Taking kratom for depression is a bit like taking codeine for depression or something. You are basically numbing your perception of reality to some extent. This kind of thing is good for certain people. I'd probably use St. John's wort and lemon balm tinctures for mood if it were me, kratom can be addictive and is best left to severe pain IMO.
Personally, I think shrooms or ketamine hold better possibilities for getting out of depression, but it always needs to be combined with some other positive actions and done in a careful and responsible way.
The best way is meditation, this is the way for the determined person who wants a cure. I hear CBT can be very good as well. Maybe you have tried these things already.
I would literally take anything that gets rid of depression. I found Kratom did nothing for me at all (other than make me literally sick at higher doses!), but I wanted to see if it had helped anyone else here. I'd take numb...I'd take somewhat high - but nothing is helping that much atm.
Have tried both... the shrooms make me cry because they bring up past memories and make me cry about them - and it isn't in a healing way for me, more torture and shame around my marriage which has ended due to mental illness. They also make my stomach sooo uncomfortable. I don't feel better the day after them either - if I did, they would possibly be worth it, but instead just days of my stomach in knots and still really depressed - plus hallucinating. Not for me. I am all in favour of other people trying them though. I'm giving my left over ones to my ex. I also have a lot of LSD I don't use anymore, because it doesn't help me anymore, not in big doses and not in microdoses either.
The Ketamine - I'm not sure if it did anythnig or not - I was really depressed and bedridden when I tried it, and it's possible I became less bedridden. I didn't love it, and not desperate to take it again.
I don't know - if I'm well enough to sit and meditate - with the loud suicidal thoughts and high anxiety it was impossible. I'm now on St John's Wort and hte suicidal thoughts are quieter (though also quite decided) so maybe I could sit and meditate. There are very experienced meditators who have still CTB though - because meditation doesn't cure mental illness...But yeah, I'm all in favour of anything that works for anyone. I found when I was feeling better for two weeks (on Polygala Tenuifoila before it stopped working for me, like everything seems to!) erm that I got up and did yoga and loved it! Which is not how I usually feel about yoga with the depression. I have to force myself out of bed to walk my dog :)
Success today though - I am up at 1pm, and am looking after my dog today, so I will take her out.
Hope y'all have an okay day, or even a good day :)
