“Yes, I’m Fine” describes a disconnection between a girl’s mental state and others’ efforts to catalyze and understand her recovery. Throughout the poem, the people surrounding her are stressing the importance of her healing more than she herself seems to be, such as in the verse, “Must heal, no room for gloom, no in between.” While sympathy is there, it is not treatment. Stebbins stresses the frustration of the girl in that everyone ignores her when she tries to tell them the way she feels is no one else’s fault and also no one else’s responsibility, or has the capability, to change or help her.