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A Downward Spiral In the late nineteenth century, there was not a lot of information known about mental illness. Treatments prescribed to the mentally ill at that time were often bizarre, and cause the patients more harm than good. Suffering from a nervous breakdown after the birth of her daughter, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is all to familiar with the treatment at the time; isolation, and total rest. Drawing upon experiences from a month long stay at an asylum run by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Perkins felt compelled to write a short story, about a woman fighting her own battle with mental illness and the treatment prescribed to help her. In the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's illness goes through three distinct stages. The first distinct stage of the narrator's illness is mild depression. She seems to be exhibiting the symptoms of the baby blues, also known as post-partum depression. The...

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