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tuatoru 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The case for not sanitising fairy tales

My wife was for a time on the board of a local hospital.

I recall her recounting a report from the head of the mental health unit saying that there was an increasing number of upper-middle-class young women with "princess syndrome" in the unit: they have been brought up to believe life is a Disney fairy tale, and cannot cope when they get out into the world. So they end up in the mental health unit.

This is maybe ten years back?

The Disney Corporation has a lot to answer for.

tptacek 5 months ago [–]

"Princess Syndrome" is not a medical diagnosis, and I encourage people to go look up the origins of the term.

tuatoru 5 months ago | [–]

No, of course it isn't. Her retelling wasn't verbatim, it was heavily edited for confidentiality, nor is my recollection 100%. It's the gist.

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