Posted by CliveLack on December 27, 2008, at 14:30:22
In reply to Coffee good or bad in your opinion for anxiety/dep, posted by Phillipa on December 27, 2008, at 12:53:19
For me, it depends. No coffee, and I feel depressed. Small doses give me energy and often turn any anxiety I have into focused energy.
I do suffer occasionally from anxiety, but almost never from coffee (I usually drink two cups in the morning, one in the afternoon). But if I drink more than two cans of pop in a day, or more than four cups of coffee in one sitting, I do get a jittery, queasy feeling.
As a side note, my mom claims to have a completely paradoxical reaction to caffeine--she says that it invariably calms her and does not give her any kind of extra energy. And another side note: a few years ago I coaxed my friend into trying an expresso (she had only drank coffee a coupe times in her life). A half an hour later she had a panic attack (and she had never had one before in her life). She tells me now that even the aroma of brewing coffee sends her heart racing for a few moments.
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