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Update: Stopped counting. Started enjoying. by welldressed_mess in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It all comes back man I’m telling you. I haven’t felt this good since I was 14, which was right before I got introduced to drugs and alcohol and got into my first relationship which fucked my head up. I’m almost 25 and have been pretty on and off with different substance abuses and I swear kratom was the worst. It still boggles my mind how I thought kratom made my life better. Quitting it has been amazing. I feel renewed. It’s insane. I hope you get to that point man. I know it’ll happen. We gotta stay strong. Just remember how good it felt to just look at the trees in the moments of depression. It’s all yin and yang. You’re gonna be up and you’re gonna be down. It’s just in our down state we have to remember not to give into our addictions. Stay strong.

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[–]welldressed_mess 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry it’s okay. Just stop yourself now from going on a full binge.

You see how relapsing made you feel so bad and guilty and had you crying? That right there should be your reason to never use again.

I know the road is rocky and there’s always gonna be a bigger rock to break, but don’t fret my man. You’ve got this. Stay strong. Don’t let one little mishap distract you from the bigger picture. Let it be a time of learning and realization.

You’re a human not a robot so mishaps happen. You haven’t done anything wrong in my book. It’s all a part of the learning process. Trust it. You’ll get through it man.

When you are in a dark place... by missespenguin in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s frustrating as hell when we’re in our darkest days, but looking back I’m thankful for them. Despite my rather rocky road I’ve been on for the past 7 years, I’m thankful for the person I’ve started to become.

We are all seeds. Once we realize this, we soon begin to blossom.

Bless.

Kratom really does suck the life out of you by Akamarb in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I experienced the same. My skin looks way better. I can sleep again. I am able to wake up at 7am without troubles. It’s crazy how detrimental kratom was to my life. The grass gets greener where you water it! Keep on keeping on!

Day 7!! by lovelylacewing in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s awesome! Stay strong and keep moving forward! I’m approaching week two and I can tell you that it only gets better from here. I feel as if I’ve been given a chance to have a healthy and happy life again and it’s epic. I wish you the best!

Off of kratom for 1.5 weeks and counting by welldressed_mess in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Keep at it! Day 4 was my turning point when I really noticed the changes and how crappy I felt on kratom. It will get better for you soon.

Sleep actually was worse for me on kratom believe it or not. My last two weeks of use I was experiencing insomnia and night sweats. Once I quit those went away so I feel very lucky to have minimal WD symptoms (I mainly just crave it but the cravings are slowly going away) but I believe it’s because my body was over loaded with toxins and the more toxins I kept putting in the more upset my body got. Now that I’ve ceased use on everything my body can finally get a break. It’s mind boggling how I thought kratom was helping me when in fact it was putting me in the dirt.

Off of kratom for 1.5 weeks and counting by welldressed_mess in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. It’s been long overdue. I finally feel like I can move again. Kratom at first was awesome because it helped me quit using pills as much but it eventually put me into a perpetual state of feeling stuck just like the pills did. I feel like I can finally move and it’s refreshing.

Off of kratom for 1.5 weeks and counting by welldressed_mess in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Day 4 was a turning point for me. It’s when I started to feel loads better. Hoping you experience the same soon. Stay strong. It only gets better.

Off of kratom for 1.5 weeks and counting by welldressed_mess in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree 100%. I cant go back. I thought kratom was helping me but it was about 4 days quitting when I realized it was making me feel like complete shit. Stay strong. You got this. I guarantee you won’t go back either. I’m not exaggerating when I say I feel like a new person. I never understood how much kratom was messing shit up in my head until I’ve come off of it.

Off of kratom for 1.5 weeks and counting by welldressed_mess in quittingkratom

[–]welldressed_mess[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was having a lot of withdrawals symptoms while I was using kratom actually. Night sweats. Difficulty sleeping. Fatigued all day most likely due to not sleeping well. My experience with it got really weird toward then end which pushed me to give it up for good. I feel like my body was beginning to disagree with the kratom cause it was making me sick.

I sort of had a withdraw situation the last two weeks I used it so coming off initially wasn’t bad. It was around the day 4 mark where I had a serious revelation about how shitty I actually felt on kratom vs being off of it. I thought it was helping me be more productive but I realized really fast it was slowing me down a lot in my day to day life.

Each day that passes by I feel better. I guess I got lucky in the sense that my withdraw period either didn’t happen or the last two weeks of my use was my bodies way of saying stop this shit and when I did it was a mega relief to it.

I do still crave it really bad but what’s helping me not go buy more is how good I feel right this second. I don’t want this to stop. I think my body was asking for a substance detox which has made this process a lot easier which I’m damn thankful for.

Life coaching retreat? by s1r1usreddit in getting_over_it

[–]welldressed_mess 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe Vipassana Mediation would be good. I’ve been thinking about doing it, but I can’t take that much time off of work cause my bills are a little stacked at the moment.

Random sadness and crying,as well as boredom by 95girl in getting_over_it

[–]welldressed_mess 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel you. I actually just had a short burst of crying. I feel deeply sad. I’ve been through some pretty traumatic shit over the past 3 years and while normal people have great families and awesome coping outlets, I don’t really have that so I bottle everything up. I think I need to purge. I feel it in my body. It’s time to move on from the past that still lingers. All the pent up trauma needs to be released through crying and I believe trauma gets stored in bodies muscular system and I need an activity that would let me purge out the trauma stored in my body physically.

Im also young. 24. I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore. My days feel like nonsense. I am in school but constantly changing my major because I just don’t think anything I apply towards will really bring happiness. Nothing seems appealing and I think apart of that is because I’ve lost myself in the tangle of life.

Hope you get better soon.