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Charlotte Perkins Gilman\u2019s famous 1892 short story \u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper\u201d offers a poignant example of this through its fictional narrator, a diarist many interpret to be suffering from postpartum depression. The fiction here does not stray far from reality: Gilman orchestrated her diarist\u2019s experience to mirror her own, as both real author and fictional character suffocated from a melancholy only made worse by their physicians\u2019 insistence on following the \u201cRest Cure.\u201d While this instruction to cease all work and activity was a prevalent depression treatment at the time, Gilman, through \u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper,\u201d reveals how the intervention ultimately harmed more than helped because it overlooked her\u2014and, by extension, her fictional diarist\u2019s\u2014 unique needs and identities. 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