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- Postpartum Blues - A Very Serious Affliction
The central character in Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a woman who is sequestered to a top floor bedroom where she is forced to “rest” for days on end. The woman finally became mad after being suppressed, oppressed, and depressed on that bedroom. There is a contemporary theory which claims that the woman, who it is implied has recently given birth, is not mad. She is said to be suffering from the very real malaise of postpartum depression, or more commonly known as postpartum blues.
Women’s feelings or emotions have been discounted for centuries. Great medical pioneers like Hippocrates and Traturo of Salerno did not give much credit to the importance of women’s emotions. Even the great modern psychologist Freud, considered the emotions of women as a form of hysteria. However, modern science has finally acknowledged that postpartum blues are real and in some cases quite devastating.
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