Winnie the Pooh Characters 'Seriously Troubled'
Wednesday December 13 10:30 AM ET
Winnie the Pooh Characters 'Seriously Troubled'
TORONTO (Reuters) - Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger and Christopher Robin are "seriously troubled individuals" living in the "disenchanted" Hundred Acre Wood and are in dire need of psychoactive drugs, Canadian researchers said.
The characters in A.A. Milne's famous children's stories suffer from unrecognized and untreated problems including attention deficit disorder and chronic depression, said a tongue-in-cheek study by pediatricians at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Winnie himself could benefit from a low-dose stimulant to help him overcome attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as obsessive-compulsive tendencies that include repetitive counting and an insatiable lust for honey.
"Pooh needs intervention. We feel drugs are in order. We cannot help but wonder how much richer Pooh's life might be were he to have a trial of low-dose stimulant medication," the article states.
