Soft and Mental

So we already got stuffed toys in the shape of bacteria and subatomic particles plushies.  

Next up, stuffed toys with mental illnesses.

Meet Lilo, for instance, the blue hippo diagnosed with OCD.  How do we know he has OCD, apart from his insatiable obsession with his jigsaw puzzle?  I'm not really sure.  I'm guessing Lilo also washes his hands thirty times a day and folds the blanket ever so neatly and perfectly.

And there's Dolly, the split-personality sheep can't decide whether she's really a sheep or a wolf in sheep's clothing.  (Actually, she's cloned, but let's not tell her.)

These sick-in-the-head plushies are from German toy company Paraplush--which also felt it their mission to throw in the mix a severely-depressed turtle, a hallucinating snake (fixated on his rattle), a paranoid hydrophobic croc, and a megalomaniac raven named Dr. Wood.  Hmmmm.


Each stuffed toy comes with a medical history and a prescribed treatment plan.  A nice harmless toy, if you can take a joke, but apparently there are some who aren't amused and instead offended.

Of course we all know psychiatry is chock-a-block with other mental disorders--some too morbid to objectify and immortalize in a stuffed toy.  There's exhibitionism, narcissism, catatonia, kleptomania, anorexia nervosa, Munchausen syndrome, psychopathy, and necrophilia--to name a few.  So we're guessing Paraplush has a few more stitching and controversial stuffing to do.