Invisible perspective

While reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" it came to my attention that point of view and perspective is everything. The woman was clearly insane, but her husband didn't see it. He thinks he knows how to help her, but he just doesn't. He thinks he can fix her, but he can't.

That's the funny thing about mental illness, is that no one will ever know how you truly feel; how you're truly doing. Medical problems exist in x-rays and charts and IVs. But mental problems are invisible and show no trace and don't exist unless you tell someone.

You can think you know everything about a person, because you two are really good friends or you always said "No secrets". But it's just not a reality. And that's why point of view is so important, because from yours, they seem like they're doing fine. Everything seems normal and happy. And then they show you something that contradicts your thinking and suddenly you know everything's wrong and not right.

So we must value point of view. We must take it and cherish it and learn from it, so that we may help others, and not just help them in the ways we think need, but in the ways they show us they need.