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13th Dec 2000, 11:53 PM
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Psychological assessment finds Pooh & co. in need of medication
By HELEN BRANSWELL -- Canadian Press
TORONTO -- It all seemed so innocent, so carefree, When We Were Very Young.
But some Halifax doctors fear the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh is inhabited by some Seriously Troubled Individuals.
Pooh is obsessive-compulsive, they say. Eeyore is chronically depressed. Piglet needs medication. Cute little Roo is a juvenile delinquent-in-the-making. And Christopher Robin has some gender issues.
"Sadly, the forest is not, in fact, a place of enchantment, but rather one of disenchantment, where neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated," a team of developmental pediatricians opines in the holiday issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
"It is unfortunate that an Expotition was never Organdized to a Child Developmental Clinic," they add.
Oh, bother!
The team, led by Dr. Sarah-the-Shea, studied the classic tales about the bear and his boy.
Its findings -- wryly tongue-in-cheek in keeping with the medical journal's tradition of lighter fare at Christmas -- conclude that there is a Dark Underside to the world A.A. Milne created for his son, Christopher Robin.
"I have to say -- I love these characters. But they've got issues," says Shea, a pediatrician specializing in developmental and behavioural pediatrics at Izaak Walton Killiam Hospital in Halifax.
Take Pooh, for starters.
"Pooh's perseveration on food and his repetitive counting behaviours raise the diagnostic possibility of obsessive compulsive disorder," they say, adding that even more striking is his obvious attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
The combination of the two suggest that over time, Pooh may develop Tourette's syndrome -- a neurological disorder in which people exhibit uncontrollable tics and at times outbursts of profanity, the doctors prognosticate.
They are also worried about Pooh's own admission that he is a Bear of Very Little Brain and suggest Christopher Robin may be to blame.
"Early on we see Pooh being dragged downstairs bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. Could his later cognitive struggles be the result of a type of Shaken Bear Syndrome?"
Pooh could lead a much richer life were he on low-dose stimulation medication, they suggest, adding it might help him compose and remember more poems like the following:
"I take a PILL-tiddley pom;
It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom;
It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom;
Not fiddling."
Piglet's anxiety over the heffalumps proves he needs anti-panic drugs. Eeyore could do with a dose of St. John's wort as he suffers both from dysthymia (chronic depression) and anhe(haw)donia -- the inability to enjoy life.
"It clearly applies," Shea insists.
Wise old Owl -- who spells his name WOL -- is obviously dyslexic. Rabbit, who shows a persistent tendency to self-aggrandize and a compulsive need to organize the others has obviously missed his calling, the medical experts note.
"He clearly belongs in senior-level hospital administration."
The future looks bleak for Roo, the product of a single-parent household whose best friend, Tigger, has a recurrent pattern of risk-taking behaviour and suffers from both impulsivity and hyperactivity.
"We predict we will someday see a delinquent, jaded, adolescent Roo hanging out late at night at the top of the forest, the ground littered with broken bottles of extract of malt and the butts of smoked thistles."
Kanga's future too looks bleak, the doctors predict.
"It is highly likely that she will end up older, blowsier, struggling to look after several joeys conceived in casual relationships with different fathers, stuck at a dead end with inadequate financial resources."
And then there's Christopher Robin, he of the Prince Valiant haircut and questionable clothing.
"He's wearing dresses," Shea says flatly, though she acknowledged that given his young age there's probably "potential for change with time."
"The more psychoanalytical members of our group indicated that there could be some Freudian meaning to his peculiar naming of his bear as Winnie-the-Pooh," the doctors note.
So what does this say about our culture that this cast of misfits is arguably the most beloved in children's literature?
Shea suggests there is something redeeming in the fact that we love the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood, warts and all.
"It could also say that our group has lost its collective mind," she adds with a hearty laugh.
That group -- Shea and doctors Ann-the-Hawkins, Janet-the-Kawchuk, Donna-the-Smith and Kevin-the-Gordon -- may next turn their attention to Kay Thompson's magical Eloise series.
Eloise, a rambunctious little girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel, gets up to all sorts of high jinks under the lax guidance of her minder, Nanny.
"Nanny clearly drinks," Shea says.
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I always said that there are some people that should never be allowed to bear firearms. This shrink is one of them.
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Psychological assessment finds Pooh & co. in need of medication
By HELEN BRANSWELL -- Canadian Press
TORONTO -- It all seemed so innocent, so carefree, When We Were Very Young.
But some Halifax doctors fear the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh is inhabited by some Seriously Troubled Individuals.
Pooh is obsessive-compulsive, they say. Eeyore is chronically depressed. Piglet needs medication. Cute little Roo is a juvenile delinquent-in-the-making. And Christopher Robin has some gender issues.
"Sadly, the forest is not, in fact, a place of enchantment, but rather one of disenchantment, where neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated," a team of developmental pediatricians opines in the holiday issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
"It is unfortunate that an Expotition was never Organdized to a Child Developmental Clinic," they add.
Oh, bother!
The team, led by Dr. Sarah-the-Shea, studied the classic tales about the bear and his boy.
Its findings -- wryly tongue-in-cheek in keeping with the medical journal's tradition of lighter fare at Christmas -- conclude that there is a Dark Underside to the world A.A. Milne created for his son, Christopher Robin.
"I have to say -- I love these characters. But they've got issues," says Shea, a pediatrician specializing in developmental and behavioural pediatrics at Izaak Walton Killiam Hospital in Halifax.
Take Pooh, for starters.
"Pooh's perseveration on food and his repetitive counting behaviours raise the diagnostic possibility of obsessive compulsive disorder," they say, adding that even more striking is his obvious attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
The combination of the two suggest that over time, Pooh may develop Tourette's syndrome -- a neurological disorder in which people exhibit uncontrollable tics and at times outbursts of profanity, the doctors prognosticate.
They are also worried about Pooh's own admission that he is a Bear of Very Little Brain and suggest Christopher Robin may be to blame.
"Early on we see Pooh being dragged downstairs bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. Could his later cognitive struggles be the result of a type of Shaken Bear Syndrome?"
Pooh could lead a much richer life were he on low-dose stimulation medication, they suggest, adding it might help him compose and remember more poems like the following:
"I take a PILL-tiddley pom;
It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom;
It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom;
Not fiddling."
Piglet's anxiety over the heffalumps proves he needs anti-panic drugs. Eeyore could do with a dose of St. John's wort as he suffers both from dysthymia (chronic depression) and anhe(haw)donia -- the inability to enjoy life.
"It clearly applies," Shea insists.
Wise old Owl -- who spells his name WOL -- is obviously dyslexic. Rabbit, who shows a persistent tendency to self-aggrandize and a compulsive need to organize the others has obviously missed his calling, the medical experts note.
"He clearly belongs in senior-level hospital administration."
The future looks bleak for Roo, the product of a single-parent household whose best friend, Tigger, has a recurrent pattern of risk-taking behaviour and suffers from both impulsivity and hyperactivity.
"We predict we will someday see a delinquent, jaded, adolescent Roo hanging out late at night at the top of the forest, the ground littered with broken bottles of extract of malt and the butts of smoked thistles."
Kanga's future too looks bleak, the doctors predict.
"It is highly likely that she will end up older, blowsier, struggling to look after several joeys conceived in casual relationships with different fathers, stuck at a dead end with inadequate financial resources."
And then there's Christopher Robin, he of the Prince Valiant haircut and questionable clothing.
"He's wearing dresses," Shea says flatly, though she acknowledged that given his young age there's probably "potential for change with time."
"The more psychoanalytical members of our group indicated that there could be some Freudian meaning to his peculiar naming of his bear as Winnie-the-Pooh," the doctors note.
So what does this say about our culture that this cast of misfits is arguably the most beloved in children's literature?
Shea suggests there is something redeeming in the fact that we love the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood, warts and all.
"It could also say that our group has lost its collective mind," she adds with a hearty laugh.
That group -- Shea and doctors Ann-the-Hawkins, Janet-the-Kawchuk, Donna-the-Smith and Kevin-the-Gordon -- may next turn their attention to Kay Thompson's magical Eloise series.
Eloise, a rambunctious little girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel, gets up to all sorts of high jinks under the lax guidance of her minder, Nanny.
"Nanny clearly drinks," Shea says.
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I always said that there are some people that should never be allowed to bear firearms. This shrink is one of them.
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I write messeges on money, its my own form of social protest.
A letter printed on paper that no one will destroy.