Proposal: The topic that I have chosen to write about for my I-Search paper is the percentage of inmates with mental disorders and how their diets have played a role in their mental status. I have chosen to write about this because I'm combining to issues that are very closely related to me. I have many people in my family and know of many people who have, at some point in their lives been incarcerated. I am in no way saying that they didn't deserve to be incarcerated. They did the crime, which means that they have to do time. What I can not comprehend is the fact that the overwhelming majority of individuals who are not getting the help that they need because they are busy filling the cells for those actual criminals. They are more of a danger to themselves than to others, which is why the prison suicide rate is so astronomically high. The intent doesn't matter as long as the actions that got that person locked up is substantiated with proof. The other issue intertwined with my topic is the diet of the said individuals. Upon thought, one would believe that it is common sense that the body (or in this case the brain) can not function to its utmost capacity without the proper nutrients and minerals that it needs. Yet this side of person's physical physiology that many health professions rarely, if ever, take into account. Poverty and malnourishment go hand-and-hand. You can almost not found one without the other. My research supported my claim fully. Many of the mentally disturbed came from humble beginnings to say least and I do not believe this to be a coincidence. My main method of information gathering was the internet.
Process: Much appreciation must be credited to the internet for conception of my essay. When I first tried to amass information, I wanted to use the library as my main source of data. Unfortunately to my dismay, my topic(s) had an abundance of stuff (the books that is) that made it difficult to concentrate my essay. It become too tedious so I changed my strategy and decided to strictly get info from the internet, or from word of mouth from people who have been through what I am talking about in the paper. One thing that I found useful for refining what I'm looking for through the many articles and links on the internet, I made care to be very specific about what I needed. I used key phases such as, "foods that cause mental illness", " "Percentage of inmates that suffer from mental illness", and lastly, "dispelling poverty myths".
Rao, Sathyanarayana, T.S., "Understanding nutrition, depression and mental illnesses"
Process: Much appreciation must be credited to the internet for conception of my essay. When I first tried to amass information, I wanted to use the library as my main source of data. Unfortunately to my dismay, my topic(s) had an abundance of stuff (the books that is) that made it difficult to concentrate my essay. It become too tedious so I changed my strategy and decided to strictly get info from the internet, or from word of mouth from people who have been through what I am talking about in the paper. One thing that I found useful for refining what I'm looking for through the many articles and links on the internet, I made care to be very specific about what I needed. I used key phases such as, "foods that cause mental illness", " "Percentage of inmates that suffer from mental illness", and lastly, "dispelling poverty myths".
Rao, Sathyanarayana, T.S., "Understanding nutrition, depression and mental illnesses"