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Tyer 1Drew Tyer Jennifer McCuneENGL 131224 February 2005No Work and No Play Makes Jane a Dull GirlJane in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The yellowness Wallpaper was touched as some say long before she was prescribed, and administered the rest redress by her husband for her then unk todayn ailment now called postpartum depression. The boredom and isolation of this cure only allowed her mind to venture farther down a dark and winding corridor of insanity. Jane has recently had a kidskin and is experiencing what we know today as postpartum depression. Back in the 1800s doctors had no understanding of these symptoms, so they chalked it all up to a temporary nervous depression. This was recovered(p) by a treatment called the rest cure popularized by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. This remedy consisted mainly of isolation and bed rest. We now know that this does nothing to promote a healthy mind or body. But, at the time this was the best-known cure. As a child Jane had hallucinations, I used to l ie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.(Gilman 593). This sort of carriage is more than just your average childs rampant imagination. This is truly the sound of someone who is delusional and needs some form of psychological counseling. This too active quasi delusional behavior followed Jane to adulthood, and was noticed but dismissed as pure silliness by her husband even before the screw up came about, ... he says that Tyer 2 with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of insane fancies...(Gilman 592) Anytime Jane acted a little bit weird he would just say it was her hyperactive imagination at work again. Little did he know the depths of her problems that were to rifle evident over the next three months. The demons in her mind first began to attack her psyche about ... ...traits of a mentally unstable individ ual. The rest cure coupled with the postpartum depression Tyer 4 she was experiencing merely accelerated the mental flaws she had, and brought about the inevitable. The cure had taken an already frangible mind and thrown it into ace and total disarray. Tyer 5 Works CitedGilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Literature An Introduction to Reading And Writing. 7th ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall. 2004. 590-600.