I gave up coffee and coke and the effect has been amazing ive had a 95% reduction in my voices
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Yea I think energy drinks cause schizophrenia there’s so many chemicals in them I know you didn’t say energy drinks but there’s a lot of chemicals and I’m pretty sure my psychosis was worse from drinking so many
Maybe I should try giving up caffeine. I hallucinate once in a while on 10mg Abilify.
I have drank large amounts of coffee for 45 years, so I have built up enough of a tolerance that it doesn’t really affect my state of mind. It’s kind of defeatist for me to be so psychologically dependent on a substance like caffeine, though. The body builds up a tolerance for stimulants fairly quickly. When I was in the army I would drink three cups of coffee at breakfast and then have a dreamy, pleasant morning. By the evening I would be depressed. Now three cups of coffee has little effect on me.
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I drank 20 rockstar energy drinks a day and a half ago when I hospitalized I wasn’t even fat either but I thought my parents weren’t my real parents and that my parents where celebrities whom I shall not mention in LA and I was driving around say crazy stuff and honking my horn I didn’t sleep either. I don’t recommend caffeine but now I’m at 3 cups of coffee a day. I was also smoking 5 plus packs a day then. I’m a wild boy haha
Year and a half ago I mean
5 packs of cigarettes per day? Thats a lot. Did you stop smoking?
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I drink Pepsi Max which has a bit of caffeine. Schizophrenia is a brain disease/brain disorder though so the symptoms may only be gone for now. Good luck though!
20 rock stars a day is 3200mg caffeine a day lol. Your kidneys would be fried after a month
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I gave up caffeine and it made a huge difference for me too. I’d recommend trying to go without caffeine for 2 weeks as a test to see how you get on. Nothing to lose.
Caffeine worsens psychosis for me. I cant tolerate it.
I’m back on drinking coffee and cola for at least two weeks. I drink it till noon(coffee) and somewhat cola on the afternoons. But not everyday. I’m thinking about going with no caffeine for some time in the future.
For like a month I was. I don’t know I stopped shortly after
Maybe it was 12 I don’t know exactly I bought them in 3s nonstop
I drink coffee, i dont see a positive difference without it.
I’ve been feeling hungover in the mornings, even though I haven’t had any alcohol. A 20oz diet coke or two makes this feeling go away.
Wow! That’s amazing!
I’m addicted to energy drinks,
I have three of them each morning,
Maybe I should quit to see if it helps the voices.
There is a lot of studies about caffeine/sz
I don’t believe you. 20 rockstar cans would kill a person from caffeine overdose.
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I was sober for ten years straight. Some green tea, but no coffee, no alcohol, no cigarettes, no meat.
I became severely psychotic regardless. I started alcohol two years after voices etc began. I still never drink coffee.