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Kanna, Sceletium Tortuosum - Addiction, that is right I got addicted to the succulent

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aguythatlikessmoke

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Anyhow what started out as therapeutic usage of Kanna, Sceletium Tortuosum for the management of anxiety and Depression ended up in an Addiction. Now I am basically eating and Snorting and taking Kanna sublingually everyday. If I don't have it for a day I feel anxious and Depressed. I am also having mild Amphetamine withdrawal though Kanna eases such troubles.
I am a negative individual at times and Kanna eases this. Kanna gets me stoned and it gets me a body high it relieves me from Tension.
I am having loads of stress right now. Too many exams and shiat.
Kanna eases but at the same time the days im without it. I stress even more. I have been using Amphetamines a bit too seems they increase Depression.
I have my final exam in Pathophysiology coming up, God may I get graced with luck.

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I am having serious anxiety and tension and I am obsessing about my last exam 25,000 Dollars is on stake and a Year at University. I am stressed. Kanna eases me any more advice from yall?
Thanks Bluelight community.
I hate University its a heck load of stress , overwhelming, bad for anxious people.
 
Kanna is messed up though. It gives you a rush when you snort it, Effects are quite strong for a herbal succulent. It is quite a strong Antidepressant I have been using it a lot. I suffer from Stress and anxiety at University. I study Pharmacy I am in the 3rd year its the hard as hell.
 
why would you even think about stopping the kanna, if it just causes depression and withdrawls? Obviously you need to be taking daily, everyday, for the rest of your life. Then you should have no issues. Am I missing something here?
 
As a former heavy kanna user, I'd like to give my two cents on the addiction side of things

I can't speak for the op but from my experience i can say there are some side effects of regular use, for example, the numbness, once you've primed this herb enough to feel its full effects, the rush is amazing, its subtlety only makes it more enjoyable as you feel like you are still in control, whereas something like coke feels like you're clinging on to a wild ride.

Another adversity being the memory loss, not much is said about this and I'd like to clarify the memory loss is more akin to weed rather than xanax or anything. In that memories from just a week ago have a dream-like fog around them, I was having to do 3x as much school work to make up for my little habit

However after 30mins-1hour the rush subsides and youre put in a sedated almost trance like state, where youre seem detached from things around you, you become numb to emotion and feeling and gain a sort of passenger perspective in your own life, after regular use (4 lines every morning, 2 more at lunch for about 3 months) you realise youre going weeks at a time without feeling human

Attempting to quit is hard

After three months I just wanted everything to be normal again, I wanted to feel sad again and I wanted to care about my grades, main problem with quitting is you feel imbalanced, after so long, youre not enhanced when you take kanna, youre just normal, so when you don't take it, youre kinda depressed

I would get a twitchy nose, I'd be assessing whether one single line could do much harm "maybe I don't need to quit, just cut back"

Initially you crave the rush and the buzz of the herb, after time you even crave the numbness and sense of wellbeing, I found it was best to distract myself, I was asking my friends to meet up every night, every time I felt the craving I'd smoke a bowl of weed or plain leaf salvia to detach for a bit

After time I forgot I even had some left, until about a month ago I decided to start occasionally dosing, now that I know the risks of overdoing it. I only take it now maybe once a month, I think my sensitivity to its effects still stand, but my tolerance has degraded to nothing and because of that its my favourite substance at the minute (I have access to most things I'm not some kid smoking legal herbs)

I enjoy it occasionally maybe on a night out (not too much as its synergy with alcohol gets me about 6 beers ahead of everyone else)

If I want to smoke some weed then I normally cut maybe 0.1g with kanna into a joint and its plenty to myself (I smoke maybe 10 times a year so no tolerance at all)

Or even by itself just to get a nice "Friday feeling"
 
Interesting. I suppose anything has addiction potential if the right person finds it pleasurable. Either stock up on a lifetime supply or start weaning off gradually once your stressful period is over. If kanna is "nature's SSRI" like I've heard it described, perhaps you could benefit from an actual SSRI? It's not very practical to have to dose kanna all day just to stave off withdrawals/rebound depression.
 
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