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Essay Archive - The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
Pregnancy and childbirth are very emotional times in a woman's life and many
women suffer from the "baby blues." The innocent nickname for postpartum
depression is deceptive because it down plays the severity of this condition.
Although she was not formally diagnosed with postpartum depression, Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) developed a severe depression after the birth of
her only child (Kennedy et. al. 424). Unfortunately, she was treated by Dr. S.
Weir Mitchell, who forbade her to write and prescribed only bed rest and quiet
for r....
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