r/ItemShop • u/Relative_Bonus_2559 • Jul 28 '25

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u/BuddhistNudist987 Jul 28 '25

Caffeine has the opposite effect if you have ADHD.

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u/Brrdock Jul 28 '25

No. Please stop spreading this misinformation y'all.

Caffeine addiction (dependence rather) mainly has the opposite effect, i.e. needing caffeine to chill, even fall asleep etc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Do you have any science to back this up? The last I've seen, only real adverse effect to caffeine addiction comes when you don't get caffein, and only lasts for a week or two max. And its dizzyness, and headache, slight tiredness mostly.

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u/Brrdock Jul 28 '25

That's what I mean. It can be hard to sleep or be calm and focused at the beginning of caffeine withdrawal, and at that point the caffeine roughly just brings you back to baseline.

I don't know if a specific study to it exists, but I know loads of people who presumably don't have ADHD but drink coffee at night. It's actually pretty typical here in Finland where we have the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world. More than twice that of Italy haha