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People are not their emotions. Someone can feel happiness, but are not happy in themselves. In the negative scenario people adopt feelings of sadness as identities, I am sad, I am depressed, and can create depressive episodes.

Yea bro, intrasexual competition is fascinating.

Where you are, death is not.
Where death is, you are not.

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What kinda supplements would you suggest for someone in that situation?

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I can advise a few things, but you can find dozens of suggestions on Reddit.
• Agmatine to help reduce dose
• Claritin (loratadine) to quell the histamine storm
• Vitamin C for antihistamine and antioxidant support
• Black seed oil for cravings
• NAC (N-acetylcysteine) for reducing cravings and oxidative stress

Important: Never use Benadryl or any other first-generation antihistamines during withdrawal.


Why Avoid First-Generation Antihistamines

First-generation antihistamines:
• Cross the blood brain barrier
• Are anticholinergic, blocking acetylcholine, which is critical for muscle control and smooth nerve signaling
• Reduce dopamine levels, which can cause restless legs syndrome (RLS) to worsen from the dopamine decrease Kratom discontinuation causes.

RLS is fundamentally a dopamine regulation dysfunction. This was my worst symptom, and compression socks helped a lot. A low dose of Valium (0.5 mg) provided total alleviation. Alternatively, you could try other GABA-promoting supplements.

When acetylcholine signaling drops, the nervous system becomes noisy, sending irregular signals to muscles. This causes sensations like twitching, crawling, or the urge to move your legs.


Tapering and Dosage Tips

Some people take very high doses of kratom—up to 10 grams four times a day or even more. Ideally, tapering would look like this:
• Reduce to 5 grams once a day
• Then skip days gradually

For plain leaf kratom, this method results in very few symptoms. However, some people cannot manage tapering and need to go cold turkey.

Because kratom is a partial agonist, it has a ceiling effect. Most users take double the amount they need and can easily cut their dose in half without losing effects. One week at half dose is usually enough to regulate.

I recommend taking 0.5 to 1 gram of agmatine about 30 minutes before your kratom dose for a week. This should help you maintain the same effects with a reduced kratom dose.

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withdrawal symptoms.

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Kratom it’s probably the most effective antihistamine I’ve ever taken. I hardly ever get a cold, and when I do, taking a dose feels like taking a steroid shot.

Most of the withdrawal symptoms, people experience from plain leaf Kratom is histamine rebound, just like when people discontinue Claritin.

Histamine is the brain’s primary wakefulness-promoting neurotransmitters. Kratom dampens this signal. When histamine surges after quitting, you can have cold symptoms, insomnia, and restless legs. But there are certainly supplements she can take to minimize these effects. Just have to follow a regiment similar to people discontinuing other antihistamines.

I don’t need a timer to tell me what to do, if there are no cars within a quarter mile at a country light, I’m going. It feels preposterous to sit there.

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Unfortunately a lot of peoples God is a selfish egotistical modern idolatry

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why didn’t you use the word worship here?

I’m not going to pretend to know the Etymology and nuances of why they chose certain words to translate to but look at the Greek and Hebrew words- The biblical words shachah and proskuneo describe the physical and social act of showing submission or reverence, bowing or falling down.

This is not just some non theist view.
Even william Lane Craig disagrees with you. “It seems to me very clearly that an attitude of worship as opposed to mere admiration or awe or respect requires that the object of worship be perfectly good. … To be perfectly good, God is to be worshiped and adored because He is the supreme good.”

By your definition, everyone worships multiple things, no one’s gonna disagree with you to say that they people have a hierarchy of values.

You can dilute the word worship from something, that is reserved for the Devine, to mean value, and so much so that everything is worship, and it loses meaning, and God to a catch all to mean anything also, but I would reserve these words for God.

Because then I could change any word to mean whatever I want, like baptize. Like saying a gym bro gets baptized with a cold plunge transforming his life to something bigger and better. Then try to argue that anyone can get baptized.

Words matter, we have words like passionate, devoted, committed, even fanatic, and when someone exchanges one of these for worships, they’re speaking in hyperbole.

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Any time you see a group that says they believe in God, but practice from their own " Book" that isn't the Bible, you can dismiss them. They're a cult.

Isn’t the Bible just another cult’s “own book”?

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Ah yea, i’ll take, “what Jewish people said to Christians” for $1000 Alex.

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I don’t think they ever existed. I think Joseph Smith was a con man

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There were 11 named witnesses, and most left the church but didn’t recant their statements. The testaments were formal and signed.