According to a Canadian medical study of this well-known menage, two members are suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, while another is a victim of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. A fourth would benefit from antidepressants, and a fifth is smart but evidently dyslexic. Finally, a young member of the group is growing up in a single-parent household and is at risk for all kinds of havoc in adolescence. Now, who might these famous but afflicted friends be?

zbeckabee

Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and their forest friends are "seriously troubled individuals" according to Canadian researchers. Far from being the innocent world it appears to be on the surface, Hundred Acre Wood is, say the reseachers, a place where psycho-social problems are not recognised or treated. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1068391.stm Nov 29 06, 6:01 PM

lanfranco

And the silver Hunnypot to you, zbeck! Here's the original article in the "Canadian Medical Association Journal," Dec. 12, 2000, vol. 163 (12). It was, as it happens, a holiday piece: http://www.lavasurfer.com/100akerpathology.pdf Nov 29 06, 6:12 PM