The reason I chose mental health as one of my top inquiries has many different reasons behind it. I believe that although people are “bringing awareness” to it, there still isn’t enough being done for the people who struggle with the effects of it. In my age group alone, I know countless people who struggle with all sorts of mental health issues whether it be the more “common” ones like anxiety, depression, or even BDD and BPD. I think that if I were to create some sort of an outlet to bring awareness to these things and give resources for help and ways to try and help yourself in the process, it could benefit a lot of the people around me that may be struggling and are scared to reach out.
My main goal if I were to focus on this inquiry would be to build awareness by creating a website for students similar to me who might be struggling with the effects of mental health. By doing this it would allow anyone to have access to the information they need to try and help themselves and will also have the resources for them to seek further help if that's what’s necessary. What I mean by this is having practices and exercises that have “proven” to help reduce anxiety, or help calm anger, etc all split up into different sections based on the “type of mental health” and if those aren’t what they are looking for, have the links and phone numbers for more serious help.
I believe that the topic of mental health falls under the mindful learner and the effective communicator competencies. When trying to portray these competencies I think that both of them don’t need much of an explanation as to how they are going to be found on the website. Bringing awareness and letting people know that it's okay to not be okay is something that I think needs to be normalized and I hope to do that in my project while displaying the competencies.
In order to complete this project I don’t think that interviews are 100% necessary and although it would be nice to talk to a professional, I’m going to focus mainly on finding reliable information that can help me get a better understanding of the different topics and hopefully help others. If I am going to reach out to a professional I might try to set up some sort of a zoom meeting with them but as of right now that isn’t my main focus.
One thing that I would be looking to do in my project is create a log/documentation of me doing yoga and meditation for 30 days. I’ve never done anything like this before so I think that doing it will create an unbiased opinion on whether or not it works for my website. Creating deadlines for this is easy because it's just 30 days in a row. For other deadlines, I hope to have a different subtopic of mental health covered each week with its own page on the website. I’m not sure how many different topics of mental health I want to go into because I haven’t started research yet but I think about a week for each of them will work.
Finally the way I think I would like to share my project is through social media. I believe that most people our age use social media almost everyday and if they are going to find information on new things and what to look at, it is going to be on a platform such as Instagram. For showing my website updates I was thinking of having a section on my homepage that says something like “website last update on _______” so whoever is viewing can know if there is going to be more information since they last looked at my website or not.
My main goal if I were to focus on this inquiry would be to build awareness by creating a website for students similar to me who might be struggling with the effects of mental health. By doing this it would allow anyone to have access to the information they need to try and help themselves and will also have the resources for them to seek further help if that's what’s necessary. What I mean by this is having practices and exercises that have “proven” to help reduce anxiety, or help calm anger, etc all split up into different sections based on the “type of mental health” and if those aren’t what they are looking for, have the links and phone numbers for more serious help.
I believe that the topic of mental health falls under the mindful learner and the effective communicator competencies. When trying to portray these competencies I think that both of them don’t need much of an explanation as to how they are going to be found on the website. Bringing awareness and letting people know that it's okay to not be okay is something that I think needs to be normalized and I hope to do that in my project while displaying the competencies.
In order to complete this project I don’t think that interviews are 100% necessary and although it would be nice to talk to a professional, I’m going to focus mainly on finding reliable information that can help me get a better understanding of the different topics and hopefully help others. If I am going to reach out to a professional I might try to set up some sort of a zoom meeting with them but as of right now that isn’t my main focus.
One thing that I would be looking to do in my project is create a log/documentation of me doing yoga and meditation for 30 days. I’ve never done anything like this before so I think that doing it will create an unbiased opinion on whether or not it works for my website. Creating deadlines for this is easy because it's just 30 days in a row. For other deadlines, I hope to have a different subtopic of mental health covered each week with its own page on the website. I’m not sure how many different topics of mental health I want to go into because I haven’t started research yet but I think about a week for each of them will work.
Finally the way I think I would like to share my project is through social media. I believe that most people our age use social media almost everyday and if they are going to find information on new things and what to look at, it is going to be on a platform such as Instagram. For showing my website updates I was thinking of having a section on my homepage that says something like “website last update on _______” so whoever is viewing can know if there is going to be more information since they last looked at my website or not.