12th March 2011, 08:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 12th March 2011, 08:13 AM by BuntyFlint.)
Something else I thought of, which may sound silly, but if you are depressed and especially if this is coupled with anxiety then really consider the amount of coffee/tea/cola you are drinking. In retrospect a good part of my problem, possibly even a major part of it - the 'mad' feeling - was that my intake of coffee also grew out of proportion (from 2 - 3 mugs of almost expresso strength coffee a day to 6+). At first I liked the extra buzz/giddiness/lift it gave me but, well, I guess it was a proper addiction! There is actually something called 'caffeine psychosis' / 'caffeine induced psychosis' which I really really wish I had known about at the time - [url=http://www.stress-anxiety-depression.org/forum/caffeine-induced-psychosis-topic-70.htmls][/url][I put a link here but it didn't work - you'll just have to google for it!]
Now I still use coffee as a drug, like a lot of the population I can't function without coffee in the morning and it's still funny to drink too much occaisionally, but I have a lot more respect for it's powers!
Now I still use coffee as a drug, like a lot of the population I can't function without coffee in the morning and it's still funny to drink too much occaisionally, but I have a lot more respect for it's powers!