Charlotte Perkins Stetson addressed in a short response about “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “ Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” that she herself suffered from nervous breakdowns due to depression and sought to find medication and treatments. The physician 's response was “ there was nothing wrong with [Charlotte],[and sent her] home with [the advice of] “live as domestic life as far as possible”, to “have but two hours’ intellectual life a day” and “never to touch a pen, or pencil again [as long as she lived]” (page 1). After listening to these orders, not three months later, she began to “near the borderline mental ruin”, upon that point she threw away the doctors advice and continued to live a life of work,joy,growth and power and managed to avoid hysteria “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written to showcase how mentally draining and dangerous it is to have poorly inaccurate courses of treatments based on personal experience for doctors. The very reason why the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” suffered. As Paula A. Treichlers suggests “Challenging and subverting the expert prescription that forbids her to write, the journal evokes a sense of urgency and danger.” Treichler, Paula A.. “Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in "the Yellow Wallpaper"”. Tulsa Studies in Women 's Literature 3.1/2 (1984): 61–77. Web... The same response was given to the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” when her physician husband took her into isolation and slowly stripped away her
Charlotte Perkins Stetson addressed in a short response about “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “ Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” that she herself suffered from nervous breakdowns due to depression and sought to find medication and treatments. The physician 's response was “ there was nothing wrong with [Charlotte],[and sent her] home with [the advice of] “live as domestic life as far as possible”, to “have but two hours’ intellectual life a day” and “never to touch a pen, or pencil again [as long as she lived]” (page 1). After listening to these orders, not three months later, she began to “near the borderline mental ruin”, upon that point she threw away the doctors advice and continued to live a life of work,joy,growth and power and managed to avoid hysteria “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written to showcase how mentally draining and dangerous it is to have poorly inaccurate courses of treatments based on personal experience for doctors. The very reason why the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” suffered. As Paula A. Treichlers suggests “Challenging and subverting the expert prescription that forbids her to write, the journal evokes a sense of urgency and danger.” Treichler, Paula A.. “Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in "the Yellow Wallpaper"”. Tulsa Studies in Women 's Literature 3.1/2 (1984): 61–77. Web... The same response was given to the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” when her physician husband took her into isolation and slowly stripped away her