Mental Illness In The Yellow Wallpaper

Mental illness, also called mental health disorder, alludes to a condition that affects your mood, thinking, and behavior. Specific symptoms of mental health disorders, for example, are depression, social withdrawal, and extreme feelings of fear. In the Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator's mental illness is called nervous exhaustion, which is when someone is stressed for too long. In the story, The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator's husband did not listen to the narrator when she said she was sick and was not getting better. In addition, the narrator's state of mind was deteriorating. Also, the narrator never spoke out, making it hard to get help. Mental illness should be taken more seriously and should be spoken out more.

One reason mental illness

The narrator's mental capacity was stagnating from the beginning of the story to the end and people in the story thought she was fine but really, she was going insane. One way her mind collapsed was when the Fourth of July was over, and she was getting attracted to the wallpaper. This story claims, “I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.” (pg. 461). In the story, the wallpaper symbolizes her sickness so if she's getting attracted to the wallpaper that means she's attached to her sickness which explains her mind is worsening. In addition, the narrator explains that the wallpaper has a “woman stooping down creep about behind that pattern.” (pg.463). This explains how she's starting to see something that is not physically there and that she is starting to imagine things. Also, the narrator states that the wallpaper is old foul yellow and has a peculiar odor (pg.465). This statement explains how she explains her mental capacity by inferring that her mind is rotten and that it's dying. The narrator shows us how she is feeling and that her intellect is decreasing and that she needs

According to The Yellow Wallpaper, it states, “No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live in this room long. There comes John, and I must put this away—he hates to have me write a word.” (pg. 459). The narrator is scared to speak up about the room even when the children say they hated that room and scared to even be writing when her husband comes near her. In addition, the only way she was able to speak out was when she was writing in her journal or dairy. However, if she had spoken out to someone else, she would probably have been able to get the necessity to get