When I first started my research project I wanted to do my project on the history of eating disorders and pregnancy. I tried to find research in Canada for two whole days but quickly found out that this was going to be a difficult topic to try and research. The issue was that eating disorders were most prominent in young people, and not those wanting to have children. I also wasn’t able to find much in Canada, although I was able to find multiple articles about African women and their pregnancies. Therefore I went to the library to look for an idea and when I started looking I found an abundance of books about mental illness in Canada and the deinstitutionalization of those with mental illness. This was the perfect topic as it hit very close to home and it was something I was very interested in so it made it easier to write an essay on.