Original Work!

Over this week, I have been work day and night on my original work, and today I have finished it. I spent 21 hours and learned a lot throughout the project and even, in a way, bettered myself while working on the project. I did an MLA Essay of my original work, and it went over Light and Smell therapy and what that is and how it is used, and why it helps with anxiety attacks, depression, and stress. Over November, I had gotten the sad news that I had come down with Covid-19. This was by far the hardest sickness I've had to overcome, and it took me well over a month to get rid of it. During that time, not only did I start to notice that I was going through some mental health issues but as well as my family. I thought and laid awake for days feeling sad, and when I had lost my smell and taste, I had my first massive wave of anxiety and depression attacks. I would sit in my room, not able to talk or see anyone, and wonder what I could do to help my spirits. I couldn't go outside until I felt better and duke to the coldness. Hence, I decided to use my Original work to see if it would work on me; of course, the smell therapy didn't work the best due to my loss of smell, but the light therapy help in just a big way I could almost get out of bed and move around it was as if I was getting a boost of energy from the different colors and even helped me fall asleep better and fast and stay asleep throughout the night. This allowed Bauer 2 me to use this as my original work and even use my family as data to help me. This went on to using the month of November as my data and using my family as the tester. I would put each member of my family into a room and, for week one, only use light therapy and LED lights to see which colors meant what to them. And the next week would be for smell and using oils to see what each oil would remind them of and how it would affect their mood; for the next week, I decided to use both light and oils and matched them with my family's reaction to them before weeks. This leads me to the last week of November, where I decided to test how well it worked by stopping all tests and going the previous week without and would record the week's overall mood. I found that their spirits had gone down tremendously. This made me wonder if my theory of using both therapy options had worked! In my opinion, it had a considerable effect on my family and me. But the process was not easy. It was more challenging than not, especially with being sick and having another member of the family later become ill. Overall, this was a fantastic experience, and it helped me go through a hard time in my life and my family. It's crazy to think a person can be physically sick and have that affect one's mental health as well. One thing I will do differently with my future projects is differently used health testers, although using Covid-19 testers wasn't a wrong route to take and gave me some impressive results. But overall, this project changed my outlook on mental health and self-therapy how it would be essential to use self-therapy for those who need it; and I have added this into my daily route, and it has only done well for me.