lolFatigue
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I think for me, any sort of caffeine-free, or life without any stimulant is a true hell on earth. But anyway, the following is a random crap brought to you by some random internet fool who randomly signed up for a random coffee forum to post his random rant after screaming at yet another jerk on MSN who recommended that I give up coffee for tea. Yeah right.
First of all, these ridiculous prejudices I've seen against coffee drinkers about how "they'd be able to function perfectly fine without it" are... uhh... lol. What about people who were born out of a genetic cesspool, such as myself, the polar opposite of people running around screaming like brats, with enormous, idiotic grins on their faces? I don't think I can accept that everyone has the good fortune to come into this world being able to function well enough if they stick to healthy diet and exercise. Believe me, I've been there, and I still eat fairly well and exercise. It may sound absurd, but the only perceivable difference for me is improved cognition, skin, and a few other things I won't bother to mention. Doctors laugh at me, my parents and relatives are all hurr-durr, and most of my friends are insane mofos who would try to kill me after a measly sip of caffeine. Everyone thinks I can function without stimulants, but I don't care what they think. What's the worst that can happen? Adrenal fatigue? LOL. What, there's a worse fatigue than being without stimulants? I still have yet to see anybody cite evidence of caffeine causing problems involving the adrenal glands. Aren't they all just mooching ignorance off of each other, kind of like an infinitely branching tree of internet stupidity?
Secondly, according to every self-proclaimed health guru, if I'm not mistaken, it is highly recommended to cap your caffeine intake at somewhere between 200 and 400mg. Apparently statistics hate me, and so I have to intake a minimum of 8-10 cups of coffee a day, each consisting of approximately 130mg of caffeine(instant nescafe), if I want to be without or at least mostly without the perception of fatigue. This is after abstaining, too. The only times I have side effects are when I hit the 20+ cup mark, and that's only occasionally, and usually on the first day or two after abstaining. Sleep onset seems to be kind to me after a day of heavy coffee drinking as well. I've never had withdrawal, or maybe that's just because I always feel shitty without stimulants? Perhaps I'm missing something important, or do most people just blindly believe that we all metabolize caffeine at the same rate as the next guy, therefore everyone is going to have for example, [x/2]mg of caffeine in their system [y] amount of time after consuming [x]mg of caffeine? Every article or study I've read seems like it only applies to people who would rip the door off of a bathroom stall after abstaining, then drinking several times their usual morning cup of coffee. Maybe I should part from my sanity and drink as much as Voltaire was thought to of had(at least 30 cups a day). Or maybe I should educate myself by reading through all 24526 pubmed entries on caffeine so I can start yelling at people about how they're killing themselves too.
I've also been down the nootropic experimentation route, but everything I've tried has been complete garbage as far as I'm concerned. If it's not a "stimulant" like caffeine or ephedrine, I probably can't feel it. Am I killing myself? No. Screwing myself over? Maybe, but so what? I've been this way since I was 11-12 years old, and I'm 21 now. I don't think I can screw myself over anymore than I have, and I can honestly say that I don't believe people when they say that caffeine causes adrenal fatigue, or adrenal deficiency, or whatever they call it nowadays.
Oh shit, it's nearly 6 in the morning! Maybe I should stop drinking so much caffeine so that I can sleep an hour after waking up and have one hour days for the rest of my life, eventually becoming homeless and living on the streets. Cooking wine and as much sleep as I want. In all seriousness, though, If only it weren't such a pain to haul coffee around everywhere with me, and/or run up and down the stairs to make it all day long, I'd probably drink myself to the point of vomiting.
Now am I just very eccentric, or can anyone sympathize at all? Or maybe I'm insane.
First of all, these ridiculous prejudices I've seen against coffee drinkers about how "they'd be able to function perfectly fine without it" are... uhh... lol. What about people who were born out of a genetic cesspool, such as myself, the polar opposite of people running around screaming like brats, with enormous, idiotic grins on their faces? I don't think I can accept that everyone has the good fortune to come into this world being able to function well enough if they stick to healthy diet and exercise. Believe me, I've been there, and I still eat fairly well and exercise. It may sound absurd, but the only perceivable difference for me is improved cognition, skin, and a few other things I won't bother to mention. Doctors laugh at me, my parents and relatives are all hurr-durr, and most of my friends are insane mofos who would try to kill me after a measly sip of caffeine. Everyone thinks I can function without stimulants, but I don't care what they think. What's the worst that can happen? Adrenal fatigue? LOL. What, there's a worse fatigue than being without stimulants? I still have yet to see anybody cite evidence of caffeine causing problems involving the adrenal glands. Aren't they all just mooching ignorance off of each other, kind of like an infinitely branching tree of internet stupidity?
Secondly, according to every self-proclaimed health guru, if I'm not mistaken, it is highly recommended to cap your caffeine intake at somewhere between 200 and 400mg. Apparently statistics hate me, and so I have to intake a minimum of 8-10 cups of coffee a day, each consisting of approximately 130mg of caffeine(instant nescafe), if I want to be without or at least mostly without the perception of fatigue. This is after abstaining, too. The only times I have side effects are when I hit the 20+ cup mark, and that's only occasionally, and usually on the first day or two after abstaining. Sleep onset seems to be kind to me after a day of heavy coffee drinking as well. I've never had withdrawal, or maybe that's just because I always feel shitty without stimulants? Perhaps I'm missing something important, or do most people just blindly believe that we all metabolize caffeine at the same rate as the next guy, therefore everyone is going to have for example, [x/2]mg of caffeine in their system [y] amount of time after consuming [x]mg of caffeine? Every article or study I've read seems like it only applies to people who would rip the door off of a bathroom stall after abstaining, then drinking several times their usual morning cup of coffee. Maybe I should part from my sanity and drink as much as Voltaire was thought to of had(at least 30 cups a day). Or maybe I should educate myself by reading through all 24526 pubmed entries on caffeine so I can start yelling at people about how they're killing themselves too.
I've also been down the nootropic experimentation route, but everything I've tried has been complete garbage as far as I'm concerned. If it's not a "stimulant" like caffeine or ephedrine, I probably can't feel it. Am I killing myself? No. Screwing myself over? Maybe, but so what? I've been this way since I was 11-12 years old, and I'm 21 now. I don't think I can screw myself over anymore than I have, and I can honestly say that I don't believe people when they say that caffeine causes adrenal fatigue, or adrenal deficiency, or whatever they call it nowadays.
Oh shit, it's nearly 6 in the morning! Maybe I should stop drinking so much caffeine so that I can sleep an hour after waking up and have one hour days for the rest of my life, eventually becoming homeless and living on the streets. Cooking wine and as much sleep as I want. In all seriousness, though, If only it weren't such a pain to haul coffee around everywhere with me, and/or run up and down the stairs to make it all day long, I'd probably drink myself to the point of vomiting.
Now am I just very eccentric, or can anyone sympathize at all? Or maybe I'm insane.
