They share their harvests, they help one another find things that get lost, they build homes for one another when one gets blown down, they encourage one another to be brave, strong, calm, or happy when someone can be, and they offer company, comfort and acceptance when they can't.Ī.A.

The important thing is, in the end, Pooh and his friends show up for one another in big and small ways through it all. Sure, sometimes people get annoyed and patience gets lost and feelings get hurt, but that's just life for all of us.

In the Hundred Acre Wood, everyone has different mental health challenges, but no one is ostracized for them. The paper assigns mental health disorders to each character based on criteria from the 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders.' According to the authors, Pooh struggles with ADHD inattentive type and OCD and is also a binge eater, Piglet has generalized anxiety disorder, Eeyore suffers from a depressive illness called dysthymic disorder, Owl has a reading disorder, Rabbit has narcissistic personality disorder (most other analyses peg him with OCD and assign narcissism to Owl-both seem to make sense), Tigger has ADHD hyperactivity-impulsivity type, Kanga is an overprotective single mothe and little Roo is apparently impacted by both his mom's overprotectiveness and his 'undesirable peer group.' Milne' explained how the world of Winnie the Pooh and his friends was 'innocent' on the surface, but upon further examination, the paper's authors found 'a forest where neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated.'

In fact, a paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2000 titled 'Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. The idea that the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood represent distinct mental health conditions isn't new.

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