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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back at the beginning of the quarter when I was starting to brainstorm what I should choose as a topic for my research paper, I wanted to choose a topic that meant something to me. Rather than just choosing something random to focus on for 3 months, I wanted to choose something that I could actually relate to and would be devoted to for the whole quarter. As most of you know, I ultimately chose to focus my research on mental health of college students however, you probably do not know why.<\/p>\n
During my sophomore and junior years of high school, I struggled with depression. I was in a very dark place in my life and I was trying to hide and avoid the fact that I was suffering from a mental illness. After two long years of trying to fight it, with help from my family and friends, I was finally able to overcome this dark time in my life.<\/p>\n
However, a few months after starting college this year, I felt the depression creeping back up on me. Once again, I tried to avoid it and pretend like I was fine, but the truth was, I needed help more than I ever did before. After about 6 months of the depression getting worse and worse, I finally got the courage to receive professional help. While I am still struggling, I am getting better each day and to my surprise, this research paper actually helped me to get through it.<\/p>\n
My own personal experience inspired me to choose this topic for my research. It was so important to me to choose this because I knew that I wasn’t the only college student who has struggled with mental health issues. I really wanted to research more about this and find out why this is happening to not only myself, but so many other college students throughout the world. I wanted to find out how to stop this issue from affecting more students. The most important thing I wanted to accomplish was to educate myself through this research so that I could better understand the issue and use my knowledge to help others in advocating mental health on college campuses.<\/p>\n
I know that through this research I am not going to make the problem go away, but I hope that it will give me the chance to educate, in the very least, one person on how important this issue is. Even if I only get through to a few people, I hope to make a difference in at least one student’s life so that they can prevent themselves from ever having to struggle with a mental health illness.<\/p>\n
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Back at the beginning of the quarter when I was starting to brainstorm what I should choose as a topic for my research paper, I wanted to choose a topic that meant something to me. Rather than just choosing something … Continue reading