Why do i feel so positive after having a strong coffee

BC-chick

Banned
This is the weirdest @#$% ever but.. when ever i have coffee (nescafe) the one that looks like little dark brown beads ..i'll make a cold or hot cofee with like half a spoon of that stuff and after 10 minutes i have so much energy and i'm positive about everything in my life and i feel so happy... my SA is 80% gone for the rest of the day..it's SO weird! maybe because it gives me energy? majority of the time i feel sleepy... i am not depressed or anything. i do have SA
 
I find coffee to be a depressant as well as causing anxiety, I quit it in October and I have had more energy and feel a lot more upbeat. Before I felt better after I had a cup because I was feeding an addiction. Now I don't touch the stuff and it's made a big difference to me.
 

BC-chick

Banned
that's so weird. i am not addicted to it at all... i have it once a week.. i don't crave it or anything
 
sorry I know it's a different angle but remembered that post had a lot of replies to it with loads of info and opinions about caffeine
 

coyote

Well-known member
i respond very well to stimulants also

i was diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, and i found my anxiety was much less when i took stimulant medication

from what i gather, ADD/ADHD symptoms are caused by lack of stimulus in the brain. the brain is constantly trying to find things that it finds stimulating, hence the distractability, inattention, etc. if something you're supposed to paying attention to is boring, the brain finds it hard to focus, and if it finds something particularly interesting, it has a hard time switching away to something else.

negative emotions - worry, fear, anxiety, depression - can all be very stimulating, so the ADD/ADHD brain likes to focus on these things in the absence of other more positive stimuli

stimulant medication, like ritalin or adderall - or caffiene - stimulate the brain so that it actually calms down and stops scanning for stimulus and you can focus. and it also allows you to stay fixed in the present and not preoccupy your mind with the stimulating negative emotions

just a theory as to why it works for me - can't say for sure if that has anything to do with what you're experiencing
 

gustavofring

Well-known member
I've quit coffee too.

For me coffee is like a few hours of happiness, concentration, productivity and upliftedness that you describe and then a long crash of fatigue and sometimes anxiety and depression for hours. It's a peak and then a crash. Maybe it works for you, but I think it seriously alters my mood to such a degree that it is just a pain in the a$$.

It also has a cumulative effect. There was a time where I would drink 5 cups a day and then pull all nighters and crazy stuff like that. I had seriously become an addict and wanted more and more, not realizing it was really not healthy.
 

Lexington

Banned
I'm an addict and I admit if I quit coffee, a lot of anxiety would disappear.
But my personality can be pretty sleepy so coffee feels like the right drug for me sometimes.!;)

When I smoked, coffee was the perfect partner.:cool:
I still miss a coffee with a smoke. Beautiful in the morning outside a coffee shop reading the paper!
 
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