Is unusual, unusual behavior actually normal behavior? This is actually an important question to ask when it comes to postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is an illness like heart disease. Anyone can get this illness, it doesn't matter how smart, successful or religious you are. An example of people who may get this disease, but not limited to are women who've given birth. They may experience loss of interest, feeling irritable, feeling restless, hard time falling asleep or staying awake. Not to mention there are factors that can lead up to getting this illness such as childhood trauma, being a teen mother, traumatic childbirth, a previous miscarriage, anxiety with family members, or even problems with your thyroids. In "The
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Gilman might have suffered early childhood trauma if she thought walls were better than toys. "When a child grows up afraid or under constant or extreme stress, the immune system and body's stress response systems may not develop normally. Later on, when the child or adult is exposed to even ordinary levels of stress, these systems may automatically respond as if the individual is under extreme stress" (NCTSN). It's possible that the stress Gilman went through has carried over into adulthood, and have worsened. Children with complex trauma history have relationship difficulties and with authority figures. The narrator becomes less mindful of herself as well as obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. She notices, "This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then" (Gilman 308). She notices every detail of the wallpaper now. As her mind wanders the less happy she is. At the same token, it's almost like she's looking for answers from the wallpaper; in hopes of finding a cure for her sickness. The wallpaper seems ambiguous to her; she doesn't know if it's helping her or making her feel …show more content…
Her husband, as well as the yellow wallpaper, have left her in this room where she begins to go crazy. All she wants is for John to help her. John thinks doing nothing will solve her problem because nothing is wrong with her. When in fact doing, nothing is actually doing something. There's no escaping choice when deciding to do nothing. John tells the narrator that she is "his darling and comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well. He says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me" (Gilman 310). John tells his wife that she's causing herself to feel this way and she must use her will to get her through. He also includes that she should get better for him because she is all he has. He wants her to get back to her womanly duties for his sake if not for her own. They both live in an era where domestic ideology is immense, particularly the place of the woman. Women are supposed to be the center of the home, the base for moral goodness. John doesn't know how to nurture his wife and give her the attention she needs. Johns moral judgment in this era is atrocious. Men didn't see women as equals or thought they had rights so they didn't take any consideration into women's mental health
Gilman might have suffered early childhood trauma if she thought walls were better than toys. "When a child grows up afraid or under constant or extreme stress, the immune system and body's stress response systems may not develop normally. Later on, when the child or adult is exposed to even ordinary levels of stress, these systems may automatically respond as if the individual is under extreme stress" (NCTSN). It's possible that the stress Gilman went through has carried over into adulthood, and have worsened. Children with complex trauma history have relationship difficulties and with authority figures. The narrator becomes less mindful of herself as well as obsessed with the yellow wallpaper. She notices, "This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then" (Gilman 308). She notices every detail of the wallpaper now. As her mind wanders the less happy she is. At the same token, it's almost like she's looking for answers from the wallpaper; in hopes of finding a cure for her sickness. The wallpaper seems ambiguous to her; she doesn't know if it's helping her or making her feel …show more content…
Her husband, as well as the yellow wallpaper, have left her in this room where she begins to go crazy. All she wants is for John to help her. John thinks doing nothing will solve her problem because nothing is wrong with her. When in fact doing, nothing is actually doing something. There's no escaping choice when deciding to do nothing. John tells the narrator that she is "his darling and comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well. He says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me" (Gilman 310). John tells his wife that she's causing herself to feel this way and she must use her will to get her through. He also includes that she should get better for him because she is all he has. He wants her to get back to her womanly duties for his sake if not for her own. They both live in an era where domestic ideology is immense, particularly the place of the woman. Women are supposed to be the center of the home, the base for moral goodness. John doesn't know how to nurture his wife and give her the attention she needs. Johns moral judgment in this era is atrocious. Men didn't see women as equals or thought they had rights so they didn't take any consideration into women's mental health