A woman trapped inside herself "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1899. The story is used to show many people a mental illness treatment that deals with depression in women after giving birth. It is a very common disease but, due to new technologies, it is treated very differently in today's medical field. Illness is now treated with medicine, but when medical fields lacked technology, illness was treated in a way that many people would say was also mentally ill. The treatment was offered to the author of this story and she explains her opinion by publishing “The Yellow Wallpaper” telling the story from the point of view of the narrator, who is a woman trapped inside herself due to the treatment. This short story had an impact on the history of medicine because the result she believed would result from the treatment was not a result that many doctors would want to see. Women during the nineteenth century were not what they are today in society. Most were looked down upon and not taken seriously. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator is a woman who the audience considers crazy because of the way she acts. DepressionHe had “suffered from profound melancholic depression since the birth of his daughter three years earlier” (Martin). Her neurologist, Weir Mitchell, told her it would be best to “never touch pen, brush or pencil again” (Martin). Gilman was a devoted writer at the time and instead wrote and published the story in New England Magazine. The story clearly showed what he believed the rest cure would do to someone if they were confined to themselves. Taking the pen out of her hand would have been like locking her in the room with the yellow wallpaper. It's a very non-traditional way of writing for the time it was written in, and that makes it that too