The narrator's entrapment inside of the room was also the last thing that she needed.
Postpartum is an expressionless mental sickness, the amount of mental weight on one's mind can essentially run one mad. The narrator in the "Yellow Wallpaper " just had a baby and "It is a type of clinical depression which can affect women after childbirth you feel irritated or angry you have no patience, everything annoys you " (WebMD). The narrator felt this same annoyance with her husband as she states "I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. " (Gilman). She was suffering from the many symptoms of Postpartum. She exhibits more of the symptoms of Postpartum throughout the story. The illness can changes women's hormones a great deal. "Most mothers who experience postpartum depression feel that they won't be good at mothering " (Stone). An example of this in the story is when the narrator is discussing what little she can do and says, "Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous " (Gilman). Something as overwhelming as this can take a negative effect on the mind. Over working the brain is typically sought out to be a tiring task. In the "Yellow wallpaper " the narrator said she "I did write in spite of them; but it DOES exhaust me a good deal " (Gilman). She used writing as a way to relieve some of the pressure pressed on ones nerves when afflicted with this emotional weight, but because she was not able to do it often the baggage accumulated. .
Furthermore, the narrator continues to exhibit more signs of postpartum depression because of her lack of sleep, which lead to her insomnia and eventually to her madness. Also, her inability to write due to her condition and her husband John who "hates to have her write a word " (Gilman) makes things crammed in her mind. Consequently, her lack of sleep, appetite and interest in anything else made her mind become overly obsessive.
