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Wellness Wednesday for March 1, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

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Anyone here take Kratom? I’ve been taking 2g a day (via caplets) every day for about 8 months and haven’t really built a tolerance. I get about 45 minutes to an hour of euphoria before it wears off. No major side effects, no hangover. I probably have some low level addiction to it at this point, but I can go days without using it and not feel badly.

I use it on occasion when I need a pickmeup. I normally need to take two of the big capsules from UrbanIce to really feel anything, and then the impact seems to last throughout the day as a low grade non-jittery energy. A little more euphoric effect than modafinil, but less than large amounts of caffeine or marijuana. I've been using it very sparingly for a long time, less because of concerns about addiction (which doesn't tend to be an issue for me in the short term) than accounts of sexual side effects, I simply don't need it enough to risk my marriage.

large amounts of caffeine

Caffeine has Euphoric effects? I must have lucked into the particular type of shitty genetics where neither caffeine nor marijuana does anything for me psychologically.

In large amounts. Larger than one normally takes. Like if I just chug a preworkout I'm very much energized and feel like taking on the world. But that's also set and setting, I'm drinking it knowing I'm going into a weightroom for a big workout or an exam room. Maybe if I chugged it before a funeral I'd feel different emotions. Also very vulnerable to tolerance, but we're talking minimum a quad shot of espresso.

I've used large amounts during college (around 3-4 cans of red bull over 4-5 hours), which definitely kept me awake but I was unable to notice the commonly experienced caffeine-induced anxiety/jitteriness let alone euphoria.

Similarly with Marijuana, I had the equivalent of 7 cigarette-sized joints over a 10-hour period the last time I smoked weed with nothing but a mild high, the person I was smoking with was out of his mind laughing maniacally by joint #4.

I don't have a tolerance for either caffeine or THC. But I suppose the pre-smoking/drinking mindset plays a part.