At this point I am pretty certain on what I would like to do for my genius project. After going through and still getting out of a rough season I have discovered a demographic uneducated about the amount of adolescent self-harm and the true effects of it. Parents, who are arguably the most influential people in a child's life, often are not aware of the prevalence of self-harm in general and how to approach that situation. Though parents always have their children's best interest at heart, sometimes their aims to help their child not self-harm can make the situation drastically worse. Seeing as many friends as I have suffer through self-harm, eating disorders, depression, and anxiety has inspired me to do this. Also my experience with both anorexia and self-harm ended up creating rifts in my relationships with my parents, therefore, I know first hand how destructive mentally and physically it can be. In my case, what I was doing to myself hurt my parents more than it hurt me because at that point I stopped caring what effects it had on me and my general health. Thats when I thought of reaching out to parents instead of children who might be going through the same thing because, at least in my situation, my parents needed more support than I did. Therefore, I want to make a separate website from this with information on self-harm, eating disorders, and other common disorders adolescents struggle with. As well as hold a panel for parents about these topics with a professional and other high schoolers who have experienced these things.
My next steps is to find a mentor and professional in this field so I can start building the website. Then after that I want to go to the school board with my proposal to hold a panel to educate parents. My goal by sharing what I've gone through and the commonality of self-harm, I will have positively effected the community around me.
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Brianna RobisonA pretty normal teen going through high school Archives
September 2018
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