Quitting Coffee for good

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i drink 3 cups of strong coffee every morning

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Oh well - Just caved.

I am enjoying a fresh cup of hot coffee as I am typing this - :smile:

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Well, it doesnt help anxiety. It does help me function. I am addicted to caffeine so thatā€™s that. I have made a change, though- I just have my morning coffee (now I drink it in bed because I am lazy/drugged out on some other shit most people havent heard of) because caffeine and cardio=cardiac arrest.

I do need it to study, though. I also need it to do social things into the late evening, I usually have coffee before hanging out with friends because I canā€™t really trust myself to be alert enough to converse (or drive) after intense exercise on my handful of sedating medsā€¦makes senseā€¦

I would taper off. Caffeinism is a real thing and we people with scz are more likely to have it, thatā€™s when we have 1000mg or more of it a day, and not having it will make us sick like we have the flu. So avoid that. That is no fun. Not saying you have caffeinism, you seem to know meds extremely well, no, but we scz are also just not normal and do not respond to most drugs like normal peopleā€¦I guess what I am trying to say is that if caffeine is part of your equilibrium, dont mess it up.

Now I drink strong ass coffee. I dont know how many tablespoons of grounds you brew per oz of water, but I use starbucks blonde roast 4tbps per 16oz of water. Thatā€™s some serious caffeine. It even makes me go from ā€œclinically brain deadā€ to ā€œpissedā€.

But being pissed helps when you need to get tons of ā– ā– ā– ā–  done.

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I think I would ā€œpissā€ myself if I drank your brew. Ha

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I went around 10 days to 2 weeks without it. It felt worse than being on it. So I chose to to back to it

I did it for mood balancing not for anxiety. When I quit caffeine I went into a big depression

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Yeah caffeine lifts low mood - I feel much better now that I had a cup of coffee

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Lol Wave. I think cutting down as you have is your best bet - the cold turkey route would be torturous. Son drinks quite a bit of coffee too, but he will mix it up during the day with hot tea with relaxing properties. I donā€™t think one cup a day will be bad for you.

I enjoy my big cup of coffee in the mornings so much, no way could I ever give it up!

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Coffee + alcohol. In about 2/3s of those who do both in excess. (I was a CADC for years.)

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