I r afraid of watur.
I’m not making this up, internet. Hell, I couldn’t make this up even if I wanted to.
Martin Kittseiner is a German toymaker who’s hoping to make it big with one of his creations: mentally ill soft toys. No, seriously. His toys suffer from illnesses ranging from bipolar disorder to acute depression, and are sold with a medical history sheet, a referral letter and a treatment plan.
One of the toys, Kroko the crocodile, has an irrational terror of water and his description on the shopping site reads:
“The patient’s hypersensitive hallucinatory perception is a symptom of a paranoid psychosis. The signs are a mental block and a Gestaltzerfall (disintegration of structure) of the habitual field of experience. The consequence is a compensational reactivation of archaic reaction patterns.”
Judging by the language used in the description, I’m not sure if the toys are targeted at (genius) 6-year-olds or psychiatry students. Whichever the case, the idea is kinda creepy and kinda cute at the same time.
Other patients include Dolly, a sheep who thinks she’s a wolf, Dub the turtle who suffers from severe depression and Sly the snake who suffers from terrifying hallucinations.
Would you buy something like this for your kids?
