It's insane to me that they would rather deal with difficult topics by ignoring them all together. It really shows men's ignorance during this time. They refused to believe a woman could have mental health issues without automatically just being crazy.

The specialist in nervous diseases gave her directions which proved to be useless after months. It even began to make things HARDER for her mental health, not EASIER. This shows how little the specialists, even the best known in the country, really knew about mental health and wellness.

He did not even care to check the mental aspect. She went to him with her problems, having hope, and he assumed she was fine because her physical aspect was healthy. This goes to show that they did not really focus on or believe in mental issues, and if you did have them they were quick to label you as "crazy". He ignored her mental health, and told her to just lower her intellectual life and increase her domestic life. It's almost as if he told her that she just needed to behave the way women are expected to. Her being intellectual (and not as domesticated) was seemingly intimidating to men in those day, and they tried to suppress her abilities and skill in writing by telling her to do the basic womens' tasks and "never ... touch pen, brush, or pencil again."