It is known that doctors should not treat their own family members. Physicians are now being taught that they should have a doctor-patient relationship so they can be professional. There are many doctors who treat their family thinking that they are protecting them, but instead they sometimes harm them more than actually helping them. Being treated by a family member can tear a family apart and can cause many problems to arise. The need of wanting to make them feel better can cause malpractices, and a doctor can lose their medical license for not treating the patient right. As a doctor, treating a family can be overwhelming. Nobody likes to see their loved ones suffer and there can be an impotence of wanting to see and make them feel better. Her diary, how she was locked away, and her hallucinations developed the theme of her freedom being restricted in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Jane’s diary helps her write away the freedom that she is being restricted from. She is locked in a room by her husband, John, who is also her physician. He decides to make a decision as her husband and physician. Such decision is in his best interests to cure her “temporary nervous depression” with rest cure, isolating her with no contact with anyone but him. She keeps a diary hidden from John because she is "absolutely forbidden to 'work '" (Esposito). In the diary, there are entries describing how she was being treated as a prisoner (Gilman 526). Her diary helps see