@Gaming-Planet: Well there will always be reasons why it could be beneficial for certain cases. While kratom is in the opiate family of drugs, it is by no means anywhere close to being as bad as something like heroin. If you are a drug addict of other substances, kratom might actually be a good thing to try out to level people out of drug addictions. I know kratom has been especially helpful to heroin addicts trying to get off their addiction.
If you have medical problems, I can understand why kratom is useful. Kratom and weed are also nothing alike. You do not get the same feelings off the two.
My point to any curious posters/readers here: if you have no reason to be doing kratom, then you probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place. I myself: I had no reason to be doing kratom back when I was doing. It all started out with a coworker introducing me to it, understand the hype it makes one feel "stoked" on life. At the time that was enough for me to help me get through a mundane job, and it worked.
My problem was while I started out taking kratom one time a day, eventually I started taking it three to four times a day, and I began getting super dependent on the drug. Since you are taking kratom, I know you are familiar with the come-down phase. It pretty much takes your energy away you can probably take a great nap - OR you can take more kratom and spruce you right up. That was my trap. After I identified with being addicted to the drug after several months of using it regularly, I decided to cut cold-turkey and then the worst withdrawal I had, I went through.
At the time I felt pretty alienated with my withdrawal and the crippling depression it brought me. At first I questioned if my psyche was permanently damaged and I will never see or feel a positive aspect of life again. I was very afraid of that possibility. I ended up finding different corners of the internet forums where other kratom users were sharing their own horror stories, and for the first time I found people that were going through exactly what I was going through. I eventually fully recovered but damn - looking back at it, that time sucked ass and I'm just glad I'm not dependent on it anymore.
I learned that the kratom purists will never share the ugly side of the substance and insist it's all a hoax that kratom can have such negative influences, but I fucking lived through the horror of the substance so every time I hear anyone mention the drug these days hyping it up, I can't help but roll my eyes every time someone tries to introduce it or hype it up, because I know they are misled.
With that said, kratom is not the worst drug in the world, but if you have no reason to be using it then stay away. There's no reason to risk the negative side-effects including addiction.
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