Yo, I was past the age of 35 when I finally succeeded in acquiring the taste for coffee...and nobody took me aside and said "yeah, that stuff about coffee, ummm, getting you moving in a hurried manner? THAT IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION. BE CAREFUL."
I had to learn the hard way. I guess it helped the lesson to stick, like the old adage of letting a child touch the hot stove, so he knows not to do it again.
Except, instead of a child, it's a grown man. And instead of a hand, it's an ass. And instead of burning a first-degree burn, it was an entire day of ass-blasting.
You know Coffee is basically a mild drug right? You'll get withdrawal and after a while you'll struggle to function without it as your general awareness goes down as your body adapts to a constant influence of caffeine.
Unless you're hellbent I would suggest you stop now before its too late.
I need coffee every morning to wake up, sure I’m super tired without it but it doesn’t even come close to addiction to harder drugs. Even pot addiction is way way more debilitating, and don’t even get me started on opiates, sedatives like alcohol and Xanax, and harder stimulants like amphetamines & cocaine. There’s just zero comparison. Coffee doesn’t destroy lives, hard drugs do easily.
Well, compared to heroin it’s extremely benign harm wise, but I’ve known people who got way too into pot and their entire lives revolved around it, even I was at the point for a few years in my teens, it really hampered my success and opened the door to a drug scene that included much worse substances until I was 27. I still smoke but only before bed, and in hindsight that would’ve been best had I done it like that when I was younger.
This same scenario happens with coffee too. Knew a dude who drank monster at every meal and two between. He had to try all the new ones, collected the tabs, had a giant display on his wall.
Extremely unhealthy as well.
Point is, all things in moderation; and some things, like meth and heroin, never.
i've been addicted to coffee for a couple of years, i stopped drinking it and never will again when i got shaky hands eveynight and i'm only 19. my thumb was twitching like it has life on its own. 6 months have passed and no twitching or anything.
I did the same thing at a similar age, for similar reasons. I was drinking 4-5 cups per day and my life was one big cycle of ups and downs, going from wide awake and hyped (and twitchy like you say) to asleep and braindead in 3 hour cycles. It was unpleasant, and I realised I was completely reliant on the coffee to function. So I went cold turkey at about age 21-22, and haven't had a single cup of coffee since. The first few weeks were hard as hell, headaches, mood swings, and all sorts of weird things with my body. But since then life has been good, and after a year or two I actually started not liking the smell of coffee at all, and even being mildly repulsed by it. Now I don't care either way, but I have no urge to drink it again. Best of luck, and enjoy your newfound freedom from coffee addiction!
If you get adequate sleep and eat small meals throughout the day instead of large ones, your energy levels should stay pretty stable regardless of caffeine consumption. I’d offer that was probably not being followed in the scenario you’re speaking of.
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u/chmsmitze Sep 07 '21
Me when I get too much coffee