[Lain]

My fear with them is that they are highly addictive. If you get hooked on them, there are stories of people that needed years just to get off. have a lot of anxiety, so they would probably help me a lot, but I've never tried them once. Here, if you get caught with them illegally, you're in some trouble. It's very hard to even get a prescription here.

Kratom is extremely popular here though (almost as popular as weed).

i thought anxiety meds were like the easiest things to get in the states lol
even just going to your vet and saying 'my dog is scared at night he needs doggy xanax' lol
at least thats what the crackhead pages I follow on social media claim, but then again anxiety meds are extremely overprescribed globally.

most people here have never heard of kratom, even though we have our own little opioid epidemic as well. it's weird since it's typically used by recovering addicts to curb withdrawal.
but it's pretty nice tbh, a lot more clear-feeling than smoking weed, i.e. I can read a book and remember it, so it's been my substance of choice these last couple weeks. only down-side i've personally noticed is that I sleep for like 12hrs or more if I use it within a couple hours of heading to bed.
time and place, and moderation, as always.

eh drugs have their uses, personally I prefer the benefits of meditation, martial arts, and mental training.
Stress is transitory if you let it be, focus on the end result and learn to become like water, flow around obstructions in your path, nothing is permanent and all things pass with time, focus on a project or hobby and use it to increase natural dopamine which helps as well.

this is handy especially now, it's how I'm keeping sane during the pandemic.

yeah but why train meditation from a bodhisattva for 10+yrs to achieve even the beginnings of enlightenment when you can just smoke some dmt and talk to god xd
im jk
i dont even use drugs for stress relief anymore. I'd drink a lot over the last couple years because of it, but i can safely say I haven't had a drink for months now and i'm doing way better.

i used to do martial arts back in the day, taekwondo specifically and did end up getting 2-dan, so I know the importance of strong mental. never really got into meditation until I started using psychedelics, because they really force you to think about things differently, and getting out of my own head and ego was basically impossible for my old self, simply since I didn't know how that actually felt like or what it entailed. if you really feel like shit all the time, then maybe psychs are the way to go, at least I personally have absolutely no regrets, but otherwise yeah just regular mental training will do wonders.