My initial plan started as a plan to learn to code in the process of making the app, but then after a few days, I realised it was too challenging for me to learn coding with everything else I have to do in school for MYP5, also another reason I found this too challenge was that I have never had any experience with coding, though I saw my dad do it for his software development job, I have never really learned it, not even the basics, so as I kept investigating in my investigation phase, I realised almost at the end of this phase that it was too challenging and I started losing motivation and interest, also because I had other important things in MYP5. So I went with something easier, which was to learn about mental health and what can help people and how it impacts the person with poor mental health in a short term and the long-term.

 

If you noticed here, I did not change the idea of my product which is an app, but I changed my goal of making this product because even when I made changes in the decision, I still wanted to make the app to help people with poor mental health, but I just did not want to learn to code, rather I wanted to learn the impact of depressions and what elements in your daily life will help me (and other people) cope with mental health.

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And the global context I chose for this is "Identities and relationships" because I made this product to help my own self and other people. After all, I have been going through depression for the last 2 years, and I think that maybe if I have not been going through this, I would have made a totally different product. And even though I have been going to depression, anxiety and stress for the last years, and intensely in the last year, I sometimes or most of the times did not really understand why I was behaving the way I was when I was in a poor state of mental health, such as I would often isolate myself, self-harm, having suicidal thoughts, often my parents would be angry with me, which made the relationship with my parents a little distant and I was getting poor results, etc, there are a lot of things that happened to me due to depression, and there were also some other days where I was happy, but most of the times, I was sad, and these changes in my mood and the way I would behave made me confused if I was really depressed or not. And I never knew how to actually cope with this, and whom I should trust and talk to. So I was really trying to figure myself out about my mental health, and who I really was, because having poor mental health is not easy, it makes it extremely hard for the person to decide their daily life, even if it is as simple as choosing between 3 outfits, you may feel insecure sometimes. So, therefore, with all this justification, it proves that "identities and relationships" is the right global context.  

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During investigation phase, I did some research, and resources I used to make this final product, are websites, statistics in the world  to the rate of depression and mental illnesses, and researches that have been done in the past by by doctors, and psychologists, since I collected the information from other sources as second hand, these are called secondary sources, and primary sources, such as researches done by myself are the following: I did a survey with a couple of my family members like my cousin, who has also been going through similar problem like me, and another one is that I recorded my own behaviour and mood as a journal, to suggest the best exercises, and activities inside my app which actually helps people,these two are the only primary resource I used.