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An 8 page paper which compares and contrasts the specific illnesses and symptoms experienced by these young mothers, the impact on these women and others, offers historical perspective, and provides a complete DSM-IV five-axes diagnosis of Margery Kempe. No additional sources are used.
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leads readers on a dark journey that the psychiatric community has only recently begun shedding light on. In two of the essays, she reveals how postpartum depression is hardly
a recent phenomenon. It is a condition new mothers have experienced after giving birth for centuries, but was misunderstood due to insufficient medical information and sheer social ignorance.
Although Margery Kempe and Charlotte Perkins Gilman lived nearly a half-century apart, their illnesses and the way they were ostracized and isolated from the rest of society as a result
were remarkably similar. The impact upon themselves, their families, and others, were devastating, and because of the times in which they lived they were treated as pariahs instead of
receiving the medical treatment that might have allowed them to recover and make positive contributions to their respective societies. Margery Kempe (c. 1373-1438) was a prominent member of the English
community. Her father was mayor of her village and her husband John was a well-to-do merchant. After a difficult pregnancy and fearful her newborn child would not live,
Margery became consumed by fears she had long suppressed. Being devoutly religious, she sought out her confessor to unburden her conscience. Margery acknowledged she was haunted by images
of the Devil in her mind, and that whenever she became ill or anxious, as she was frequently during her pregnancy, the devil would implant suggestions in her mind that
"she should be damned" (Shannonhouse 4). Perhaps unsettled by Margerys peculiar behavior, instead of allowing her to unburden herself and share her pain, he instead strongly admonished her.
Afraid of her confessors disapproval, Margery stopped short of making her revelation and sunk deeper into depression despite the babys health improvement. For the next several months, the text describes
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