Tuesday, May 17.  

Today I studied the results of my survey, "Stress Relieving Activities" while meeting with my mother to better understand outlets for our youth and why they chose what they chose.  The results were as follows, the most chosen was listening to music in a close race with spending alone time.  These results shocked me.  Although I believe that music is a good stress reliever, with all the intense physical options I was surprised something so simple was picked.  I completely did not understand the alone time option.  Personally, when I am feeling at my worst, I depend on those closest to me to help lift me up, which I now see is not the case for everyone.  After meeting with my mom to discuss the survey and different strategies, she then explained to me the importance of convenience.  Music and being alone are always available and can always be depended on when other activities such as mountain biking are much more time-consuming and effort-driven when certain kids' motivation when not 100% can be very low.  Although personally, I need to continue to be social to feel any kind of improvement in my mood, I now understand that everyone deals with things differently, which is what makes this project so interesting.  I look forward to continuing my journey and continuing to learn about the brain and how we operate.

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