Surely this is how a healthy human is supposed to live.

My understanding is that caffeine doesn't give you energy but instead blocks the sense of tiredness.

Basically carbs and fat give you energy, if we’re talking the literal term. I think protein does too but it’s less.

But stimulants do unlock mental resources. I believe caffeine induces a fight or flight state (what I’ve heard; haven’t studied this), one aspect of which is the body decides to make more energy available at the cost of faster breakdown.

Dopaminergic stimulants give your body the sense it’s pursuing something important. So the same zap of released resources called “motivation” that you’d get if you suddenly realized your favorite person in the world is outside, you can also get by taking adderall or cocaine.
- Only if you take it once though. If you drink coffe regularly, you only get withdrawal symptoms if you have none instead. Coffeine has no stimulating effect if taken regularly.

You're dependent on caffeine, you get withdrawal symptoms if you have none.

This is why I use cocaine and Adderall instead.
- Caffeine gives me FAR worse withdrawal symptoms than my prescription Adderall. Caffeine also just really fucks me up in general, I think I have a caffeine sensitivity or something or maybe it's just the GAD I have. The worst part is I really like caffeinated drinks and I convince myself "the caffeine won't be bad" and chug a monster or coffee or something, then I feel extremely high stress like I'm on the verge of a stroke for the next few hours lol
  
  Also caffeine destroys my sleep more than my brain alone already does
- How's the court cases coming Donnie?

Caffeine is fine as long as you stretch often to keep arteries open, and sleep 12 hours a day.

4 hrs mostly, 6 hrs max.

Sleep is for the dead, permanently disabled, or "retired".

My pending heart attack is looking real fucking relaxing. Hopefully permanent.
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Isn't 12 hrs a bit overkill?
- You're making your heart work harder. You also need to rest harder as a result, to avoid accumulating damage. There is a lot of interpersonal variance, though, with different bodies and genetics.
  
  300mg is a lot of caffeine, mind you.

I'm in this photo and I don't like it 😂

Typical ADHD reaction.

I need my brain to jitter; not my body. 😬

I don't need you calling out my 2:00 AM Tuesday ritual.

Weightloss pills!

Lightweights lol. Anyway I'm not getting any thinking dinner unless my caffeine to blood ratio is at least 2:1.

Life of IT.

2 hours? That sounds marvelous! Right now I get all caffeinated and then tether myself to a headset for 8 hours lol

That's why I made my work buy me a wireless headset.

That way when I'm locked in a 5 hour call for something I have no input on or care about I can at least get up and make myself a few cups of coffee
- Do you ever have to note or recall information afterwards? Because for me it wouldn't be the sitting in a call for 5 hours part that would be the problem, it would be someone asking me to tell them anything that happened in it that would be the problem. I couldn't even tell you who was in it
- locked in a 5 hour call for something I have no input on or care about
  
  You are living my nightmare.
- now wander the space with a golf club or baseball bat
- What headset are you using? I've got a big ass nose cancelling headset I use on my personal computer, but it's a bit much for work - especially since I have to be on camera occasionally.
- So you're telling me there's are jobs where i don't have to do anything for 5 hours at a time?
- At that point I unplug my headphones and let the speakers do it so I can wander the room and not be literally tied down.
- They won't give us wireless ones unless there's some kind of medical exception... The managers get them but we don't. I would buy my own but every time I try to use any of my own equipment IT freaks the fuck out about it
lol

I see your caffeine and raise with amphetamines.

For the ADHD crowd this is often literally how it works.

No stimulants? My restless leg will shake this whole building down. With stimulants? I can sit there at my desk, happy as a clam.

it's interesting seeing a bunch of anxious people go exacerbate anxiety with caffeine. so many fuckin annoying encounters

Yeah they really should be on Adderall like a fucking adult.
- Adderall is so much more chill than caffeine

I just got to the dentist after having too much coffee, so this definitely tracks

He makes your gums bleed, so you attack back with coffee breath. Nice!
- My dentist is honestly awesome and good at not doing that or poking where it hurts. It's why I drive 2 hours one way for these appointments.

I read this mid sip of coffee at my workststion.

i'll admit to almost spitting out my energy drink snorting

Honestly for the best. Without my trifecta of amph+caffeine+nicotine (vape ofc smoking is eww and unhealthy) I don't think I'd bother getting out of bed but that's just an ADHD moment.

Sounds like a plan. Jacking up your heart rate and increasing your blood pressure aren’t great things to do before you start rigorous activities.

Try 400 and just stand around gawking

Or just...don't,?

Ffs grow up and find some self control people.

The amount of people addicted to caffeine who don't even know it is crazy high.

The costs of withdrawing for some are higher than others, so for these people quitting isn't just a day or two of headaches, and possibly their life doesn't afford them the luxury of going through the pain and low productivity

Many factors play into it rather than just low self control, in case you're wondering why you got down voted.
- Also self control is not a fun thing to think about.
You just put so many psychiatrists out of business
Self control is a road to many abilities, some of which are considered unnatural, such as not drinking coffee. My personal favorite is to connect to points in space time together, to create a hole to crawl from one side to the other, for example, to connect the university of Tubingen and Boulogne-sur-Mer.