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I got off coffee for two weeks to as an experiment. Note I currently drink about 2 cups a day. My energy was much more balanced - could wake up fully alert.
by proee 16y ago
I got off coffee for two weeks to as an experiment. Note I currently drink about 2 cups a day.
My energy was much more balanced - could wake up fully alert. However, I felt depressed the entire two weeks. Generally just very SAD.
So I got back on the drug after two weeks and with the first cup of coffee I just burst out into laughter. I literally could not stop laughing for about a minture (huge smile on the face).
Now that I'm back on the drug my energy levels are up and down but I'm not in my depression hole.
Anyone else experience depression when going off coffee?
- Zev 16y agoNot coffee, but, I had a similar experience with Coca Cola a few years back. I went from drinking 1.5-2L a day[1] to none[2]. Of course, I dropped caffeine and picked up sugar instead (turns out, its really cheap to grab a Brita filter and a large jug of sugar flavored like Iced Tea to mix into water..). Now, its slightly more balanced. I try to only have sugar or caffeine when I'm not at home. 1. A glass when I came home from school (around 1:30-2pm), a glass when having a snack (around 4:30pm), and a glass at dinner (around 7pm) 2. My college has a deal with Pepsi -- none of the dining halls have Coca Cola and there is only one or two vending machines that have it on campus.
- proee 16y agoInteresting, I ran through the numbers and 2L of Coke is about the same caffeine as two cups of 12 oz coffee.
- Zev 16y agoHuh. Didn't realize it was that much. I thought it was only equal to 1-1.5 cups of coffee/day. Thanks for doing the math!
- proee 16y ago2 Liters of Coke has 300mg of caffeine. That's right about 4 shots of Starbucks espresso, one 16oz cup of Starbucks drip brew, or two regular coffee (non starbucks) drip brew.