Caffeine and Anxiety | Here's What You Need to Know
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Are you kiddin'? This one video on caffeine and also your caffeine free challenge has saved my life dude! It made me stop and think and forced me to make some needed changes in my life regarding caffeine. Much love to you Scott!
Depression to Expression hey man I need to hook with you and talk. I’m a new subscriber I Suffer with anxiety every day. Coffee make it’s hard for me to Breith
This is just superb, I been tryin to find out about "how to calm down during a panic attack" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Wanatthew Janlizabeth Eradicator - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my mate got great results with it.
Caffeine does nothing but increase susceptibility to my stress and anxiety.
Most of my worst anxiety attacks were after consuming two or three cups of coffee. I'm way to sensitive to caffeine.
Christopher Merritt me too ! I'm currently struggling with this rn and need to let go of coffee but it's so hard );
Christopher Merritt Adhd people need somekind of stimulate.
why drink 3 cups? if your that sensitive to it 1 cup should do it
Same but I still can't quit.
I love tea, but found out it has caffeine, and is causes panick attacks. That, and processed food, allergy meds, and serotonin pills, and melatonin pills, and gummies. Please avoid these at all costs, and only take medication if it is needed.
for me caffeine doesn't really wake me up it just makes my heart beat really fast and gives me anxiety.
Ikr
Same i drank 4 bottles of mtndew and i have really hard anxiety...😫😓
It's me rn just after 1 cup of coffee
Same here! And it’s funny how I still drink it every day 🤦♂️
Same feel like dying. Might quit soon
I quit caffeine like 4 years ago, best decision of my life.
Im glad for you and i have a question if you dont mind..
Im about 50 days caffeine free.. did you feel better and better even after month 3 4 and 5? Or after 2 months that was it and didnt feel any different after that?
@@HebrewMadeEasy even im not the person saying that statement, but quitting caffeine reduced my panic attacks, but today i started to drink again, and now im having a hard time (conclusion, just stop drinking coffee)
Compass nice joke
It makes me feel good at i have hard days without i need it but good for you
Why
What you said in this video makes perfect sense.
I had a panic attack earlier because I drank a coffee whilst cycling along my local cycle path, then I got stopped by a woman in a kiosk who was asking me to sign up for a charity. As soon as she started speaking to me the panic attack started (I already have social anxiety, coffee makes it far worse). I just wanted to carry on cycling, but she had started a conversation, and it feels rude to ignore her. So I stopped and spoke to her for 15 mins. The panic attack went on for about ten mins, then it started to dissipate. I was certain that she could notice that I was having a panic attack, which made it worse. It was like I couldn't breathe or talk properly, and I just wanted to escape the situation. The last five minutes were much easier as the panic had begun to fade away.
If the exact same situation happened, without coffee, then I would have felt a bit shy and uneasy speaking to her, but would not have had a panic attack. My anxiety rating with coffee was about 7 out of ten, without coffee it would have been more like 2 or maybe 3 out of ten.
Things that seem to work REALLY well for me to beat SOCIAL ANXIETY and ANXIETY, IN GENERAL, are being caffeine-free, having a healthy sleep pattern, a healthy diet, regular exercise (cycling works for me), sunlight exposure, and remaining 100% sober. (In the past I've drunk and used various drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy which exacerbate anxiety by 100%! I would seriously not suggest using stimulant drugs and/or alcohol if you are prone to anxiety/depression). And also, one of THE BEST THINGS is NOFAP (I won't go into details, I'm sure most people know what NOFAP is).
With all of these things combined, my anxiety seems to completely disappear, and that's no exaggeration! I have most of them in order at the moment, aside from the NOFAP and caffeine consumption, but as of today's panic attack, I will now get these final two bad habits in order.
Sorry for the essay, I think it helps to be brutally honest and to share and learn from people's experiences. That way we can evolve and better ourselves.
Anxiety can be overcome, and that's a fact. It's simply about eliminating our bad habits! UA-cam is a great platform for advice when it comes to anxiety and mental illness (if used correctly).
All the best, kind regards, Damos Marcellos Bervoets, ciao.
Thx bro i can relate , i just trippin of the bean 😂
Thanks for advices, I'm looking to apply them on my situation👍
I quit coffee and guess what? Anxiety is at all times low! I have way more constant energy levels trough enitre day)
im getting anxiety with tea, im going to give it up
Entrepreneur it makes my body shake and feel fidgety. It also raises my heart beat and it just causes me anxiety and the only good part about coffee is the fact that it tastes wonderful, and that it makes me awake when I wake up. I always feel tired in the mornings and I always feel kinda emotionless. So, coffee makes me overall happy and positive and ready to move. I will be depressed all day when I wake up unhappy (which is like everyday)
Great to here! I recently noticed a massive increase in my anxiety and blood pressure so I took a good look at my daily caffeine intake which is through the roof. 3-4 large cups of extra strength coffee,green tea capsules and occasionally a pre workout.
I quit coffee for ages. I started again recently. I don't feel more energetic, and I get anxiety/dread feelings occasionally. I should really quit this stuff.
@@paulflint6254 tea has more caffeine then coffee
Honestly, caffeine can make anxiety bigger if you're already anxious. Or when you drink too much at once, overdose, then having it mixed with shivering of anxiety you feel like more anxious overall.
+Sztermel my experience exaactly
i quit caffeine, less anxious, but exercise is needed too. i used to drink tea often in the day, but im more energetic now than i was then.
Hey this helped me a lot bc ive had really bad anxiety and my friend wanted me to pull an all nighter so i drank coffee and i went to bed at abt 7:30am and i woke up a 9am with rapid heart rate, shaking, and overwhelming anxiety feeling. Still happening as we speak but it has gone down a little but im still anxious. Glad to know im not alone
I'm literally shaking right now from the coffee I just drank. It's hard to even write this, and I don't know what to do.
SirLevi don’t grind more in the future?
SirLevi omg same
The problem is that caffeine can become addictive with time, and the symptoms could increase
When that happens, eat something, even if you don’t feel like it.
Eat and drink plenty of pure water. Do this to dilute the caffeine and get it out of your system.
I get horrible anxiety episodes after a single cup of coffee so I try my best and make sure I get rid of it ASAP.
Wendy you look so beautiful in this profile, I think drinking water is helping you in many ways, maybe I'm not drinking water as I should and drinking 5 cups of coffee instead 😆
I quit coffee and a week later, my anxiety went away, I don't get tired any longer, cuz I drink 6 bottles of water instead of 2 bottles of water and 4 cups coffee. I removed all sugary substances from my diet and cut down on dairy products by 2/3 %. NOW I FEEL GREAT... MORE ENERGETIC
Narresh Ramdayal you mean you drink only 4 cups of coffee and you feel good or you stopped drinking the coffee entirely ?
how did you replace the sugar that you quit from your diet? fruits?
Do you still smoke sativa
when I drink coffee I feel like how I'm feeling nowwww which is a circle of emotions which overwhelms me like crazy.. I'm not even sure how to explain it.. I just want to go in a corner and cry.... like I can't understand what is happening..
i understood you i had the same feelings before ,i feel like I'm thinking about everything and trying to control everything and the worse is when you have a day off means no work or school and i drink the same amount of coffee i feel like I'm going crazy in my head ,my brain thinking with no stop
Caffine = major anxiety for me. I miss the morning ritual for sure.
Take Rhodiola in the morning.
I’m on a month with no caffeine of any sorts... chocolate, coffee or soda. I suffer from sever anxiety and panic disorder and this has helped me get a better sleep at night. I fall asleep much quicker and stay asleep longer. I actually get up earlier as well. Before I quit caffeine I would drink a Starbucks coffee at 12pm and be up tell 3 am in the morning with high levels of anxiety and panic attacks. I’m not going to say is completely go rid of my anxiety but it most certainly helped a lot! Short story: I was coming home on a plane from visiting my mother in California. I drank two cups of Starbucks coffee at 8 am, and didn’t eat anything. My left eye didn’t stop twitching tell the next day.
Do you have instagram?
Hey this helped me a lot bc ive had really bad anxiety and my friend wanted me to pull an all nighter so i drank coffee and i went to bed at abt 7:30am and i woke up a 9am with rapid heart rate, shaking, and overwhelming anxiety feeling. Still happening as we speak but it has gone down a little but im still anxious. Glad to know im not alone
This video is giving me anxiety 😂
Fr lol
Caffeine makes me physically shake/vibrate. Unfortunately I'm hugely addicted to caffeine, downing soft drinks and coffee. Cutting them out sounds like a great idea on many levels. Thanks for the video!
I get all jittery when drinking too much coffee. Like I'm nervous can't focus at work.
Vee Delrosario same just try decaff
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just one cup of coffee makes my anxiety worse. I stopped drinking it and I feel much much better, but I love and miss my morning cup of coffee
Little Land Of Lesha switch to decaff
Little Land Of Lesha I want to try decaf so bad because I love coffee but I'm terrified that it will give me a really bad anxiety attack like regular coffee. I had to quit because of how bad my attacks were getting.
Little Land Of Lesha Is there any something serious happened to your body and your brain after you stopped drinking the coffee ?
I'm trying to fight the temptation right now!
Yo this is me right now. I love morning coffee so much, but I get anxiety. It's like this tension in the pit of my stomach, and stress/dread.
It almost killed me when I took a stimulant energy drink called Jack 3D (contained high caffeine dosage) for pre-workout and then I unwittingly took another non-stimulant energy drink (Luzocade Isotonic) an hour later after workout. It caused my heartbeat going crazy after interacting the two energy drinks and then I called ambulance and was hospitalised for two nights. I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder. Never take any stimulants again!
i called once, told me to avoid energy drinks
Yeppp. I took jacked and allllllll my problems started after a few months
Pre workouts
Have several ingredients that cause anxiety and added high amounts of caffeine.
I quit coffee a month ago. I have more energy than ever. I need less sleep. I have less to no anxiety coffee makes me tired. Tea also😁
Caffeine addiction has been a breakthrough for me going at panic attacks. I've been working since I was 13, now 25. As long as I can remember I drank coffee and lately it has been 5-6 cups per day. Panic attack got worse the past few years but two weeks ago I decided to quit coffee. Not cold turkey, because the headache will kill me (seriously, it's not a joke that headache) but I'm now on half the coffee daily, and my body is so much calmer. Some people might know the 'here-we-go-again' feeling, that has been a lot less now. I'm planning to be completely coffee free in two weeks (two cups this week, one cup next week, and the week after that none) and I'm looking forward to it :)
I get worst anxiety from coffee, i actually got some really bad panick attacks from coffee, im a med student and i study very much at night so i need coffee. I actually think my first panick attacks were triggerd because of palpitations from too much coffee and then i got anxiety from fear of panick attacks. I still drink coffee but very weak and only in the morning because my anxiety fucks my sleep really bad, i feel like i dont rest very well, and i think i dont have dreams anymore wich indicates i dont have a deep sleep probably because of the high adrenaline rush in my body from the anxiety. I usually drink coffee when im alone cuz im scared to not get a panic attack when im with someone cuz i ger really ashamed when i feel so needy and sick.
ahhh the fear of panic attacks, such a horrible and ironic cycle!! I understand tho
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The mental alertness which is induced by the caffeine in coffee is enhanced with the addition of CBDa, but also there is a great reduction of the irritable side-effects like anxiety and the jitters that is associated with caffeine that many people experience.
This is the reason why CBDa & Caffeine infused together make a great combination for promoting alertness, focus, energy & productivity without the side-effects like the jitters or caffeine sensitivity. It is also great for alleviating inflammation & pain etc.
This video just helped stop a horrible anxiety attack. Thank you so much
Hey this helped me a lot bc ive had really bad anxiety and my friend wanted me to pull an all nighter so i drank coffee and i went to bed at abt 7:30am and i woke up a 9am with rapid heart rate, shaking, and overwhelming anxiety feeling. Still happening as we speak but it has gone down a little but im still anxious. Glad to know im not alone
I used to be able to drink coffee, but since I developed an anxiety disorder now a cup of regular coffee triggers panic/anxiety symptoms about 80% of the time...basically I've started drinking tea instead
I’d rather give up caffeine and be tired than feeling anxious
Me too! I drank Espresso today and I am done! I just spent 4 hours doing nothing, I have felt paralyzing anxiety all day. I QUIT. Today is the last day I will ever have caffeine.
We have 11,000 people subscribed to this channel! hahaha.. psyck! It's actually 300,000. Love that.
I love this video! You are me! And I never meet people who are sooo affected by caffeine. Like 8hrs AT LEAST i'm feeling that shit. Have a coffee past 7pm and I'm probably not sleeping til 7am. I drink decaf and even that's too much most of the time. Regular coffee makes my heart thump so hard I wanna be sedated. It's terrifying sometimes. I try to quit and do for a while, but it's just so damn useful sometimes to be able to rip around for hours getting things done. It's just then the things are done.. and now what do we do with the next 4 hours of caffeine high?
Anyway, thanks for the video! Makes me feel a little less kookoo.. :)
I cut it out cold turkey I'm on day 9 and finally starting to relax. My sleep sucked had weird dreams got nervous about my health and you known anxiety stuff but again I think that was my body detoxify one night I even had sweets heart rate go up and blood pressure. after day 7 I was starting to feel good with mild mood swings like sad happy fear so if your on hear reading this just know that all that stuff is normal don't freak out. It's a legal drug plus think about how much money we spend on energy drinks alone... I have Hurd of some people quitting slowly too.
Hey this helped me a lot bc ive had really bad anxiety and my friend wanted me to pull an all nighter so i drank coffee and i went to bed at abt 7:30am and i woke up a 9am with rapid heart rate, shaking, and overwhelming anxiety feeling. Still happening as we speak but it has gone down a little but im still anxious. Glad to know im not alone
coffee/caffeine gave me anxiety and depression, i detoxed myself and feeling much better, and my focus/cognitive abilities are wayy better
Absolutely true. Coffee also gets the cortisol/adrenaline up and nerves go crazy. Any stimulant will do the same on our anxiety: chocolate, sugar, energy drinks etc.
Today I had a big cup of coffee and after two hours per say I thought I was about to have a heart attack. My heart rates were going up and the scary thing was I had a smart watch and I was watching my rates go up fast while sitting and doing nothing. I felt a lil bit of pain in my chest and my asthma was triggered which freaked the hell out of me!!! I was away from home at the time and had to drive back in case something happened and while driving (I know it was a bad decision to drive) and as I got close to home my dizzy spells kicked in and had to stop til things cooled down.
Btw, I have been diagnosed with anxiety a year ago and have been off caffeine ever since. Guess I will never drink anything with caffeine (I did today cuz I thought I could hnadle it and I used to be a coffee freak). Anxiety is not to be taken lightly, the symptoms are frightening.
Coffee really affects me as well. I started drinking it after a while of giving it up but I realized that my anxiety symptoms rocketed. I gave it up again and I’m feeling way better!
Tea gives me more energy because of caffeine and sometimes i feel anxiety !! Now i will quit it completely.
Coffee + anxiety = 🖕☠️👀
Little bit of alcohol (or weed) + anxiety = 👍
Great video, man. And I love that you keep an open mind to the issue instead of dropping a hard "caffeine is bad for you, guys, stop taking it".
Personally, I would agree. I love coffee and pre-workouts and anything heavy in stimulants, but I pay a high price for that. I let it get to the point where I needed around 800mg in a serving to get a noticeable reaction. There's no question in my mind that it has worsened my anxiety and OCD, and so I've recently been cutting out all the "random" caffeine. No more morning cups of coffee or social cups of coffee, etc. Just 200mg before training, and even that may change soon.
Once a drank a mid-size cup of Starbucks. About an 1 hour later, I got an anxiety attack while on the freeway driving my dad's car. It got so bad I almost threw up in a car that wasn't mine, in the middle of rush hour, with my crush right next to me. WORST DAY OF MY LIFE EVER!
I never had anxiety until about 3 years ago and I think it’s because of the insane amount of coffee I’ve had since then vs before when I barely ever had it.
This guy is so funny the way he explains stuff but he is true and honest which is cool and well respected and well educated thanks for telling us all man and true is everyone is different there’s billions of people in the world not everyone is the same so it’s hard to relate sometimes .
Coffee used to make me feel alot less anxiety for years but now it makes me feel more anxiety. It's weird
StoneBrain The same has happened ro me.
dopamine depletion, dopamine tolerance adrenal overstimulation and fucked up adenosine receptors. chech your sleep quality, just give up for 2-3 weeks and use sulbutiamine + NAC 600 3 times a day titrate it up to 3600 3 times a day and you are a new born baby again start your coffee from there. memantine will be better for dopamine tolerance btw if you can achieve it.
Because of addiction to coffee
StoneBrain your body got used to it!! same with me
Same here, had to switch to one caffeinated coffee in the morning and decaf the rest of the day. How is it going for you 4 years on?
Caffeine worsens my anxiety by A LOT. I'm so sensitive to caffeine that I can't even have decaf. It's crazy! I feel that it really messes with my mind, my brain function, that I can't control my thoughts or calm down when I have caffeine in my system. I learned the hard way :( although I'm glad I realized that it is the main cause of me experiencing anxiety at its worst, it's good to know that I'm not crazy after all 😂caffeine is to blame.
oh my god I'm so fucking tired right now I actually said bless you when he sneezed at 1:25
Coffee used to feel like my savior, I drank it everyday and I never had a problem with it, only good times. However, the first time I had some bad panic attacks which weren't even caffeine related, I developed an anxiety disorder. And now if I try to have coffee even in small amount it increases my anxious feelings that I never used to have. But I really miss coffee
I would never drink it while already feeling anxious but when i'm calm and just feeling down and lazy and not really in a social mood having a moderate amount can definitely help lift me up and brighten my mood. Sometimes it really helps a lot with that
I have been watching your videos since you used to have 300 around views ,,, its great to see that anxiety and depression is going towards awareness ,,, godspeed to you bro
+jessse pinkman Thank you so much for sticking around :)
Thank you a lot for this video. I haven't had coffee in over 5 months because I was having anxiety attacks every single day. I'm in college and decided to have 3 sips of coffee today just to keep me going, and now I'm having the worst anxiety attack in over a year. It helps that someone can tell me I'm not having a heart attack but that it's just the coffee doing things that are making me feel terrible.
Hey this helped me a lot bc ive had really bad anxiety and my friend wanted me to pull an all nighter so i drank coffee and i went to bed at abt 7:30am and i woke up a 9am with rapid heart rate, shaking, and overwhelming anxiety feeling. Still happening as we speak but it has gone down a little but im still anxious. Glad to know im not alone
@@gisele_oumava2580 caffeine and lack of sleep will definitely give you that feeling. I’m sorry you’re going through that but rest assured it’ll soon pass. get some nice sleep when you can and take care of yourself friend
@@Hello.Arizona Thank you, i felt so alone and i got so scares but seeing this helps me breathe a little easier, hopefully later i can get some more sleep 🙂
I have heard of people having withdrawal symptoms from caffeine for up to 5 months (some weeks are okay, some weeks are bad). If you are within that 5 month period of quitting and happen to have an anxiety attack, it is probably how your body is reacting to withdrawal. Attempting to quit soon for the 3rd time..
Drinking coffee on top of feeling anxious, for me, definitely makes the symptoms worse! It gives me shivers and my hands shake; also (like you said) it makes me more alert and my heart pounds! I'm definitely going to try and cut down, hopefully I'll see an improvement! :)
Mummamia9564 I'm the same exact way. Caffeine just makes my anxiety worse.
I was diagnosed with panic disorder whatever the hell that means per say but when I drink coffee and actually physically hurts me and makes me feel like I’m going crazy like a panic attack I wish they could figure out what the hell causes the anxiety and our chemical make up so we can turn it off lol.
drink strong Coffee with no sugar
@@M--oy1pe it's the caffeine.
I don’t suffer from Anxiety but I have noticed that I am sensitive to caffeine. Almost every time I have caffeine I feel a large amount of anxiety fill my body and it sucks. The best example I can give on how it feels for me is when I’m watching a scary movie and I know something bad is about to happen or something is going to jump at the screen and scare me. I feel this for a few hours usually until it slowly dissipates. Not sure why this happens but definitely not a fun experience.
Hey this helped me a lot bc ive had really bad anxiety and my friend wanted me to pull an all nighter so i drank coffee and i went to bed at abt 7:30am and i woke up a 9am with rapid heart rate, shaking, and overwhelming anxiety feeling. Still happening as we speak but it has gone down a little but im still anxious. Glad to know im not alone
I suffer from anxiety and depression. YOU ARE RIGHT ON BROTHER! i find though that the anxiety, depression and stress make me tired so you resort to it. :(
I’m on day 5 and I feel amazing the only downside is cramping in lower back? And cramps? Idk if that’s related to quitting caffeine but idk what else it would be maybe it’s all the toxins being detoxed from my body. But other than that I feel more energetic, depression & anxiety gone!!! Better sleep etc. I can only imagine how I’ll feel as the days go on 🙃
Hello! Can i ask what made you give up coffee or caffeine? And how long have you beem consuming it and how much?
Thank you so much. I have been looking for a video and a channel like this one to help me get through my anxiety attacks.
Personally, caffeine does me no good at all. I drink barely any decaf and I even cut out things like chocolate that sometimes trigger anxiety too. Most times, if I do have caffeine, I pay the price later in the day (or at night) when I cannot concentrate and feel awfully nauseated. Those of you who can still have your coffee, I worship you and I don't know how you do it.
Also, I just wanted to say that your videos are SO Canadian. ;) And, as a fun fact, that Tim Hortons does not make any of their specialty coffees (like mokas and cappuccinos and whatnot) decaf. Which frustrates me, because I love Tim Hortons.
ive been struggling with severe anxiety and ptsd. I drink too much Mt Dew, and ive wondered if the caffirene is making me worse. Im going to cut it all out and see if this helps.
"11 thousand people subscribed to this channel" now 4 years later you've got 277k that's a huge increase congrats man!
Coffee makes me everything I wish I was for an hour, and then everything I wish I wasn't for the next 4.
first hour feels amazing and then it hits you hard the next hours. it's kind like you run out of that dopamine hit and you left facing the adrenaline and cortisol raise
for me it just depends where my anxiety is at. For example if I'm having a great week/month I know my body and I can have coffee no problem. If I'm going through a bad week I will steer clear because it will def cause some kind of panic attack
When I drink coffee at night, I end up doing things until about 3 in the morning simply because I do not feel tired.
When I drink coffee in the morning/mid day, I feel incredibly anxious and as I already have anxiety (quite a bad case actually, I flex my abdomen almost all the time, I clench my fists when walking, I flex my calves while walking, I just look anxious, people will even tell me), but when I do drink coffee I feel very nervous for no reason. I anticipate all of my moves. For example in class I needed a stapler so I mentally prepared to grab the stapler, for whatever reason, I felt like all eyes were on me and I rushed back to my desk looking down. This is under the effects of caffeine by the way. Even when I drink a coffee after school to work on homework, I simply can't focus, I feel like throwing up and I end up going outside and doing some physical activities like riding something with wheels does not matter what it is. Overall I only drink coffee for the taste and not the energy boost but for some reason the effects are extreme and not at all mild. With every pulse I feel in my chest it feels like my heart is preparing to fall into my intestines.
I stayed away from coffee ☕ since my anxiety got really bad. I didn't feel any better so I said.. Screw it I like it so I'm going to drink it. Maybe the dopamine, and alertness but it makes me feel better 🤷♂️
When I drink coffee or anything similar, I start having worse symptoms of anxiety, like shaking, nervousness, fast heart rate, loss of balance and vertigo when walking, trouble finding words when talking to strangers....
Same
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I haven't drank caffeine in over 7 months because the last time I did it triggered a brutal panic attack
Today i just figured out caffeine is triggering my anxiety. I don't take meds or go to therapy do to not having a job at moment and no having health insurance. I kept thinking i was having a heart attack or heart problems. Come to find out it was my anxiety coming with vengeance. Then today i had one those Starbucks coffee things in glass bottle. 15 minutes later boom anxiety attack. This video helped me out alot to figure this out. Thanks for posting this.
omg! THIS!! Makes perfect sense to me. I have bad anxiety when it comes to driving already. always have. On top of the anxiety i always feel like i need lots of caffeine before i go driving to stay awake. never thought about this until i noticed how bad i was shaking while pumping gas and my husband noticed too. it just made it 10 times worse. definitely going to limit my caffeine before driving and in general. just sticking to a coffee once a day. thank you!!!
11 years ago the little voice in my head said if you never drink coffee again you will be a happy man. I don’t listen. I’ve had migraines or nervous system shut down about one a month for a year and a half. Comes with severe muscle cramping and vomiting that last 24hrs and than I’m fine. So this is why I’m at this video and I haven’t had coffee for a week today.
Just a short little personal experience. Proving that among other things coffee makes you stupid.
Great video
Thanks
Caffeine makes me very anxious, I feel the effects the same day when I drink an espresso in the morning. unfortunately I have a very crazy week schedule, work school and long commute, so I need something to keep me alert during the day. I've tried Matcha for a few months instead and I liked it. What do you think about Matcha? it's still has caffeine in it, but I've read it's less harmful.
If I drink coffee it makes me alert, my anxiety goes up, gives me energy. I only drink coffee once in a while in the morning because of the affects it has on me. I've also been trying to cut out soda and other sugary drinks because of the caffeine and all of the sugar. Great video Scott!
I gave up caffeine last summer because of my anxiety and I coudnt have made a better choice! My anxiety levels have plunged and I also enjoy falling into a deeper sleep faster and waking up more refreshed!
This explains it. Am sensitive to caffeine , makes me jittery, have raced heart palpitations post a cup. I feel energy crash post the sudden high in energy. I quit coffee altogether. The next time 8 crave coffee. All I do is just smell a few beans and am good to go ..
I had to give up coffee. I drank it for 4 years daily. got to a point (before I developed anxiety) where I was drinking two double shots on top of my regular cup. that lasted 2 days until I had my very first panic attack. ever since that initial panic attack I have had anxiety. it was very very debilitating in the begining. I tried zoloft which landed to me in the hospital. then tried therapy. which helped tried all natural ways vitamins and supplements don't know if that helped. and now I just do nothing. I get anxiety many once a month or once every other month. but needless to say I no longer drink coffee and feel SO MUCH BETTER. I wake up in the morning and feel ok. I am finally to a point where I can drink a soda and not have anxiety from it.
So what's strange is I drink coffee everyday no more than three cups a morning 4 probably 15 years then all the sudden there were days I thought I was having a heart attack after that my whole body would start pulsating. Start feeling impending doom and I didn't think it was the coffee so I went to the doctor come to find out I suffer from anxiety and panic a panic disorder one small cup of coffee will destroy me for two days straight I won't be able to sleep I'm not alert I'm exhausted but my body won't stop having nervous tics muscles start to Twitch throughout the night and my heart races turn 48 hours off and on but if I don't touch coffee my anxiety and panic attacks are not as bad I'm so glad to come across this video it makes me feel a lot better because doctors couldn't explain it
I have Health Anxiety- and am in mourning for my Late Husband- I had been doing relatively well- but i kept increasing my Caffeine dosage and had started using Espresso in my Coffee machine , every morning. Well, after a week or so of things triggering me and my Anxiety going through the ROOF, I realized that it might be a good idea to cut down on the Espresso- maybe going to a Dark Roast Coffee instead- and ( I only drink Coffee in the morning) limiting myself to one cup. Will see how things go.
Ive tried it. Coffee def increases my anxiety by giving me the same symptoms of anxiety..yikes! I love coffee
Thanks...for some reason I needed this confirmed by youtube...
i totally quit it when i had my episodes of anxiety attacks and it's proven to lessen it...
I have anxiety I know I shoul quit coffee but I really don't want to😭 I started to drink coffee 10 years ago and it's like the best thing ever happened to me. Even the smell makes me feel good.
From what I am reading, I guess I should quit... but I love my one mild cup on mornings
Perhaps I'm going to be the anomaly for your 11,000 focus group (and for that, I apologise) but coffee actually stops me feeling as anxious.
I think it may be ritualistic. If I know I have a massive amount of work to do or stressful meetings, I have a coffee when I first get to my office and it gives me five minutes to just think about the day and what is to come. After that five minutes I start to feel the caffeine buzz and that gives me enough to rise to the challenges.
Perhaps this is because us Brits are big tea drinkers (I do not partake) that drinking coffee has become associated with my working life/career.
In answer to your question, coffee does not make me feel less anxious, but it certainly does not make me feel more so.
+SydneyKav AWESOME!
SydneyKav i think it depends on tbe persons nervous system.
SydneyKav thanks for sharing. When I was a Taxi Driver I had to drive 12 hour shifts 6 days a week. One mistake and you're dead! Or someone else is.
Consuming caffeine was a no brainer. Eventually I suspect that my body shifted to being AWAKE no matter how tired I was.
If you DO change jobs or no longer need caffeine to survive, literally, don't let it become a permanent friend.
There will be times when that culprit, caffeine, might blind you to the cause of anxiety. It is easy enough to blame something else, especially with the positive associations we form with the drug.
Coffee is great! Cheap, plentiful, etc.
Just keep a cautious eye on it. Especially if you notice symptoms like increased heart rate, darker urine, and irritability.
I hope your hard work pays off...cheers!
I have been having really bad anxiety for the past couple of years. After reading the comment section, i now know that it has been indeed, coffee that made me this way. It makes me feel good to make it and drink it, but never thought that it was the cause of my stress. Going to hopefully cut it out of my life. I'm too young to be this anxious
Watching this vid right now because the single cup of coffee I had at 11am is still giving me a bit of jitters and keeping me up (it’s 1:30am as of writing this).
I use to be able to drink a ton of soda but now it just makes me feel so shaky and nervous and terrible.Ive just been drinking water for ever now since I started having anxiety.I know soda isn't good for you but I would like to enjoy a soda from time to time.
I wished I knew this before I passed out at school...
Caffeine use to be nice. When I had a mental breakdown, certain foods became triggers, such as coffee, pop, certain tea (matcha). It makes anxiety worse. Not sure if I can help depression if I am anxious. So I had to cut out caffeine. My body doesn’t react to it the same.
19, 27 hour work weeks, attending high school.
Usually I wake up 640, fix breakfast, and leave to school 715. Usually come home 240, and go to work at 330. Come home 840 and do homework till 10 ish.
The point is, is that I was dependant on coffee for the first month, constantly moving around and getting some serious rings. So naturally, I turned to caffeine. However I began crashing slowly, because it somehow takes me longer to metabolize caffeine. Being alert is great, however the feeling of anxiety was worsening.
After quitting coffee, it's improved my quality of sleep, however it's a bit harder to finish homework, but it's still getting done. Rings went away though.
Coffee break, medium Americano, usually after school.
For me, caffeine triggers anxiety. That's why I quit drinking coffee.
I just saw this video and i think i understand now all. On monday night i had my first anxiety attack and i didn't know what was it, i couldn't sleep well, only 1 and a half hour. And plus, that day i had a frapuccino coffee and an americano.
Caffeine definitely makes my anxiety worse. Unfortunately I cannot live without it. Not only do I LOVE the smell and taste of coffee... but I tried to quit drinking it and got bad withdrawal symptoms -- terrible migraines, aches and sluggishness. I also could not focus on my studies which are very important to me. So I continue to drink it. However, I only drink small single or double shots of espresso once or twice per day, which actually haa less caffeine than a normal cup of coffee. Since I have social anxiety I also make sure I don't drink it right before a very social situation as it has triggered panic attacks before. Thanks for your videos, they're wonderful! :)
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Fruits throughout the day and exercise first thing in the morning helped me. Naps are good as well as cold water in the shower or splashed on the face.
I have heavy metal poisoning from amalgams that were removed incorrectly, ultimately compounding the problem. I now have immeasurable amounts of Barium in my vital organs (including brain) which is detectable ONLY by a reputable hair sample laboratory. The effects are reversible by chelation. The symptoms of heavy metal poisoning are respiratory complications, high anxiety, panic attacks, anaphylactic type seizures, cardiac arrest, brain fog and impaired vision- these are my experiences with the exception of cardiac arrest. When my system goes into a sleepy, crashing out state. I use coffee to improve my mental and physical alertness- this is a means to an end. Hope this gives depth and insight to an informative and entertaining video 👍
Caffeine makes me shaky and irritable even though I can get all my shit done in like an hour 😅. I feel like all my cells and nerves are vibrating at an uncontrollable speed. I also noticed it affects my brain function as well. Scatterbrained is all I need to say. Ha.
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Anxiety is the energy of excitement interpreted through negative terms. Rather than utilizing it as an alignment, you utilize it as perhaps you can say a form of doubt or lack of trust in the thing that you prefer.
I love strong Coffee with no sugar and it calms me down! Specially when having an anxiety attack. When I’m not anxious it even makes me feel sleepy, never had an explanation for it. Hope it works for a kind of analysis. Also green tea and wine causes me the same effect.
the sugar like always it's the problem, Caffeine increases basal metabolic rate, and if you add sugar, all this calories and energy have a clear track to the nervous system
I have panic attacks on caffeine... in some cases even a small espresso can trigger that...
sometimes it would just increase anxiety a lil bit but I will now pass the panic attack line...
Completely left coffee 2 years ago because of panic attacks and anxiety. Turned out good decision!
I never used caffeine. But I recently discovered caffeinated gum. I can say that it actually helps my anxiety and makes me want to talk more. But I also on do 50mg. Nothing major. I wanna only use it for social events
you're a life saver man this has been very helpful, thank you
Examining the remains of coffee continues to be a common method of predicting peoples’ destiny.Sometimes i drink coffee just to check my destiny and to not feel sleepy.. :) great video!!
Ok I suffer from OCD and anxiety for 5 years. Prior anxiety ocd I loved coffee and I still love it. I cut it out and anxiety ocd was still there. Sometimes even worse due to my current stressful situation of nursing school. I decided I will introduce coffee again to my body but only before my workouts. Stupid anxiety makes you gain weight. So I have coffee in the morning after a good breakfast and before my workouts, to burn it off because if I don’t work out it will be bad. I make sure I drink a lot of water, duh we feel awful when we don’t. If I get jittery which happens sometimes I take a gaba supplement which makes me sleep like a baby. Guys there’s hope with anxiety not all is lost. We just have to find what works for us.
I have anxiety and depression. I take caffeine, l-theanine, rhodiola, siberian ginseng, and I feel amazing. I also do not consume caffeine after 2pm. Caffeine with other stimulants makes me feel anxious and depressed.
Over the last two year's I've noticed drinking coffee fuels my anxiety. I love coffee though, I had to switch to drinking 1 caffeinated coffee in the morning and decaf for the rest of the day. Decaf might not be 100% free of caffeine but it works for me.
I'm quitting tomorrow and going for 30 days! I love your videos and love your soul man!
most stimulants cause anxienty. when I was abusing ritalin in high school I would have bad anxiety when I wasn't high. that is the biggest reason why I quit.
I used to drink coffee a lot, but I replaced it with a herbal tea that consists of both nettle and an Argentinian herb called "Yerba Mate" and the Yerba mate is a really good natural caffeine substitute, which I really do recommend for anyone with health/sleep anxiety.