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Now, having had time to digest and grasp the story better, I think perhaps because crazy lady was not around stimulating people and she had nothing else to keep her thoughts occupied with, the wallpaper became the object of her stimulation as a creative person. It just had quite the negative effect. Early on, the narrator says that the wallpaper smears yellow onto whatever touches it and some of the wallpaper had already been torn when she was writing her first or second entry along with the gnawed bedstand (which I assume was her doing as well), but we find out that there were yellow smears at shoulder height, which seems to indicate that she was crazy early on and tore it off herself. If my analysis is true, our crazy lady has amnesia of the event and does not realize, and perhaps it is not clear, even to the reader at the time (such as myself), that she is already a little crazy. She might also have postpartem pyschosis because she had just had a child a few months before.
Does the analysis seem to be correct?