A customer sent me a message thanking me for not only creating a helpful product but a community through our site where they are understood and seen. It made me cry... joyful tears of course. I'm not usually an emotional person and I can't remember the last time I cried so this was a pleasant surprise to me.
I was in a very dark place less than two years ago and I honestly didn't know if I would get through it. I was a new mom and instead of loving it like EVERYONE said I would, I was actually depressed, anxious and a tired mess that got through my days using kratom. Today, I'm now a mom of 2 (and I'm actually loving it), not dependent on any substances and really able to help others see the light too.
I have received a lot of thank-you's and positive reviews over the last few months for creating QuitK but I think the part that got me this morning was that I (and you) have a legitimate community that acknowledges how easily it is to get hooked on a legal substance and how hard it is to get off of. I don't know about you, but to me it felt like kratom addiction was a silent epidemic. Doctors told me some of the horrible symptoms I was experiencing while using kratom wouldn't have been cause by kratom. Turns out they were wrong, they just didn't know anything about kratom. My brother made fun of me when I told him I was addicted to kratom as if I was crazy to think a natural, herbal, legal product was addictive. I'll post about the negative side of kratom on social pages and get people who try to illegitimate my claims as they are proponents of kratom. My guess, is those people are very dependent on the substance and fear that people shining a negative light on it will threaten their access to it in the future.
Either way, I know how alone you can feel right now if you're in the throes of your kratom use but I promise you there is a way out and you are not alone.
So much love,
Emily
Founder of QuitK