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Since when are coffee withdrawals so powerful? They've never even been noticeable to me. Since when do you develop coffee dependence (there is no such thing as addiction from coffee afaik) so quickly? I think OP is severly overestimating the dangers of coffee, and meanwhile I'm here drinking it purely for health (especially heart) and cognitive function, not energy.
Depends on the person. I used to get a splitting headache after ~36 hours of not drinking coffee (i.e. sunday mornings) and would be useless for that day until everything was fine again Monday morning for work. Took me a while to realize it was caffeine withdrawal.
At that point I might do a full medical checkup. If it's so easy to get headaches and become "useless" for the day just because of coffee, that sounds like something else is going on in your body that makes you extra suspecible to these things, but I'm no medical professional, it just sounds extreme/rare to me, something worth checking out
I do a coffee detox every Sunday, and can tell you that the brainfog and lethargy is real. In my case, it's 2-3 cups a day Mon-Sat for this effect to occur on Sunday.
If I limit myself to 1 cup of coffee a day, and do the Sunday detox I just generally feel irritable and eat more sweet things to compensate but without any headaches
No, your experience is yours, others have other experiences. We don't all have the same exact reaction to caffeine. Don't project how things affect you on others.
I understand, but coffee is amongst the most consumed things in the world, yet headaches from it is something I don't really hear around, so it's not completely wild or out of the blue to suggest a check-up. Something similar was happening to me with energy drinks 10+ years ago, which was related to my blood pressure.
The headaches are not from coffee, they are from the caffeine withdrawal. Try drinking 5-7 cups of strong coffee per day 5 days a week for an extended time and I'm sure you'll see some kind of withdrawal symptoms on Sundays.
Oh, I thought caffeine is the active ingredient in coffee, and so you consume it, and talk about it, just like when people talk about weed, they talk about THC, even tho still saying weed, but okay.
Anyway, I've done what you told me to do for half of my life, and like I said before - I have not noticed withdrawal symptoms whatsoever.
Folks who drink coffee consistently are likely perpetually dehydrated and get worse sleep on average cuz they use the coffee to counteract the effects of less sleep daily.
Coffee literally hydrates you. The fact that you believe a popular myth makes me assume you don't really understand coffee.
The worse sleep is a fair argument, but coffee drinkers generally live by a golden rule - no coffee 6 hours before bed.
EDIT: Ffs Lemmy, it really isn't that hard to search and learn something new instead of just downvotting.
Caffeine addiction is definitely a real thing and there are real physical withdrawal symptoms associated with it. It's a psychoactive stimulant, why would addiction not be possible? Addiction is just your body adjusting to the constant stimulation, then once that's stopped there's an adjustment period where it needs to regulate your neurotransmitters back up to a normal level.
Medical/clinical addiction normally revolves around hard-to-control cravings (can't stop thinking about it, might get aggressive if prevented from getting it), loss of control, etc. Dependence is essentially making your body used to something, and then having to consume it to feel normal, or feel like shit when you stop consuming it. While addiction and dependence are similar, addiction is far more brutal and hard to quit. By no means coffee is as hard to skip as cigarette, to anyone. If your reaction is "wow, coffee makes my head hurt, I don't want it", that's pretty opposite of addictive substance.
https://www.science.org/content/article/coffee-cravers-are-not-addicts
That's weird, that's the opposite of what I was taught, which was that dependence was a psychological reliance on a drug and addiction was the body's physical response and adjustment to the drug. Doing a quick google it seems like those terms have been switched, likely to take away some of the stigma due to the whole addiction is a disease thing.
Depends on how much caffeine you drink...turns out not everyone is exactly like you. Go figure.