However, I find it very sad that we can't let people just be a bit quirky but instead feel the need to medicate everyone into sameness. The characters in Milne's stories comprise a community of unique individuals who function quite well in their society. Who is to say that they need to be changed, if they themselves do not? Methylphenidate for Pooh, paroxetine for Piglet, clonidine for Tigger, fluoxetine for Eeyore, and the behavior changes suggested consist mostly of separating these individuals from their support systems (get Roo away from Tigger, get Christopher Robin away from his Freudian Pooh). Our increasing use of Ritalin, Prozac, and the like, although clearly beneficial for some individuals, threatens to turn us into a society that doesn't tolerate difference. Over-medicating is a problem which clinical psychologists must heed when contemplating treatment for patients. An article such as this suggesting (however cutely) that we should be looking to medicate individuals who never sought treatment (and for the most part who never expressed any dissatisfaction with their lives) pushes this problem in the wrong direction.

Finally, predicting Kanga's dire future of struggling with multiple children 'conceived in casual relationships with different fathers, stuck at a dead end with inadequate financial resources' is stereotyping, not diagnosing. It is attitudes like this that contribute to the lack of support and choices for single mothers, and can become self-fulfilling prophesies when coming from health care professionals.