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I do this dumb shit to myself. Oh it’s 6pm, surely an energy drink won’t do any harm?
Me at 4am having a panic attack because there is some minor issue I can’t stop thinking about…
A few months ago, my buddy gave me a bag of absolutely ambrosial chocolate-covered espresso beans as a thank you for attending a coffee tasting.
Beans = Caffine did not compute, so I was munching on them morning noon and night, and I had run out after a week of not being able to sleep at night before I finally made the connection XD
I drink 32oz of black coffee every single day. That’s 4 cups.
Sometimes I have more.
Only 4? Well, that’s your problem. You need 4 per hour!
6 monsters in a day is a great experience
And then go to sleep at 8 PM because caffeine doesn’t work that way for you
Surely you will not regret 6 monsters in a day
People really do underestimate the effects caffeine has on mental and physical health. And how addictive it is. It’s so ubiquitous that we don’t even see it as a drug. But it is a drug – a relatively mild one, but still.
Try going completely without caffeine for a month, see how you feel. You’ll need a week or two to get past the withdrawal symptoms – mostly headaches and lethargy – but after that, I bet you’ll feel overall much better.
I’ve joked about how normalized it is that we use caffeine as a drug to feed an almost civilizational addiction.
Imagine checking into a motel room and saying “Oh, man, this motel doesn’t even have a spoon and a lighter to cook my heroin in! What a cheap joint this place is!” or going to a social gathering and wondering “I wonder when someone is going to offer me some meth. It’s only polite!”
And yet, here we are, a world of addicts.
I take energy shots roughly 2 times a week as needed, and occasionally enjoy a coffee with a cigar, but I have friends who are legitimately physically addicted to it. It’s crazy how normalized it is.
I think my depression broke my caffeine response. I can drink 2 16oz Celsius cans and still fall asleep immediately.
Be careful on those, my buddy was drinking 4 a day and had a stroke. Even if the mental responses is borked, it still hits you physically!
I almost never go above 1 a day, I was just trying it because 1 wasn’t doing anything. But since 2 didn’t help either, I just went back to 1.
when you have too much your body integer overflows and you become calm again
That’s just ADHD
I’ve seen a study that confirms this. I think it was in Futurama.
It calms me.
Why are you calling me out like this!
<<OBJECTION!>>
i heard caffeine can make adhd people sleepy
I’m fairly sure I’m mildly audhd. Not sure if autistic or ADHD (or both) honestly, family never followed up on initial doctor concerns when I was a kid, and I’ve not gotten tested as an adult but have signs of both: focus issues, hyperactivity, eye contact issues, touch sensitivity (I can feel my socks rubbing, pants crinkling at the knee, etc. and it can be seriously distracting/distressing), noise sensitivity, etc.
Stimulants like caffeine and tea help me focus a bit better. And can confirm, coffee is magic. A cup in the morning can get me going, and a cup in the evening will let me sleep like a baby. I can guzzle a mug 30 minutes before bed and it’s relaxing, will still conk right out.
Also, can easily drink 30+ ounces a day and not get jitters or even nudge my heart rate, my HR is usually in the mid-60s to low 70s throughout the day unless I’m being physically active or doing dedicated exercise.
I only notice that I drank too much coffee because my chest feels weird and then I get scared and try to have self control for some time.
I’ll definitely be more anxious if I don’t self-Medicare my ADHD
self-Medicare
Autocorrect failed me and I’m not wearing my glassess
That milligram number is between me and god
Listen, we all have our maladaptive behavior to deal with this modern hellscape. Healthy people are just sufficiently deluded.
Look, my lisdexamphetamine barely gets me out of bed at this point and I’m all out of methylphenidate "boosters’. Trust me. I know what I’m doing.
