Mental Health In The Story 'The Yellow Wall Paper'

In the Story The Yellow Wall Paper, we learn time changes medicine and practice and the knowledge we have today is much more different then back then. Mental health affects many people today in our society that would have been misdiagnosed in past history. A term such as nervous disorder is what the husband/doctor of the narrator uses to try to explain the reasoning behind her experiences with paranormal hallucinations. Many people believed in the past that the narrator was possessed by ghosts but really now we see her as being possessed b her own unhealthy mind. Now that time has changed the treatments that were used in the book have been transformed because we realize it’s going to create a much more terrible outcome. Because of these old treatments that forced the narrator to sleep in captivity makes her experience even poorer manic and depressive behaviours than she had before he so called “treatment”. It is not the ghost that is haunting

In the book the reader finds themselves realizing the narrators husband is very opinionated and superior in the relationship. As the narrator realizes she is being deteriorated she starts to hide her feelings from herself by reminding and speaking out of how she loves him. Doubting her love and life and having a baby can trigger more problems with sleeping and hormonal change. These small troubles can cause huge problems when involving the mind. When thinking moving will help it is actually a horrible idea because it is causing more change in her world. Since she does not like the change it makes her life even worse. The yellow wallpaper room her husband makes her sleep in drives the narrator ill because she does not understand it. The room makes her feel uneasy and makes her wonder why the room is different. Since the reader is not well she is forced by her disease to go crazy in the room she is pressured to be in to actually help her get