Mental Health and Addiction; Ending the Stigma
Taylor Caldarino (she/her/hers), Low Entropy Volunteer Writer What is stigma? How is it harmful and how does it discourage people from receiving and accessing care and harm reduction in regard to addiction and mental health issues? What are the ways we, as a society, can erase the stigma around mental health and addiction? These […]
Mentorship and the Benefits of Seeking Help
Heidi Collie (she/her/hers), Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Believed to have originated from a character in the epic Greek poem The Odyssey, the term “mentor” is generally understood as an “advisor.” A quick Google search also surfaces the phrases models positive behavior, and builds trust as well as the terms: teacher; confidante; counsel; sponsor. The […]
The Benefits of Emotional Support Animals When Going Through Addiction and Mental Health Recovery
A Journey to Recovery
Cristina Crescenzo (she/her/hers), Low Entropy Volunteer Writer When you search up how to define recovery, the first thing to pop up is the following definition: it is “a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.” At first glance, this seems like a perfectly acceptable definition but if you sit and think […]
Relapse, Don’t Give Up
Ugochi Guchy Kalu (she/her/hers), Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Tragedies of life are almost unavoidable no matter the route you take. Some-way, some-how like poison ivy, it attaches to your skin, makes you uncomfortable, phases you out, beats you down, knocks you off. In all of these theatrics, you could fall many times, stumble, stagger, […]
Ending the Stigma Surrounding Mental Health
Cassandra Di Lalla, Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Mental health as a whole is one of those things where uncertainty is okay because mental health is a non-linear element in life and it can go in any direction, not based on wants or needs, but based on situations, feelings, events and unfortunately tragedies. Mental […]
Inspiring Hope in Recovery
Elizaveta Garifullina, Low Entropy Volunteer Writer Can we influence the recovery process? Undoubtedly, we can. Our faith and our thoughts can worsen our health or improve it. Many diseases can appear because of our psychosomatics. Many people believe that diseases are a factor in us doing something wrong. It may seem complicated, but […]
Recovery; Taking the First Step
Eri Ikezawa (she/her/hers), Low Entropy Volunteer Writer In an ideal world, an imaginary paradise, at its heart quixotic and utopian, we would lie on a bed of immaculate roses with the thorns shorn off—surrounded only by the rich floral perfume and soft petals on our skin. No misfortunes or heartaches, living in blissful and […]