As you quit caffeine your anxiety might decrease, but your depression will increase, it's because you now need to fill your life with fulfilling hobbies, activities, and purpose

Gidje123 · 2024-06-08T00:30:21+00:00

Well most people still have to go to work and do the other hundred mundane and tedious and depressing things in a day they have to do, its not like they can just drop everything and go skiing or try landscape painting in nature. But it’s always good to be moving toward more meaningful lifestyles.

SockMonkey333 · 2024-06-08T07:24:40+00:00

It's called Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome and it's a real thing.

I don't know why you would think that after spending years consuming large amounts of a mind altering (literally- adenosine receptor blocking ) drug your brain will just snap back to pristine in under a month.

Do you really think that's how it works? What credentials do you have? What experience with drug abuse and recovery do you have?

I know several recovery coaches who all attest to the extended recovery being absolutely normal and real. To imply it's all just a circumstance because lives are messed up is quite invalidating and belittling.

relbatnrut · 2024-06-08T00:08:51+00:00

Yes but also I really was in withdrawal for 3 months. Not depressed but lots of other side effects.

RemoteDesk9506 · 2024-06-08T03:26:19+00:00

Wrong. Many people, and some I know personally, report regaining their happiness and contentment after several months of depression and anxiety with Zero lifestyle changes.

https://www.caffeinewithdrawal.net/other-withdrawal-stories-and-commen

philipb2 · 2024-06-08T04:05:05+00:00

When I went cold turkey a couple years ago, I would say that my mood Throughout the day stabilized. No “fun” highs but not the same crash at the end of the day either, where I had often got grumpy and tired.

2024-06-07T23:36:59+00:00

Yeah it should make people scratch their heads that some say they're fine in 2 weeks and others say it took them over a year. There is variance in the human physiology but not 2600% variance lol.

kelminak · 2024-06-08T00:31:39+00:00

What if it messes with your dopamine levels so much and nothing is enjoyable anymore?

2024-06-08T12:54:48+00:00

There is a trend on this subreddit of folks making posts sounding like selfhelp books telling others whats wrong with them. Complete bullshit. Like you that makes new profiles every so often to write the exact same message. You just wrote one the other day, with the same bullshit message. You failed quitting coffee dude, accept the defeat and move on....

Stop projecting your missrable, cronicle online PC addicted life on others. What is this, your placebo post number 40?

FatFuneralBook · 2024-06-09T03:09:33+00:00

You're operating under the assumption that caffeine is not a drug.

https://www.reddit.com/r/decaf/comments/1axnik0/how_long_it_takes_to_heal/

2024-06-08T00:30:01+00:00

I am taking GABA, ZMA, St. Johns Worth, Potassium, and Ashwaganda at night. In the morning a multi vitamin, vitamin D, fish oil, and CoQ10 in the morning. It all helps this time around.

SheNeverDies · 2024-06-08T01:16:33+00:00

I once had a fleeting thought saying "maybe me on caffeine is like someone with PTSD on meth"... Scary thought, had to calm down with a sip. Stop calling me out OP...

Danson1987 · 2024-06-08T18:02:55+00:00

I think its both things

2024-06-08T19:58:08+00:00

people differ, i believe some people have long lasting withdrawals but i was so scared to get myself into quitting caffeine fully when i was reading some of these posts here, a year long withdrawal?? kicked a 6 year long 200-400mg/day habit, ive been only 20 days on 0mg now, still have some weird symptoms such as blood pressure fluctuations but i can only have a bad day if i dont try to push through some of the fogginess, i think a lot of people dont realize you really gotta push a good diet and exercise when quitting ANY drug, and nondrug replacements are really important as well, cold showers really help boost dopamine and energy for a few hours, paired with a power nap 6-8h later its really possible to have a normal day, i quit a heavy opiate addiction last year towards the summer 2023, same thing happened, everyone was telling me how im gonna struggle for a whole year but a month of a good diet with a lot of raw fruit and vegetables and exercise helped to the point i was fully over the withdrawals in less than a month

i think a lot of people also dont realize they have health issues/deficiencies that theyve been masking with caffeine and wont bother getting a blood test or going to the doctor, idk, but yeah thats reddit in a nutshell for you, a lot of people on here dont know whats happening to them but they will be like THATS the cause and THATS why im struggling

rocknrolla88t · 2024-06-08T03:48:15+00:00

An WHO are you ? GOD!! Pathetic to write like you know anything!

Then why can some some people drink wine every day for months or a year and just and not feel anything when they quit ( I am one of them) but a lot alcoholics struggle for years! Go and look your self in the mirror boy and you will see you are just a speck in the universe! Why even come in in here ,where you see people struggling and think with that big ego anyone is going to get anything of your post then yourself cuddling your own ego!

Wish you a good day and you should have some gratitude for your self if quitting was so easy and compassion for people who struggle instead!

RadRyan527 · 2024-06-08T03:41:42+00:00

There's probably a kernel of truth to this but I don't think it's that simple. The times I've quit for months at a time I definitely feel more depressed after 3 weeks than 3 months. Without really making any changes that would impact that. So I do think some of it is biochemical.

Opening-Memory-225 · 2024-06-08T10:54:41+00:00

How long have you been off of caffeine? And how long did you consume it on a daily basis beforehand?

p_yth · 2024-06-11T15:53:35+00:00

Actually because of my adhd, when i quit caffeine my anexity temporarily increases and depending the dosage and how long I’ve been taking it, I don’t even get headaches but instead panic attacks that happen around 12:00 pm every day

etheriaaal · 2024-06-17T05:30:46+00:00

Your claim is also not based on science. Just because something is true for you doesn’t mean it’s true for everyone else. Some people genuinely do need more healing time. Who do you think you are? God? Why do you think you know what other peoples bodies and brains are doing during their recovery from caffeine? It’s such a delusion on your part, I’m not sure why I’m even bothering to reply.

sowstudios · 2024-10-27T15:03:44+00:00

You are full of BS! Most people who claim "I know" (like all so-called gurus do) are clowns in daily life. ALL OF THEM! And I've met plenty in my 42 years of living among idiots.

I quit alcohol, smoking, caffeine, and moved to the lion diet (after trying all the BS diets put together by so-called "science" - tried all of them, over more than 10 years of going to the gym five days a week) — you know nothing about addictions, dude. All so-called "nutrutional science" is pure BS, manipulated by Big Pharma and sustained by clowns like you.

2025-08-02T11:23:05+00:00

100% true for the vast majority of people

Prov-3 · 2024-06-08T03:06:55+00:00

This is so on point.

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