I used to LOVE coffee and drank alot of it until my pdoc dx'd me with caffine dependency (shit you not) so ever since then I no longer drink it and miss it SOOO much!

what would be the problem with caffine dependency as long as you can handle it? Iwe are dependent on our meds.

I was drinking a pot a day and wondering why i was so agitated and needed more benzos to calm me down, thats why i gotta stay away from the stuff :(

I need my couple of big cups to wake me up in the AM... however I can't drink it past early afternoon or I'm up most of the night

I went to a lecture given by a pdoc that specialized in anxiety disorders and he said the first question that he asked any new patient was what is their caffeine intake
It can cause severe anxiety for some

I drink about 4 cups a day at work to keep me alert. Along with BP 2 I also have dissociative disorder . When I'm not at work I have about 1 or 2 cups a day.

loum50 do you have anxiety issues drinking that much?

I do have a lot of stress at work. It seems like the more hours I work the more I fall behind. At home , since I was young I have woken up at 2 AM screaming and sometimes in a panic attack, sometimes with flashbacks. Now with medication I sometimes wake up at 2 AM, but no terror and no flashbacks. Seems like I take pills for everything.

love coffee, drink pots of it : ) Goes well with the too many cigs! doesn't hurt MY meds, or cause manic....

Anxiety is not one of my issues - I can see where stimulants of any kind can trigger that - but coffee? LOL Say it ain't so... : )

I drink a lot of coffee...what would life be with out coffee ! ?

I drink coffee all day long, but that first morning cup...ahhh..Heaven !

I don't know why but coffee use to keep me up for days right before my "time of the month" and I was on geodon. Since going off geodon though it doesn't happen any more.

speaking of caffeine check this out!

http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine

I drink about a minimum of 3 cups of coffee per day, and it doesn't give me any anxiety. As a matter of fact, I've been cutting back on my anxiety meds.

I drink about 3/4 of a 12 cup pot a day.
Sometimes, a pot and a half.
On rare occasions, I don't have any.

I like a 'wake up' cup in the morning. (A BIG cup.)

Coffee doesn't seem to have much of an effect on me.
Unless I quit drinking it altogether for a long time.

I quit for over a year once, and when I had that first cup after doing that, I felt like I took speed, LOL!!!!
After a few days of drinking it again, that feeling went away (darn it.)

I used to have to not drink it after 4:00 pm, or else I wouldn't sleep.
Now, I can drink it all day long, right up till my bedtime and it doesn't matter, I suppose because of my meds.

it's got antidepressant qualities (pretty sure I heard that somewhere)

yes I drink it..no, it doesn't make me manic..counteracts sedation from heavy dose of mood stabiliser (tegretol)..plus I just love it.

Yeah Eulanspiegal!! :)