As a kid growing up I watched Winnie The Pooh every week. It was one of my absolute favorite shows on tv. From Tigger to Piglet to Eeyore and Winnie The Pooh himself I couldn’t get enough of this wonderful imaginative cartoon.
It appears that the characters all represent a different mental illness. Eyeore is pretty obvious, but if you thnk abut it, everything makes sense. See below the issues the Hundred Acre Wood residents are having.
Winnie the Pooh
It is quite certain that Pooh Bear battles with ADHD, among others, yet extreme ADHD has all the earmarks of being the fundamental concern. His scattered thoughts, chaotic way of life, irregularity and constant forgetfulness all shout ADHD to me.
Eyeore
No matter how many shows I watch with them, Eyeore in most of the episodes is sad or depressed, and he is likely the saddest character ever. It is clear he experiences extreme depression.
Roo
The child of Kanga, Roo appears to suffer of autism. Roo appears to work on two opposite ends; some of the time he doesn’t focus on anything that is going on around him, and he winds up in to some pretty risky circumstances. Sometimes he chooses to sit discreetly in his mother’s pocket, ignoring everyone around him. This sound like autism for us.
Piglet
Piglet if definitely the picture of anxiety. He is continually stressed over what may happen, and sudden shocks like noises and movements make him run and hide. Piglet appreciates things to be quiet and calm.
Kanga
A sensible spectator may have the capacity to tell that Kanga experiences Social Anxiety Disorder. Kanga stresses for her child, and about how she will survive as a solitary parent in the Hundred Acre Wood. What’s more, if Roo really has autism, it could make her anxiety to escalate. This could be one reason she always have an eye on Roo, or have him tucked in her pouch.
Rabbit
If there was ever a case for a character to have OCD, Rabbit is the ideal specimen. You can guess by the way that he needs to have everything in his life always organized, and that any interruption of that organization causes him a considerable measure of misery, that he likely experiences OCD. He gets extremely agitated when his reality isn’t perfect around him.
Tigger
Tigger is the ideal specimen of hyper-activity. The character can’t sit still for a minute, and he always take impulsive choices. Tigger likewise thinks that everybody around him wants to be part of whatever he is doing.
Christopher Robin
As the only human to hang out in the Hundred Acre Wood, and the majority of the inhabitants of the wood are his toys, it is anything but difficult to see that the world is big creation of his imagination. Christopher Robin’s creative ability is so vivid, meaning that he possibly experiences schizophrenia. This doesn’t imply that he hears and sees things that aren’t there, yet that his psyche can part from reality. Hence the totally created, and detailed universe of the Hundred Acre Wood.
