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The Yellow Wallpaper
What would you do if your wife or your relative had postpartum depression after giving birth to her child? Would you try to help her by talking to her, or by taking her to a psychologist, or would you lock her in a house where she has no one to talk to and doesn’t get any professional help? Postpartum depression is a type of depression that occurs within three months following childbirth and symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, marked illogical thought, thinking of suicide, and fear of hurting the baby (“Dictionary of Psychology” 551). Recent research shows that postpartum depression affects 10 percent of women in the months following the birth of a child (Depression Statistics: Women Fact Information).
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, –who’s also been through postpartum depression- (Gilman 366), is a fictional story about a woman, who actually has postpartum depression but, unfortunately, is misdiagnosed by her......

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