The good thing is that coffee withdrawals are over quite quickly and don't have long-term effects.
But getting peer pressured into an addiction by one's mom of all people is ironic.
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People doing something in your immediate vicinity, without excluding you or in other ways hinting you have to do the same, are not peer pressuring you. Any obligations you feel to do the thing is entirely caused by your own insecurities.
Well, there is an innate drive to be part of a community baked into our biology. We see people enjoying something, and we want to do it too. It doesn't need to be framed so negatively as being an insecurity, though I wouldn't necessarily frame it as peer pressure, either. It's more just a human desire to share in a new experience with others.
Peer pressure is the sensation of psychological pressure when deviating from peers. It doesn't have to be caused intentionally or through active action, and it's a basic fact of life that at least 95% of humanity experiences. (I can't speak for all forms of neurodiversity).
You literally described peer pressure.
Ok let me rephrase it a little more clearly. There's external peer pressure, and internal peer pressure. What I described in my other comment is a lack of external peer pressure from your surroundings, and your internal peer pressure compelling you to do something. Internal peer pressure is a problem caused by yourself, and you cannot blame that on anyone else.
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More common is getting peer pressured into an ED by your mom
ED?
eating disorder
Oh thank goodness. Here I'm thinking erectile dysfunction.
lmao... my first instinct was to type it out, i figured people shorten it as a sort of trauma filter, knew at least one person would think it was "Erectile Dysfunction" but proceeded nontheless
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Uhhh
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But getting peer pressured into an addiction by one's mom of all people is ironic.
It's one case where I'd argue that the most literal interpretation should apply, dictionary definition be damned. Your authority figures are not your peers.
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There are coffee withdrawals? I drink 2 (weak) coffees a day sometimes 3 and I have multiple times had a week or two without coffee because I forgot. I just drink it for the taste and warmth.
Caffeine dependency is a thing for sure. You'll get some gnarly headaches for a few days and feel fatigued. Takes about 2 weeks to lose it.
It's caffeine withdrawal. I used to get it a lot as a kid. My parents were separated and one of them had caffeinated drinks and one didn't. When I figured out why I was getting headaches, I just stopped drinking anything with caffeine.
Some people are more or less sensitive to caffeine. Going from one coffee a day to zero has me with headaches and tiredness for a day or two.
My dad is an alcoholic and I'm convinced that I've inherited certain vulnerabilities to addiction. I've never had a problem with alcohol, but by God, when I get into a regular full-caf coffee habit, and then I miss one or two cups, the withdrawal symptoms hit me hard. I've been trying to slowly lower my ratio, but it's hard to even contemplate going totally decaf when I've got a retail job and I'm a little scared of trying to deal with customers and withdrawal headaches at the same time.
The way caffeine works is that it allows the body to release energy reserves that it usually "locks" away from you. It allows you to tap into these reserves for concentration and makes you feel less tired.
That's helpful for short-term use, giving you more energy and concentration.
But if you use too much caffeine for too long ("too much" depends on your body and "too long" is a few days), the body adjusts to the caffeine levels and now you have the same energy reserves and concentration that you had without caffeine before. Caffeine thus loses its effect on you and your baseline shifts, so that you need caffeine to be on the same level as before.
If you now stop your caffeine intake, this swings back. Your body thinks you are really tired and you get headaches, bad mood, low concentration and so on, until you either take in more caffeine or you abstain long enough for your baseline to shift back.
That's why there are people who say they can't work before they had their first coffee/energy drink. They literally can't, because if they aren't on the level of caffeine they are used to, their body tells them that they are super exhausted. This is the caffeine dependency/withdrawal effect.
The way caffeine works is that it allows the body to release energy reserves that it usually βlocksβ away from you.
I thought it just blocked the receptors for the chemicals that made us feel sleepy, not tapped into some hidden energy.
Correct - my best ELI5.
When you wake up your body starts producing adenosine, which slowly locks into receptors in your brain. As the day goes on, these receptors fill. By the end of the day your receptors are full which tells you you're tired and need to go to sleep. When you sleep, these receptors clear to start the next day fresh (which is one of the reasons if you don't sleep well, they don't all clear and you start the day tired.)
Caffeine fits these receptor sites, preventing the adenosine from locking in and delaying the onset of fatigue. Caffeine half life is about 5-6 hours, which can lead to the "crash" as the free adenosine starts locking into the receptors the caffeine is now making available as it breaks down.
When caffeine is consumed regularly and the brain isn't detecting the expected adenosine feedback, it responds by creating more receptors. More caffeine is now needed to account for the new receptors. If you skip caffeine with the addition of receptors, the adenosine fills the extra receptors faster and leaves you comparitively more fatigued/with withdrawal symptoms. If you reduce/abstain from caffeine for a few days the extra receptors are reduced and you return to baseline.
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My grandma just made me coffee after I was 10 days clean, and I drank it, since I didn't want it to go to waste...
Now harness that addiction and turn it into a hobby!
To the uninitiated, coffee is a surprisingly deep rabbit hole
Did you know the french invented the espresso? Scholars still debate if the name comes from 'exprès' (as in specially made for you) or 'express' (as in fast).
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Also, it is Espresso in every language except French, where it is called Expresso
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Espresso because you e-presso the fuck out of it.
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This is how I, and everyone I know, started smoking.
Want a break at in work? You can have your legally mandated 15 minutes for every 8 hour shift.
Or you can become a smoker and get <10 minutes of every hour.
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Is "coffee addiction" the new meme? I've been seeing this pop up over and over again across social media.
Conspiracy theory brain goes: This meme trend has to be an attempt at manufacturing consent to reduce caffeine consumption due to rising coffee prices due to climate change. That way when coffee is phased out, it doesn't cause a huge outrage and is just seen as a thing only addicts use and it falls into the same "moral failing" BS as any other addiction because we all need to be "healthier".
I don't think that's it though because there are plenty of energy drink companies trying to pick up former coffee drinkers who are looking for lower cost alternatives.
lower cost alternatives
lol
Once you have the wherewithal to grind your own coffee and acquire a percolator or a French press, a cup of coffee is dirt cheap and only takes like five minutes. Doesn't take -that- long to recoup the costs, either, if you're a regular drinker.
Buying coffee from Starbucks every morning is for suckers.
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I'm reading "The Zoomers are Killing Coffee" headlines in my mind's eye already.
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Caffeine is extremely addictive and the withdrawal symptoms are quite severe.
I haven't noticed this personally. I quit for two weeks a while back and didn't notice any physical symptoms and just missed the ritual.
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Mother: "My addiction, is now hers. She is now truly my child."
Coffee addiction or caffeine dependancy?
Next time mix hot chocolate with the coffee to improve taste! Also get a chocolate addiction
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