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In the 19th century, women's mental health was a topic not talked much about due to gender roles not letting women have an opinion. For example, in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" the narrator suffered from post-partum depression. In the story, the husband trapped her beyond the walls of a yellow wallpaper because her family members came to believe she was crazy, rather than recognizing her mental illness. Until the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, this was common.

Pamela M. Diamond, a criminal justice major that graduated from Sam Houston and Eugene W.Wang, department of neuropsychiatry and behavioral science graduated from Texas Tech, both wrote articles that ca easily be related to "The Yellow Wallpaper." They converted the percentages of intake of prisoners to the percentages to mental illnesses diagnosed in a prison and they have rapidly increased. Describing her mental illness severely increasing throughout the article; you could imagine that sitting in a prison cell would increase the amount of mental illnesses throughout prisons.

Sources used:

Diamond, P.; Wang, E.; Holzer, C.; Thomas, C. & Cruser, A. (September 2001). “The Prevalence of Mental Illness in Prison.” Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Accessed April 1, 2019.