I just ran across a copy of the Wall Street Journal from 2010 that I clearly kept as comic relief because of this feature: “Fictional Stars, Real Problems – the diagnoses psychiatrists & medical school classes give characters as a way to practice for treating real people.”

And here they are:

Willy Wonka (“Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”/”Charlie & the Chocolate Factory”) – Abused child with schizotypal personality disorder

Tony Soprano (“The Sopranos”) – Panic attacks, depression

Bella Swan (“Twilight”) – Chronic low self-esteem, depression

Edward Cullen (“Twilight”) – Emotionally stunted for a 100-year-old man

Anton Chigurh (“No Country for Old Men”) – Antisocial personality disorder

Scarlett O’Hara (“Gone with the Wind”) – Narcissistic personality disorder

Winnie-the-Pooh – Obsession & cognitive impairment disorder

It’s probably a writer thing, but this amuses me to no end! :smiley4

I’d love to hear the diagnoses for even more fictional characters—if only I had the psychology/medical degree to come up with them on my own. :smiley13