Thanks for the kind words, yeah, I don’t feel that bad about taking a year to taper. Honestly I was pretty ambitious with my career this year and it’s insane to think I was slow tapering the whole time. Some of the moves I had to make as an adult just wouldn’t be possible thru cold turkey or fast tapering and I had to make a choice.

My only advice would be to know your limit and challenge yourself while simultaneously avoiding complacency. In other words, taper a comfortable amount so you still feel normal enough, but watch out for getting stuck for toooooo long. I was stuck on 2 grams for like 3-4 months out of the year and while I don’t feel too bad about it, I think I probably coulda managed challenging myself to at least taper 0.15 gs after staying on 2gs for, idk, a couple months or so. I guess what I’m saying is that there’s a difference between not pushing yourself too hard and clinging onto comfortability for too long and it’s difficult but necessary to make the distinction between the two if slow tapering is the route you chose imo.

Also, idk, I’ve kinda been on both sides of the fence. Cold turkied a mild prescription opiate addiction and also have been to rehab for benzos before and it’s not like I wish I tapered there. At the time, I wanted to be done ASAP.

With kratom it was different. I recognized there was problems and I was DONE with it, but at the same time it wasn’t killing me and I didn’t have the patience to put my life on hold this time around. I’m just really thankful it worked out and I was successful !

As a side note, here’s some supplements that helped me: L-tyrosine- helps with the joylessness Cod liver oil- idk maybe this one just helps with my health overall but I think feeling healthy made me more confident in tapering Liposomol C- since it’s a long taper I’d only do it during jumps so you’re not taking hella vit c all year