Legal Name: Work Cited Winnie the Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

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HSP3U

Pooh Bear’s House,

December 1, 2019 (Due Date)
Hundred Acre Woods
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Physical Presentation:
Pooh is extremely overweight, perhaps even
clinically obese.

Diet:
Pooh’s diet consists mainly of honey. Much of his
attention is taken up by food - either eating,
procuring or counting it, and even just thinking
about it.

Family Background:
No information is available on pooh’s early years or
his family of origin.

Diagnosis:
Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder,
Predominantly Inattentive Type.

Winnie-the-Pooh’s failure to pay attention to detail

and his inability to think things through cause
trouble in his day-to-day life.
Patient Notes:
Winnie-the-Pooh appears vague much of
the time and often begins tasks he cannot finish,
such as counting pots of honey. The size of his
brain is frequently called into question - usually by
suffered of AD/HD go on to have successful
himself - although it is unlikely there is any
physical anomaly.
Interestingly, although he often gets
He appears to need to think very
carefully before doing anything, but often
becomes distracted before he has been
able to see a clear path ahead. He
sometimes writes notes to help him
with this; it would seem, however,
that they make little sense.
to a more useful pastime, it would
Pooh’s forgetfulness and
inability to plan ahead generally
cause trouble. He built a trap to
catch a Heffalump, but then failed
either to remember where it was or to
signpost it adequately, and so ended
up trapped himself.
Even though Winnie-the-Pooh and tigger
Pooh is well liked and
generous, but often this results in
problems. On one occasion he decided
his friend Eeyore needed a house, but failed to
consult Eeyore first and ended up dismantling the
house Eeyore had painstakingly built for himself.
of AD/HD that may be applied to Pooh, this being
Pooh cannot tell left from right, which
causes him some confusion. In addition, his
cognition appears faulty. Often he knows he
needs to think about thinking about thinking
about it that he fails actually to think about the
matter in question. This inattention is noticed
within his community; Eeyore, for example
attributes it to lack of education.
of the inattentive but the sufferer doesn’t behave
Winnie-the-pooh is overweight and overly
interested in eating, indicating he may also have
issues with food, perhaps even an addiction to
honey. The clock at his house appears to be Prognosis
stuck at 5 to eleven, which is conveniently is the While AD/HD is believed to be incurable,
time he likes to have a snack. However, this may it is possible with the correct care and treatment
be because he hasn’t noticed that it is not for there to be marked improvement. Many adult
working or has tried but failed to fix it.
Pooh enjoys making up song. careers. In Pooh’s case, the catering industry
might provide a suitable working environment in
distracted, this one task he usually which he could put his passion for food to more
manages to complete almost to the constructive use.
end. The noise does cause some
distress to his friends and
neighbours, however. If he could learn
Treatment
Pooh would probably benefit from a
to apply the same degree of attention
combination of drug and behaviour therapy,
which focuses on helping the individual to follow
probably be of great help to him in the
tasks through to the end and set up systems to
longer term as well as contributing to the
deal with simple day-to-day tasks, such as
community as a whole.
remembering where one has put things, would
raise Pooh’s self-esteem as he would begin to
AD/HD - Predominantly learn how to manage his life more successfully.
Inattentive Type - the Facts Adjusting his diet would improve Pooh’s mental
functioning and would have the added benefit of
seem exceptionally different in their characters aiding weight loss. He would then be rather less
and behaviour, they both meet the diagnostic likely to inconvenience Rabbit - or indeed any
criteria for the overall category of AD/HD. Each underground resident of Hundred Acre Wood - by
animal however meets the criteria for a different blocking his front door.
subtype. It is the Predominantly Inattentive Type
characterized by a pattern of inattention rather
than the hyper-impulsivity. Like Pooh many
sufferers of this type of AD/HD seem to be very
dreamy, as if their attention is focused elsewhere.
This leads to mistakes at school or work, and
means projects are often left unfinished. This
subtype is diagnosed when there are symptoms
in a way that could be described as either
hyperactive or impulsive.