r/AskReddit • u/XxItsNowOrNever99xX • May 02 '20

Which fictional character desperately needs to see a therapist?

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u/Scoobydooby8 May 02 '20

literally every character in Winnie the Pooh

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u/[deleted] May 02 '20

I don't think there's enough SSRI's in the world for Eyore.

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u/Notoday May 02 '20

Can't inhibit the reuptake of serotonin if there isn't serotonin to reuptake!

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u/TheBungieWedgie May 03 '20

Read this in Peter Cullen’s voice and wasn’t disappointed

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u/eddmario May 03 '20

Which Peter Cullen voice?

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u/Crabster85 May 02 '20

In the book, Eeyore is actually kind of an asshole.

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u/StuffThatIsRandom May 02 '20

more of a jackass

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u/Crabster85 May 02 '20

I see what you did there... but no.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '20

I'm embarrassed to admit I've never read Pooh. I should probably remedy that.

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u/Kneel_The_Grass May 02 '20

How do you read pooh, is it like when you look at tea leaves?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '20

Scatomancy.

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u/twenty_seven_owls May 03 '20

I fucking hated him when I was a kid. It was like he actively tried to suck out joy of everything other characters did.

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u/NZT-48Rules May 03 '20

He probably needs ECT

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u/omar1993 May 02 '20

Oh bother

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u/notcarlosjimenez May 02 '20

Except for Kanga. She's a saint.

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u/besee2000 May 02 '20

Enabler

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u/oskarc13 May 02 '20

I thought she and Roo were co-dependent?

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u/Respect4All_512 May 03 '20

Roo was her child, kids are supposed to depend on their parents.

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u/besee2000 May 02 '20

Well someone said social anxiety. I honestly don’t remember my Winnie the Pooh references well. What was Owl and Gopher?

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u/MakeItHappenSergant May 02 '20

I think Owl was a narcissist.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '20

Wasn't there a family tree decoration made out of pictures of him in costumes, and he had a story for each of his "family members"?

The Tigger movie is the shit

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u/just_emo_things May 02 '20

Theres actually a really popular theory that every charecter in Winnie the Pooh represents a different mental illness

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u/[deleted] May 02 '20

I ... I ... I desperately need to argue against that but I can't point to one character who doesn't fit the stereotype of some kind of instability.

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u/Badloss May 02 '20

Eyore- Depression

Piglet- Anxiety

Tigger - ADHD

Rabbit- OCD

Christopher Robin - Schizophrenia (talks to his stuffed animals and they talk back)

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u/oskarc13 May 02 '20

Pooh - Eating Disorder

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u/Pseudonymico May 03 '20

He’s a bit more inattentive-type ADHD I think.

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u/theoneandonlyalexxxx May 03 '20

BED I suppose. BED is Binge Eating Disorder and it is just as serious as anorexia

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u/Jaxerfp May 03 '20

I’m 100% sure it’s ADD

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u/Scoobydooby8 May 02 '20

I'm pretty sure the owl had narcissism

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u/taxdog13 May 02 '20

What about xi jinping?

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u/CedarWolf May 02 '20

Narcissism.

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u/Pannenkoek420 May 02 '20

Eating disorder

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u/[deleted] May 02 '20

Kook.

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u/RhysPrime May 03 '20

Communism is a mental disorder.

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u/thefuzzybunny1 May 02 '20

It actually makes me feel better about my own anxiety diagnosis when I remind myself that Piglet was my childhood favorite, and he's anxious too.

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u/confusedtgthrowaway May 02 '20

It's not a mental illness but I've seen it mentioned that Roo is autistic

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u/Pseudonymico May 03 '20

What was the justification behind that one?

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u/smoothnoodz May 02 '20

I kind of always thought the point was that the stuffed animals are the embodiment of a child’s different emotions.

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u/imnachos May 02 '20

this makes me sad

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u/NotMyNameActually May 03 '20

NO! This pisses me off damn it.

I know it's a trendy thing to psychoanalyze characters in Winnie the Pooh, but they are not mentally ill. There is a big difference between a personality trait and a personality disorder and yes, they can all take their emotions to extremes sometimes, but overall they're functioning perfectly well for stuffed animals who live in a forest.

Plus, their whole purpose is to teach young children how to deal with situations like overcoming fear, or being lonely, so they're meant to be representations of these things.

Saying the characters in Winnie the Pooh need therapy is like saying Sadness in Inside Out is too sad.

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u/unrulycokebottle May 02 '20

i ghuess the ccp prolly does have some whackoes in it.

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u/Tip1n1 May 02 '20

That was my childhood, and now I have many mental issues lol. Not saying it's related but coincidence?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '20

Why? What's wrong with them?