In the first essay I spoke about how mental health in men is often not given enough attention and especially by how men are taught to deal with emotions that keeps them from healing and/or seeking help. In this research essay I want to ask myself, why does our generation today have so many issues regarding their mental health? There are many factors that play into this. The younger generation “gen z” faces a lot of problems when it comes to mental health now with the greater use of social media, more importance in your social image, and how you wish to be viewed, perceived, and accepted. I came up with this question because of how many people I see today who are around my age range that all either have trauma that made them develop a mental health problems or even mental illnesses or social media that has given people insecurities about themselves and so much more, I relate to some of those things as well. It intrigues me because I think many people are aware of it but choose to ignore it. By Friday I want to have all of my sources and my model essay all figured out. I also want to read carefully through my sources and collect whatever data I can when it comes to the statistics of my topic. I have not completely decided on a model essay though I am leaning towards this one

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/

It covers the effects that social media has on children and teenagers mental health. It starts off with the story of a little girl who was bullied into suicide and I think the paper is really interested and informative.

So far my scholarly sources include

https://t.co/5jPMJMhzIx?amp=1

https://t.co/iyp0vWdgMh?amp=1

https://t.co/I6ZUttwk6M?amp=1

https://t.co/sOAxHjD989?amp=1

These are all subject to change but for now they all cover or relate to my topic in a way that I think would be useful in my paper.

Possible media sources include

https://t.co/Py9ZoiQaGw?amp=1

https://t.co/UCLYfFV3qm?amp=1

These also relate to my topic heavily and after reading through them both a bit I think they’d be very useful to me in providing good data and research to my paper.