dopemelancholy
Greenlighter
I was diagnosed with bipolar 2 when my dad took me to mental clinic and got prescribed 0.25mg lorazepam and 1mg abilify daily. they seemed to be scared to prescribe me anything since I was too young, abilify was something they give to autistic kids apparently to treat violent behavior or anger problem.I wouldn't say kratom is 100% safe but it is certainly a lot safer than tramadol.
Also I forgot how different Japanese Drs are compared to American docs. In Japan it's still pretty uncommon for a doctor to write any prescription, right? Compared to here, where you can't really seem to avoid it. For example I ended up on Adderall without that even being the reason I was going to the Dr (I do have ADD though).
Generally, benzo and anti-psychotics are prescribed very easily, probably SSRI as well even though my previous doc was terrified of me going manic from SSRI all the time. None of those psych meds did anything except making me feel like zombie.
I was addicted to "use as needed" lorazepam with about 0.5mgx4 dose without knowing, I was simply told that there'll be "discontinuation syndrome".
I was one of those ignorant folk who would confuse marijuana with opioid because they have same kanji in word that describe each. except that I didn't feel any sense of guilt or shame whatsoever with habits but I think that's on my cultural dissociation after long years of isolation.
Life changed after discovering psychonaut wiki, and then all other english sources of information. I started to self-medicate and it was finally something that would actually make me feel like someone who can be happy again(which also means other thing as well).