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saint | 22 | terrified | they/them

[notcomingbacks]

sorry if my blog is a mess for a while, i’m clearing my likes n tagging stuff, it’s gunna be,., eclectic 

[teaboot]

Something nobody told me about caffeine is that you can get withdrawal symptoms when you stop taking it

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I went from consuming NO caffeine, to slowly escalating to around 150-300mg of caffeine a day to keep up with sleep issues, to suddenly stopping cold turkey when I flew out to the middle of nowhere and couldn’t get more and it was straight up a solid 5-6 days of thinking I had the flu

Nausea, spins, major fatigue, and some seriously heinous headaches

It was so bad that after two weeks without I swore I’d never pick up an energy drink again and made an appointment with a doctor to fix my sleep issues

Like. Not to be all “oooooh your body is a temple” but if I knew quitting CAFFEINE had similar effects as running out of my prescription meds I might have been a bit more careful drinking it in the first place

[existennialmemes]

I'm sorry. My soapbox has been activated.

Caffeine is a

Drug

And don't get me wrong, I love drugs. I think they're rad. I think there should be fewer barriers between most drugs and adults using them.

However, something that I think is fundamentally immoral is giving someone a drug without telling them:

That it's a drug

What the full possible effects of the drug are including side effects

What the withdrawal effects are like

And society treats caffeine like it's not a drug. We act like it's not a stimulant. We sell it on street corners. We sell in schools, to children.

We don't tell you what the withdrawals are like. We don't even acknowledge that there will be any, even though they can be severe.

In addition to what OP listed, other possible withdrawal symptoms include:

Hand Tremors

Anxiety

Irritability

Brain Fog

Low Mood

Insomnia (yes, counterintuitive as it may seem this is common withdrawal symptom)

Muscle Pain/Stiffness

Caffeine is a stimulant drug that causes physical dependency quite rapidly. The withdrawal symptoms can persist for days to months.

I reiterate that I think drugs are cool. I'm drinking a caffeinated beverage as I type this. But I feel strongly that we should treat drugs like they're drugs. We should not pretend that the legality of a substance negates its status as A Drug™

[kyraneko]

All things are coolest when they're used wisely and with understanding.

[dsudis]

This is another place we hide all the "nobody used to have ADHD" people, like yeah, sure, nobody had ADHD because they used to self-medicate with a pack of cigarettes and three pots of coffee a day! It is maybe actually safer to hand out the regulated and dosed amphetamines to people who need them!

[solitairians]

happy first Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[solitairians]

happy second Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[solitairians]

happy last Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[hanginlikea]

“average male comedy duo on youtube fucks once a month” factoid just statistical error. most male comedy duos on youtube never had sex with each other, dan and phil-

[notcomingbacks]

my

my bio still saying 22 is top tier comedy and i don't know if i'll change it

[gerardwaysbob]

wrong - one day, I will vigorously act on my feelings. - daniel howell, you will get through this night

bonus:

[iero]

Anyway, Ryan Ross should be allowed to get up on that stage this weekend and shoot Brendon Urie dead.

[iero]

Lost a follower over this one. You guys hate me for my tried and true statements!

[iero]

Please do NOT leave this in the tags!

[biomeberry]

Dan forever and always being the #1 advocate for phanfiction will never not be funny. He may have trauma but no one can ever accuse him of not being a patron of the arts

[queerdnp]

ON A MONDAY

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[a-thread-of-green]

The reason why God was so involved in human affairs a long time ago but then noped out after Jesus is because God is going through the same motions for every animal species: making a covenant, giving commandments, and sending down his own child to die in the form of that species. I know this because I felt an odd urge to swallow a mouse yesterday and, when I questioned it, I received a vision from God saying that He was on mice right now, and the mouse I was about to swallow was the mouse-equivalent of Jonah. Tomorrow I'm supposed to spit him out in a den of sinful mice so that he can squeak to word of God at them. I wish that little guy the best.

[nostalgia-folder]

multicolored blank CDs with matching cases

[sugurugetos]

GASOLINE — Halsey, 2025 for the 10th anniversary of Badlands

[theropoda]

maybe its just me. controversial opinion. but stress should not decimate the body as much as it does

[leonardcohenofficial]

the nineties and the early aughts television landscape really was defined by long deployment of "will they won't they" dynamics people these days would not be able to handle network television writers' rooms teasing ships for multiple years only to more often than not be given the answer "they will not. <3 hope this helps"

[goodsprings]

please, mr. jepsen is my father, call me maybe

[danielhowell]

announcing our most important joint project ever! the phaby