Is Lucy (of Peanuts) BPD?

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Greetings,

This is a little off topic but an interesting diversion for a summer

weekend.

I am reading (?) Peanuts Treasury from 1968. Some of the strips with Lucy

are not at all funny. They are exactly the behaviors of a mentally ill

person! One with BPD of which we are all too familiar.

Some examples:

Linus checking the TV listings: Here it is ... 3 o'clock ... " Doctors' Round

Table "

Linus walks to living room and asks Lucy: What are you watching?

Lucy: " Monster Madness "

Linus: I don't suppose you'd care to watch " Doctors' Round Table " ?

Lucy: No, I wouldn't!

Linus: They have a very good panel today ... a physician, a philosopher, a

theologician and a dentist ... They're discussing " Where Cain got his wife

and the importance of the pre-school checkup "

Lucy: Well you might as well forget it because I'm watching " Monster

Madness "

Linus: I'll go over to Charlie Brown's house ... maybe he'll let me watch my

program over there

Charlie: Hi, Linus ... come on in ... you just missed " Doctors' Round Table "

It was pretty good ... the philosopher and the theologician agreed that a

pre-school check-up is a very wise action

Linus walks back home.

Lucy: Where have you been? You missed a really good program ... The

physician and the dentist got into a big fight over where Cain got his wife!

and:

Lucy: Why do you think we are put here on earth, Charlie Brown?

CB: To make others happy

Lucy: I don't think I am making anyone very happy ... of course, nobody's

making me very happy either ... Somebody is NOT DOING HIS JOB!

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