Reds are typically ideal for physical pain; if you’re looking for more cerebral effects I would go with a green or white. However, as the other commenter said, kratom will numb emotional pain as well.

But using Kratom to do that is a dangerous road; you are flooding your system with dopamine by way of the agonizing of the mu opioid receptor and then when you’re not under the influence you may experience fatigue, cravings, irritability, anxiety and severe depression.

Which is the character of addiction. I can tell you from personal experience, in my opinion, it is more fun to be sober than it is to be a Kratom addict.

Just take it occasionally with friends for fun, or to stop taking a different drug. If you have emotional problems you will need to work on them with a therapist and/or psychiatrist; Kratom will probably make them worse. For some people Kratom can be a slippery road if you take it too often. Be careful!