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Tyer 1Drew Tyer Jennifer McCuneENGL 131224 February 2005No Work and No Play Makes Jane a Dull daughterJane in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper was touched as well-nigh say long before she was prescribed, and administered the rest bring round by her hubby for her then unknown 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 child and is experiencing what we know at present 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 cured by a treatment called the rest cure popularized by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. This remedy consisted in the main 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 u sed to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror verboten of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.(Gilman 593). This sort of behaviour is more than just your average childs rampant mood. This is truly the sound of nearlyone who is delusional and needs some form of psychological counseling. This overly active quasi delusional behavior followed Jane to adulthood, and was noticed but dismissed as pure silliness by her husband even before the baby came about, ... he says that Tyer 2 with my imaginative power and habit of story-making, a nervous weakness like tap is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies...(Gilman 592) Anytime Jane acted a trivial 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 become diaphanous over the next three months. The demons in her mind first began to access her psyche about ... ...traits of a amiablel y unstable individual. 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 throw it into complete and total disarray. Tyer 5 Works CitedGilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Literature An gate to Reading And Writing. 7th ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall. 2004. 590-600.