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⌈ Secret Post #2729 ⌋

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[killer is dead]

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[Lackadaisy]

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[Joe Trohman, Fall Out Boy]

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[Yowamushi Pedal]

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[How To Train Your Dragon 2]

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[A Game of Thrones]

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[Fruit's Basket]

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[Community]

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[Rythian, a.k.a Joakim Hellstrand]

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[The Devil Wears Prada]

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[Night Court]

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People (my doctor and therapist especially) constantly telling me to stop drinking coffee. No, doing that isn't going to help my anxiety and sleep problems. I'm intelligent and aware enough of my own body to come to that conclusion on my own. Coffee helps my body feel good and helps me focus and function throughout the day; my life was a lot worse when I wasn't drinking it. And my messed up internal clock and anxiety issues won't be magically alleviated if I stop drinking it.

As long as you're not drinking twelve full pots a day or something, and don't have any 3 hours prior to your preferred bedtime/when you go to sleep, you should be fine. Also as long as you're not dumping huge quantities of cream and sugar in it, obviously. Studies have shown it is non-addictive, and can protect you from both Parkinson's and cirrhosis, and may help prevent mild dementia in seniors. I think 4-6 cups per day is considered moderate consumption.

I usually have around 3 cups without cream or sugar, and I stop drinking it at least 5 hours before I go to sleep. Thanks for your comment, it made me feel better!

Caffeine is definitely physically addictive, though just not to a serious degree. Not having coffee when you're very used to it makes you feel like shit.

Your doctor and your therapist just might know better than you.

Pfffffttt, just because they have medical degrees and all doesn't mean they know me. I know coffee is fine for me because I like coffee a lot and don't want to give it up so clearly the doctors are wrong.

My husband recently stopped drinking Pepsi maybe about two months ago. He sleeps a lot better now and the slight anxiety he used to have has completely disappeared. He's pretty sure that it was the caffeine that was affecting him.

So there might be something to it.

I know there's logic to my doctor and counselor's advice (as witnessed by how cutting caffeine helped your husband!) but the situation is different for me. I don't have slight anxiety, I have generalized anxiety disorder. I wish dealing with it would be as easy as not consuming any caffeine. I've also had a lot of anxiety and difficulty sleeping since high school, long before I started drinking coffee. In my case the positive benefits coffee gives me(being able to function in the day and not feel miserable) far outweighs the negative. People always seem to think caffeine = bad. But in my case it isn't.

The best way to shut them up (but it's uncomfortable) is to prove it. Once, I went off it for a month. By the end of it they were BEGGING me to get back on it. Another time, after an argument that it was bad for my heart I got out the cuff and measured my blood pressure before and after a cup so they could see that it went from stupidly love to normal.
Sure, now they joke about my addiction to it or that I need 'a hot cup of heart medicine' but at least nobody's trying to make me stop anymore.
Good luck.

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