What’s your beverage of choice, comrades? I really love espresso or green and white teas, usually an espresso in the morning and tea throughout the day. What do y’all like?
What’s your beverage of choice, comrades? I really love espresso or green and white teas, usually an espresso in the morning and tea throughout the day. What do y’all like?
Caffeine is such a weird fickle thing for me. Depending on what I’m doing it can seriously stimulate me way too much, causing a ton of anxiety. I’ve never had much success with teas unfortunately, because tea seems to be much more gentle (theres some thought that theres other compounds in tea that take the edge off). I just can’t get over the bitterness of teas despite putting in some effort to try to get over it.
I do really like the flavored drinks with mate extract (brewed directly from the leaves its still super bitter for me). I’ve considered buying a jug of extract myself and just making my own mixture to leave in the fridge, but honestly I mostly just accept that I shouldn’t rely on caffeine unless I really a stim.
My ADHD messes with how stimulants work on me, so I basically need it to focus, haha. Tea doesn’t have to be bitter! Try brewing at a lower temperature, some teas can be gentle and sweet!
I have ADHD as well but unfortunately it can still cause me a lot of anxiety. I’m not sure, might be a blood pressure thing? I used to work at a coffee shop so I spent a ton of time trying different teas and seeing ways I could make them more palatable (green tea lattes were pretty good).
Ah, gotcha, sorry to hear that. Might be more of a me thing, then.
No I think that relationship between ADHD and stims is pretty normal. For example, cocaine makes me get really quiet and largely my thoughts turn inward, which is kinda paradoxical to the normal response (and is maybe a good reason I should try ritalin again, as I’m not really a big fan of adderall and I think ritalin is somewhat more similar to cocaine). Like I said I think I’m just an oddball, I’ve definitely talked to a number of other people with ADHD that have leaned on caffeine for help, especially before they were medicated.
Huh, interesting. I used to have “dark thoughts” on nirmal ADHD meds, so I stopped taking them and starting self-medicating with caffeine. No dark thoughts, but sometimes I get anxiety, might not even be related lol. Not as effective as the meds were, sadly.
Thats actually my exact problem with adderall! No matter the dose (obviously higher dose is worse) I get really REALLY grumpy/moody as it wears off. My previous partner was medicated during covid and they worked insane hours as a epidemiologist at the time and while there was a lot going on at the time I was certain that she was getting similar side effects (they ended up increasing their dose over and over as a crummy bandaid to deal with 10-12 hours work days). Now I’m at the point where I don’t want to medicate except when I really feel like what I’m doing warrants it, and even then I often feel like its suboptimal.
Yep, that tracks! Coffee gives me enough focus to function, and the tradeoffs aren’t nearly as bad. Glad things seem to at least be falling into a groove for you!