Write a summary of the following excerpt from “Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman.
For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia--and beyond
During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in
nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise man put me to bed and applied the rest cure, to which
a still-good physique responded so promptly that he concluded there was nothing much the matter with me, and
sent me home with solemn advice to "live as domestic a life as far as possible," to "have but two hours' intellectual
life a day," and "never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again" as long as I lived. This was in 1887

Answer:

Gilman felt very melancholy and was having a severe nervous breakdown. This mental state was maintained for three years, which made her look for a specialist in nervous diseases, who would examine her and help her to heal. The specialist stated that she did not have any serious illness, but that she needed to rest as long as she lived to be cured.

Explanation:

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