Mental Illness In The Yellow Wallpaper And The Tell-Tale Heart

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To Sherlock As everyone know one certain thing in this world is crazy people. Most of these people are mistakenly judged and are actually suffering from a number of mental illnesses. Mental illness is defined as ("a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, or mood"). (NAMI) In the stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", the main characters show many characteristics of mental illnesses. Charlotte Perkins Gillman suffered from depression, and Edgar Allen Poe is believed to have suffered from bi-polar and/or schizophrenia. Charlotte Perkins Gillman was diagnosed and treated for her mental illness. Her illness today would be considered more like post partum depression. The definition is postpartum depression is "Postpartum …show more content…
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a story about women who suffers from depression, who eventually commits suicide. Suicide is defined as (“ the act or an instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily or intentionally “). (Meriam) Her husband is a doctor who treats her as if she is fragile. He keeps her away from people, as if she is contagious. His sister treats the main character as if she does not exist, or as if she chooses to suffer with this illness. The main character is a writer, but is denied being able to write down anything pertaining to her thoughts. She started having a number of delusions, an example of these would be the women she believes that lives in the yellow wallpaper. Delusions are defined as ("a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary"). (Merriam) Depression is defined as (" a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration"). (Merriam) The main character did, in the beginning, see a doctor who ordered bed rest, but her disorder would have probably been treated better with medication, and therapy. Some people think and believe that if she would have been able to write in her journal, then she may not have become
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