douglas Chrysler well, no time like the present, to do something that life did not allow for when we were making our marks and carving out our American dream. This is what I do presently. I cannot make up for lost time, but I can take the time left and live it to the fullest.
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I think it depends on who you ask, and from whose perspective. From a child's perspective, particularly one whose innocence is still whole, there is nothing necessarily wrong with any character, and each of them learn something in each story.
From an adult's perspective I think it is a risky measure to actively look for anything internally wrong with anyone, including fictitious characters, at least until some quality in-depth investigating has happened. The quacks, as I've come to think of them, who dictate certain psychological doctrine have spent so much time finding something flawed in everyone that they completely and utterly failed at defining what can be considered as both normal and reasonable of an average person. If the author wrote these as a means of coping with his own trauma, then that's that. End of story, and I've come to mildly despise people who have us look far deeper into a character or a story's circumstance than the author ever intended. JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth is rife with such examples. I'm not saying he gave us shallow writing; far from that, but some things are left mysterious on purpose from the author's perspective.
From an adult's perspective I think it is a risky measure to actively look for anything internally wrong with anyone, including fictitious characters, at least until some quality in-depth investigating has happened. The quacks, as I've come to think of them, who dictate certain psychological doctrine have spent so much time finding something flawed in everyone that they completely and utterly failed at defining what can be considered as both normal and reasonable of an average person. If the author wrote these as a means of coping with his own trauma, then that's that. End of story, and I've come to mildly despise people who have us look far deeper into a character or a story's circumstance than the author ever intended. JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth is rife with such examples. I'm not saying he gave us shallow writing; far from that, but some things are left mysterious on purpose from the author's perspective.
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PO3 Phyllis Maynard
SGT Aaron Atwood what is so wonderful about children engaging with Winnie the Pooh characters is they interact and say what they see. They have not formed critical educational opinions. If they were to say, "Eeorye is always so sad", they do not know that Eeorye represents manic depression.
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A comprehensive psych eval of all of the characters in the Flintstones would certainly be interesting
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