I just realized something about Winnie the Pooh

[Wolfn]

I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?


http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/WINNIE_THE_POOH_group-01.jpg

[GAL-actic]

haha that's funny and true

U came up with this?

[Amaara]

:rotfl: come to think of it, with thanks to you and your thread of enlightenment, yes I do.

[Noor_Usman]

Asalamalikum.

Funnily enough you get these underlying issues with most cartoons :blobblue::outta:

[Lambo5688]

lol nice observations bro!

[Wolfn]

haha that's funny and true

U came up with this?

One of my friends gave obseravations about Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh, but I researched the rest of the characters and found their mentally troubled minds.

[sunrise]

hmm... what du think the creators were tryna do?

[LastFriday]

hmm... what du think the creators were tryna do?

better question, what do you think the creators were ON. :rubeyes:

[scribble]

:rotfl:

[AbuMubarak]

what nationality is the bunch of misfits?

[`asiya]

One of my friends gave obseravations about Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh, but I researched the rest of the characters and found their mentally troubled minds.

yea ur right there and that alice in wonderland is a spoilt brat.

[samiyah1983]

[QUOTE=Wolfn;2339619]I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?


i have seen a clip when winne the pooh is gibbering and hailing dwn infront of the mirror. ill get the link.
and in not surprised afterall disney is owned by free masions.....

[Phoenix CG]

:lol: nice observations, i didn't notice that haha, my niece loves winnie the pooh!

[Joha]

and in not surprised afterall disney is owned by free masions.....

:rofl1: :rofl1:

Bunch of characters for kids....I'm so sure it's a free mason plot to turn all our kids into weirdos *sarcasm*

[MuHiTH]

lol my little cousins love winnie the pooh

[Irfan GBH]

hmm... what du think the creators were tryna do?

Maybe they were trying to say that mentality ill people could not be locked up, but instead they should be set free to wonder the parks and streets so everyone else can watch them and laugh? :scratch:

[muslimah85]

its soo true. TV especially drams and cartoons are constructed to pass on messages to the human brain , so when we watch uncoinciously our brain is takingn in messages ie: that bulimia, homosexuality is ok etc.

I was talkiong to Sr Sarah Joesph a dear friend of mine, the other day. She was telling me about the time she was working with the BBC on the Islam season and she was saying there was not a moment in the filming of the documentires that was unaccounted for. Each second of filming was reviewed and justified. She mentioned Ugly Betty for example and how Betty's nephew has intentionally been placed in there to give a subconcious message that Homosexuality is accpetable, hence changing the perception of those who watch it.

Similarly going back to Winnie the Poo the same concept applies.

Interesting huh :)

[Mikha’eel]

I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?


http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/WINNIE_THE_POOH_group-01.jpg

:rotfl: I never paid too much attention to the others but Eeyore was obvious

[urban_rose]

good point! :D

[Salahudin]

I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?


http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/WINNIE_THE_POOH_group-01.jpg

I say thats as American as it Gets! :D

[zammy]

yah Eeyore used to depress me when I was a kid :(
tigger used to make me feel over-hyper
winnie the pooh made me crave honey
piglet ..er..made me afraid of the dark
rabbit made me look at carrots with awe and fascination
and I never paid much attention to christopher robin

I think the kangaroo family were the only normal animals in that show :rubeyes:

[AbuMubarak]

its soo true. TV especially drams and cartoons are constructed to pass on messages to the human brain , so when we watch uncoinciously our brain is takingn in messages ie: that bulimia, homosexuality is ok etc.

I was talkiong to Sr Sarah Joesph a dear friend of mine, the other day. She was telling me about the time she was working with the BBC on the Islam season and she was saying there was not a moment in the filming of the documentires that was unaccounted for. Each second of filming was reviewed and justified. She mentioned Ugly Betty for example and how Betty's nephew has intentionally been placed in there to give a subconcious message that Homosexuality is accpetable, hence changing the perception of those who watch it.

Similarly going back to Winnie the Poo the same concept applies.

Interesting huh :)

on a real serious note, i have also noticed similar plots of every disney movie, which teaches children to rebel against parents, rebel against tradition, and at the end of every movie, the child was right and the parent was wrong

simpsons is known for its immoral messages

bugs bunny was very suggestive as a child

and basically each and every cartoon has its messages

now whether this is planned or moreso just the ethics of the writer and society as they are not portraying islam, but their view of the world, that is a different discussion

[thurber]

I say thats as American as it Gets! :D

And yet, the author is A.A. Milne, a British citizen who lived in Ashdown Forest, Sussex.

[Mace]

I say thats as American as it Gets! :D

I think Gopher was the only character that wasn't in the original books. If you read the original books, all the other characters were very similar to the later Disney productions.

So Disney didn't add the neuroses. :)

[muslimma]

i like your observations bro wolfn

but ther are a lot of these hidden stereotypes behind childrens cartoons

in many you may find :( sad really

for example tinky winky in the teletubbies (purple= colour of gay pride, male voice holding handbag?? :confused: and also the triangle on the top of his head apparehntly the gay pride symbol)

[samiyah1983]

:rofl1: :rofl1:

Bunch of characters for kids....I'm so sure it's a free mason plot to turn all our kids into weirdos *sarcasm*

if u dont know try and find out and not be sarcastic about it..

if u go on to utube and type satanic disney, it will give u all the details.
also y in the little mermaid has her castle got a shpe of a mans penis....

[zammy]

woah. :rubeyes:

[Mace]

if u go on to utube and type satanic disney, it will give u all the details.
also y in the little mermaid has her castle got a shpe of a mans penis....

Do you take that video seriously???

[thurber]

I think Gopher was the only character that wasn't in the original books. If you read the original books, all the other characters were very similar to the later Disney productions.

So Disney didn't add the neuroses. :)

And in reality, Milne's characters are no more in need of therapy, than any of us are:

Poor Winnie The Pooh. Not Even He Is Safe From Rampant 'Therapism'

Ben Macintyre

ON THE MORNING of July 7, I watched a commuter, who had just emerged dazed and smoke-grimed from an Underground station, being asked whether he would like to see a trauma counsellor. Politely, but firmly, he declined, and staggered off. The counsellor looked disappointed and mildly disapproving.

I cite this episode not as further evidence of British sang-froid in the face of terrorism (there are so many stiff upper lips in the media at the moment it is surprising any of us can still speak), but of something more profound. There is a widespread assumption that most people, and particularly those suffering from loss or shock, are by definition in need of psychological treatment, trauma counselling and cathartic emotional disclosure.

Even apparently well-adjusted creatures such as Winnie the Pooh have been hauled on to the couch. A group of Canadian psychologists recently published a paper on the hero of Hundred Acre Wood, and found that in addition to being “a bear of very little brain”, Pooh is suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, binge-eating of honey and “borderline cognitive functioning”. While not a complete fruitcake, Pooh, they concluded, is certainly a few sultanas short of a full loaf.

The satire was well-aimed, for Pooh is not alone. Jim Windolf, writing in The Wall Street Journal, studied the statistics put out by mental health agencies in the US and calculated that 77 per cent of Americans are suffering (or think they are suffering) from some sort of emotional disorder. These include women depressed about their self-image, men who cannot live up to some masculine ideal and people with eating disorders and addictions ranging from cocaine to the internet. The trauma industry has evolved an army of experts to explore feelings and vent them: “self-esteem educators”, “degrieving professionals”, “traumatologists” and “ventilationists”, all busily identifying and measuring emotions, the better to expose them to the bracing light of day.

In a remarkable new book, One Nation Under Therapy, Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel have identified the spread of what they call therapism, the growing, quasi-religious belief that humans are generally fragile and in need of psychological aid. According to the tenets of therapism, children must be protected from competition, lest their self-esteem is bruised; sharing emotions is good and reticence a sign of repression, possibly leading to post-traumatic stress disorder; normal human emotions, including grief, stress and sadness, are pathologies to be tended and cured. People who reject therapy are deemed to be in denial, and thus doubly at risk. Satel, a psychiatrist, and Sommers, a philosopher, argue that the emphasis on therapy is steadily eroding such characteristics as stoicism, self-belief and self-reliance.

No one would deny that psychotherapy has proved a boon to many, while doctors have developed medications for treating devastating mental illness that have transformed the lives of millions. Some therapies are not appreciated enough: in this country, counselling for bereaved children is woefully underfunded.

But where therapism goes too far is in the assumption that all human beings are essentially weak, unable to confront on their own the quotidian neuroses of life. The therapeutic culture has reached hilarious extremes in America. Some schools have banned teachers’ red marking pens in favour of lavender ink, on the grounds that red may seem too judgmental. Traditional playground games such as tag are being replaced by new, stress-free games in which no one can ever suffer from being “out” (the sort of game the England cricket team must dream about). Such thinking is swiftly spreading from the US: this month the Professional Association of Teachers in Britain proposed that the word “fail” be banned from classrooms in favour of “deferred success”, so as not to undermine pupils’ enthusiasm.

The latest research suggests that cultivating self-esteem and encouraging emotional ventilation may be detrimental to some personalities. There is no necessary correlation between self-satisfaction and achievement, while an unmerited, narcissistic sense of self-worth has been directly linked to antisocial behaviour. For some, the suppression of feelings is not necessarily a sign of psychological frailty but the reverse, an adaptive and healthy response. Conversely, being forced to discuss emotions can lead to self-pity and introspection. The expression of uninhibited emotion is fashionable, but there also is much to be said for bottling it up, for private consolation.

This is heresy within the trauma industry. Afterf 9/11, the US Government launched Project Liberty to encourage New Yorkers to undergo counselling: “Feel free to feel better” said the slogan. The organisers expected at least 1.5 million people to seek help, but after eight months less than one tenth of that number had turned up. With ingenious logic, some psychotherapists then claimed that the low turnout showed that New Yorkers did not know, or refused to admit, how deeply traumatised they were. It seems more likely that they had found solace elsewhere: with friends, family and within themselves.

Humanity is tougher, and more buoyant, than the practitioners of pop psychology would have us believe. Once it was a sign of weakness to seek therapy. Many of those touched by earlier wars simply refused to talk about the experience. Today the cultural pressure runs in the opposite direction, to the point where the person who seeks his own succour, in silence, is failing to address the inner demons.

There is no emotionally correct response to shock: some gain strength from airing their feelings; others do not. It is entirely right that the damaged individual should want to seek comfort through professional therapy, but equally there is nothing ignoble in walking away, like the stunned commuter at Aldgate station, and going home to have a bath, a drink and a think. He did not consider himself a victim in need of psychological help, and nor did Winnie the Pooh.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1068-1712630,00.html

[Tranquillity]

It's funny when you think about it. I think Winnie-the-Pooh has come up a few times in pychological studies recently.

Does anyone know that other well known theory that EVERYONE you know can be likened to a Winnie-the-Pooh character? It kind of works... :D

[Mace]

Does anyone know that other well known theory that EVERYONE you know can be likened to a Winnie-the-Pooh character? It kind of works... :D

Sure, that's a key part of the formula of making any book or movie successful. You want as many people as possible to be able to identify in some way with at least one character.

[perfectpearl]

BUT they are soooooo cute. :inlove:



btw that would make a really good psychology paper! :D ... it really would!

[Cristiana]

I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?




http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/WINNIE_THE_POOH_group-01.jpg

LOL!!! I noticed the ones above...and yes, Pooh is definitaly an addict!!!!

[Stylish-Girly]

ROFL thats classic

A bit off topic but there was somethin goin on about a rude word appearin in stars in the Lion King (looks down) i got upset because i liked it as a kid.. Disney wants to mess with kiddies heads

its soo true. TV especially drams and cartoons are constructed to pass on messages to the human brain , so when we watch uncoinciously our brain is takingn in messages ie: that bulimia, homosexuality is ok etc.

I was talkiong to Sr Sarah Joesph a dear friend of mine, the other day. She was telling me about the time she was working with the BBC on the Islam season and she was saying there was not a moment in the filming of the documentires that was unaccounted for. Each second of filming was reviewed and justified. She mentioned Ugly Betty for example and how Betty's nephew has intentionally been placed in there to give a subconcious message that Homosexuality is accpetable, hence changing the perception of those who watch it.

Similarly going back to Winnie the Poo the same concept applies.

Interesting huh :)

Yea it is man

[Wolfn]

LOL!!! I noticed the ones above...and yes, Pooh is definitaly an addict!!!!


Yes.....he is.

[R3FL3CT]

Everybody has issues : cartoons are just a way of letting kids know that its normal to be a messed up, honey eating bear with a red T-shirt. Its okay because you'll still have friends and you'll still be loved. Mushy really.

[bitter_sweet]

:rofl1::rofl1::rofl1:

[Rosalie-Beauty]

whoa, now all my childhood innocence is ruined. I shall never see cartoon characters the same way again.

Although I always knew that Cinderella was irritaitingly fake.

[Morris]

piglet ..er..made me afraid of the dark


:


Piglet made you afriad of the dark:( He's the cutest thing!

[Muhammad2]

I love how people assume Winnie The Pooh was an American creation just because of the cartoons :p

And, as I seem to recall, Christopher Robin is 5 or 6 years old. Not ten

[Morris]

I love how people assume Winnie The Pooh was an American creation just because of the cartoons :p



Lol yeah they can't leave anything alone.:rolleyes:

[Muhammad2]

Yeah, they probably think Sherlock Holmes was created by an Englishman, too :rolleyes:

[Kal-El]

I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?


http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/WINNIE_THE_POOH_group-01.jpg

I wish I had you as a friend here Wolfn

[PiElle2]

we never noticed all the bad sides of these characters when we were watching them as kids, but they slowly come to realisation that these cartoons are not as innocent as they first appear to be, cos they are disguised in cute drawings innit...?

somehow the kids are innocent enought to overlook all these, kids generally can overlook the shortcomings of anyone, any adult cos their kids innit. May Allah bless all these young and naive souls. yes, the cartoons really look fun, alot of people laugh very hard about it, but as you all know, our brain absorp what we see and we carry out our thoughts and words and actions, processed from what was absorp in our minds int he first place.

i have noticed the lately trend where parents blonk their kinds in front of such tv or video programmes to keep them occupied while freeing their hands to do other chores...:rubeyes: that's such a dangerous start to condemn a toddler's mind, and their eyesight, these kids are like 1-2 years old... :(

[Wolfn]

I wish I had you as a friend here Wolfn

Aw, why thank you. :)

[Rosalie-Beauty]

Now that I think about it, some of the characters on Spongebob Squarepants seem to have developed major phycological disorders.

why cant we just watch them and be happy? :scratch:

[susu12092]

Now that I think about it, some of the characters on Spongebob Squarepants seem to have developed major phycological disorders.

why cant we just watch them and be happy? :scratch:

Yea squidward is a little depressed, patrick's just retarded, and spongebob has ADHD. haha:rofl1:

[Tahiyah]

i remember hearing that shaggy and scooby were stoners because they both constantly had the munchies

[Neurostyler]

I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?


http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/WINNIE_THE_POOH_group-01.jpg

Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/163/12/1557 ;)

[Ebony]

I just realized all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh" have mental problems


Winnie the Pooh: eating disorder, obsessed with certain things (ex: honey)
Rabbit: paranoia schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive
Piglet: Scorching case of various phobias
Tigger: Attention Deficit Disorder
Eeyore: Depressed, suicidal
Christopher Robin: a ten year old boy who thinks his stuffed animals are alive
Owl: Says things that make no sense, clearly messed up in the head
Gopher: always falls into his hole, memory problems, balance issues


Anyone else notice this?


http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/WINNIE_THE_POOH_group-01.jpg

:rotfl:

[Jilbabi]

i dnt know if any1 else has said this but what i noticed is, winnie the pooh dusnt wear any pants


behsharam :eek: (shameless)

[Te'oma]

I love how people assume Winnie The Pooh was an American creation just because of the cartoons :p

And, as I seem to recall, Christopher Robin is 5 or 6 years old. Not ten

ummm well yopu could say that it was a joint Canadian/british collaberation. Winnie is actually short for winnipeg, a bear that was the mascot for the second Canadian infantry brigade.
BTW tigger was always my favourite :D

[perfectpearl]

and yet he sooo cute :inlove:

lol good observation but still isnt pooh so adorable :o :inlove:

[perfectpearl]

ummm well yopu could say that it was a joint Canadian/british collaberation. Winnie is actually short for winnipeg, a bear that was the mascot for the second Canadian infantry brigade.
BTW tigger was always my favourite :D

lol yeah tigger was always my fav too :D ... his always good spirited