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S&R Reflection

Suhaila Islam

Professor Von Uhl

FIQWS HA9

29/9/2021

 

                                 Reflecting upon “The Struggles That Come With An Invisible Illness”

        This essay was written with the sole purpose of informing readers about the struggles millions of women face because doctors in the past viewed hysteric patients as individuals who embellish their illnesses rather than human beings who are in dire need of medical treatment. Doctors who misunderstand what hysteria, in reality, is and how to accurately treat the psychological illness without having a predisposed prejudice against females is the exigence within my writing.  This piece is a non-fiction informative essay that includes informative, fiction, and non-fiction writing pieces such as Sigmund  Freud’s Lecture One, The Yellow Wallpaper, and “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman cited within the paper to further elaborate on the issue at hand; women who are forced to battle hardships in silence because of the stigma that comes with their illness. This is clear to readers when the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper mentions that her husband John “says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fantasies run away with me.”(Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper 6)

        My essay expresses the context of understanding the behavior that many doctors have towards patients who are diagnosed with hysteria. It targets my college English professors Elisabeth Von Uhl and Alyssa Yankwitt, and my classmates that peer-reviewed my writing during the drafting phases. The revisions that I received from my peers made me question my writing in terms of effectiveness, cohesiveness, and rhetorical sensibility by showing me what I can improve on and what I can exclude throughout the essay. Before this assignment, I have never gone through so many drafts and revisions, so it is refreshing to know that I am capable of developing my writing skills in only three weeks. 

                                                               Works Cited Page

Freud, Sigmund. Five Lectures On Psycho-Analysis. The Standard, W. W. Norton & Company, 1910.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. The Standard, The New England Magazine, 1892.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. The Standard, The Forerunner, 1913