Yellow Wallpaper

While reading the "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I had heard before about depression during and after pregnancy and found the issue very interesting. The narrator in the story is described having some sort of "nervous" disorder and is kept locked in a room to have time to rest and think. In her times, the symptom Postpartum Depression was undiscovered and researched at the time, so this disease could be viewed upon as a crrazzy person.
Postpartum depression isn't a character flaw or a weakness. The birth of a baby can trigger a jumble of powerful emotions, from excitement and joy to fear and anxiety... and especially depression. After having a baby, a mom's hormones are all mixed up and can cause the mother to feel very unusual. These baby blues a mother experiences can be helped with treatment, TLC, and can be accomplished overtime. The actress and former Calvin Klein model Brook Shields expressed her views on how she experiences these issues and explained her situation by saying, "I really didn't want to live anymore," she admits frankly. She says that, during this time, simply seeing a window was enough to prompt her to think, "'I just want to leap out of my life, but then the rational side of me [would say], 'You're only on the fourth floor. You'll get broken to bits and then you will be even worse.'"
This famous actress had a successful career, happy family... and brand new beautiful child in her life. This shows that this issue can be possible with anyone. She admits that she was perfectly fine before but once she had her baby she had been hit with a mixture of jumbled emotions. "Without therapy, I wouldn't have understood as much, and I think that without medicine, I would not have been clear enough," Shields says.
The narrator in the "Yellow Wallpaper" was never given therapy but placed into room that was almost like a prison. This unhealthy treatment could greatly affect the issues she had and even make them worse. Locked in a room and depressed.. can make you even more insane.