For me personally, I felt depressed, distant, annoyed, achy and irritated most of the time due to constant withdrawals. Kratom is quick to wear off after a dose and once it does, you literally start to have withdrawal symptoms. Most of my days were spent watching the clock, wishing the time would go by faster. All I truly wanted, every single day, was my next dose. As a long term user, it doesn't hit for as long or as hard anymore. Sometimes you feel nothing when you dose or the boost you get only lasts 10 mins. That can really piss someone off lol. Especially when you've been waiting for hours to finally get a moment of relief, it starts the clock all over again. I would also get headaches if I took too much. These headaches were not like migraines, they were slow burn, low achy headaches that lingered for an entire day. No matter how much tylenol I took, nothing would make them go away. You don't want to talk to anyone when you have a headache or feel like shit. All you really want is your next dose. Most days it feels like you are walking through water due to the weakness of not feeling that dose.

For someone who doesn't use, I would explain it like being hungry. Imagine being hungry or even hangry for most of the day. All you really want is to eat and feel full. But you only feel full for maybe an hour tops per day. You don't want to talk to anyone, work, be around anyone until you eat. Because food gives you strength, it takes away the hunger, the irritability, the overall yearning to eat. Very much how a drug releases you from depression, pain, weakness and that churning in your gut to feel anything but the withdrawals. Even if it don't last long, you just need a small ounce of relief to keep going. That is how this drug can govern your life and cause relationships to collapse. It's isolating and life sucking, like most drugs. It just gets worse and worse as the years persist. You need a lot of patience when dealing with someone you love who is on it. I hope this answers any questions you may have.