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There's an anti-caffeine 'education' programme in the states? For real?

• wccrawford 6y ago
  If there is, it's subtle. I've heard about studies that talk about the negatives of caffeine, as well as some that talk about the benefits. But none of that seemed to be pushing an agenda. Practically everyone around me thinks they need caffeine to get through the day. I'm one of the only people I know who are caffeine-free. Long ago, I thought caffeine gave me headaches, and I refused to drink it. Then I started having trouble staying away during the day and nothing the doctors did mattered. So I turned to caffeine reluctantly, and it helped for a while. Eventually I was drinking so much caffeine each day that I was getting sick from it. So I cut back, and then I was falling asleep during the day again. (Or at least feeling exhausted and that I needed to sleep and kind of took a waking nap.) So I cut off the caffeine again and, no big surprise, it's the same as when I was drinking caffeine. Except that I don't get any caffeine-withdrawal headaches when I can't get enough or forget to drink enough. I know from the past that telling people they don't need caffeine doesn't work, though. They just won't listen. They have to figure it out themselves. So yeah... If there's an anti-caffeine education here, it's very subtle.
• HarryHirsch 6y ago
  When the physician diagnoses you with caffeine abuse when you drink 1.5 liters of coffee over the day, yes.