10 Beloved Disney Characters Who Had Serious Mental Health Issues

9. Captain Hook - Peter Pan

Disorder: Post-traumatic stress disorder. Poor Captain Hook; most of his issues can stem back to the horrific incident that occurred where Peter Pan chopped off his hand and fed it to a crocodile. In fact, given those tragic events, is it any wonder that he continues to lash out at Peter and his own crew in a desperate effort to maintain some measure of control? What's even worse is that this crocodile continues to hunt poor Hook. With the alarm clock in its belly, its presence is always accompanied by a tick-toking, sending the captain into blind panic. It's a perpetual state of terror, fuelling his PTSD as he relieves that terrible event. It isn't just the crocodile that causes him to break; any ticking clock will inflict the trauma. It's this disorder that prevents him from breaking the vicious cycle he has found himself in; hunting Peter Pan, desperate to exact revenge. He should be doing what any good pirate captain would do and set sail across the sea in search of plunder. His trauma reaches breaking point at the end of Peter Pan, where he loses his boat and is chased by the vicious crocodile across the sea. Listen to those screams €“ this is a man hunted to breaking point.