Drinking coffee again after struggling with anxiety
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2017
- ** Warning: this is a skill to practice IF you've already got lots of experience cutting out compulsions. ** Maybe you cut out caffeine because it spiked your anxiety, but you've been making progress on recovery and you want to pursue your dream of becoming a Red Bull sommelier, so I'll explain a four step exercise I found helpful for getting comfortable with the physical experience of anxiety.
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Continue making videos, you're probably the most informative youtuber on this topic.
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I just had to come back to this video. I love it and it inspires me to keep bringing back my life more and more. I’m drinking coffee while I watch this and I’m gonna go for another walk today after drinking more coffee because I always loved walking places. My anxiety initially stemmed from my PTSD caused from being robbed when I was in public but now I’m doing better and life feels so good. Thank you again, Mark!
Thanks for sharing about the journey you've been on. Keep on enjoying the steps of the adventure!
very interesting! I have such an anxiety disorder built around caffeine. Either obsessing about how I’m tired without it or anxious with it.
same, I absolutely love coffee. For me it's a hit or miss, I either enjoy it and it feels just perfect, or it triggers some physical anxious response which I can't seem to control or understand. At first it was mostly on a busy day at work that it would me anxious, but now it could be even a weekend. Love hate relationship.
I agree with what you said about liking anxiety. I don't know if I can ever learn to like it, but for now I'm learning to tolerate it, and let it be there as long as it wants to be there
I chose to drink coffee this morning because I always just loved coffee before my anxiety disorder. I’m thinking about drinking coffee before I walk to the park because I always loved walking places that were far away. This is exciting to me. I love the way you explained this. It definitely motivates me. Thanks, Mark!
Enjoy enjoying that coffee and the walk!
@@everybodyhasabrain I will!!! No doubt about it!🤩👌
I wish I had found this video before cutting coffee out. I have not had a cup of coffee for a little bit less than a month. Coffee was always something I enjoyed the culture of - meeting friends for a cup, the routine of making it at home, the smell and taste of it, the first sip on a chilly morning or before the start of a long/productive day. I find myself really, really missing the culture that surrounds coffee. I cut it out because on some website on "how to reduce anxiety", it stated to reduce your caffeine intake. So, out of my life coffee/caffeine went. While I have experienced some positive effects without caffeine in my body (better sleep, even energy levels throughout the day, etc), I still really miss coffee. I am afraid to introduce it again because I don't want to feel the physical sensations of it. I will keep this video on the back burner for when I'm ready to tackle this. Thank you so much for this information. It's very helpful!!
Heu, helena, have you introduced coffee again? Its been 4 months for me.
@@juniorarreguin6029 Hi, Junior! Thanks for the comment. I haven't, really. I will grab a soda or a cappuccino on days (like today!) where I didn't get much sleep and have to make it through the day. But I always make sure I eat and I don't have more than 100mg of caffeine in a day. I've found that treating caffeine like I do alcohol is helpful (don't consume on an empty stomach, make sure to drink water/stay hydrated, don't use too much sugar, etc). Hope all is well with you!!
Thank you so much helena! I used to drink coffee on the daily and couldnt function but i had to get on meds because i was off the walls with anxiety. Work stopled and so did my routine. Im ad im not alone. Thank you for reachig back . I greatly apreciate you
I wrote to fast but wanted to say im glad im not alone in this journey.
@@juniorarreguin6029 You are never, ever alone! This community that Mark has built is truly wonderful. Everyone is so helpful, including Mark, himself!! Best of luck to you and your journey. It's definitely a rough one, but it's possible to overcome/learn to sit with your anxiety :)
Thank you!
Thank you.
Oh Mark, this is great. I am a tea lover. This doesn't mean I drink tea whole day. But drinking one cup of tea in morning sometimes brings all kind of intrusive thoughts and anxiety. I don't drink red bull or coffee. The reason I don't feel like giving up caffeine is firstly it takes away something I enjoy. Secondly it gives an opportunity to practice anxiety and not engage in compulsions. Avoiding tea or coffee altogether will be considered compulsion right??
I am trying to start drinking decaf coffee after almost a year of cutting all caffeine, I now only drink decaf green tea and non caffeninated drinks, I quit cold turkey after having a massive panic attack that felt like a heart attack after drinking the dalgona coffee I think I made to strong like more than 200 mg of caffeine and I was having heart palpitations increased heart rate and jitters really bad for awhile but I miss the taste of my coke and iced coffees
This video was so helpful thank you so much! I quit coffee after having severe panic attacks and I somehow rationalized cutting it out for 2 years now. I know understood how to manage anxiety and I’m ready to bring my beloved coffee back in my life 🤍
Enjoy exploring and savoring coffee again!
Understanding why the coffee is not the source of our mental health problem is key for understanding the process of recovery Mark is talking about
It is so useful to shift the focus to our interactions with experiences.
@@everybodyhasabrain so true! Thank you!
Sir, Your all videos are very helpful......
Thanks!
Can this apply to diet as well? I've become very controlling with my diet over the years because I'm afraid of having panic attacks.
Yes, absolutely. It's the exact same thing. Trying to control what we eat as an attempt to avoid uncertainties we're afraid of is just like any other compulsion. There were all sorts of foods I would avoid or particular times when I wouldn't eat because of what I was afraid might happen and getting over that involved purposefully eating before doing things like speaking at meetings in front of lots of people. It's a great support now that I can eat before important events so I can actually fuel doing the things I want to do.
I drink coffee now as a morning pre workout before I go for a run 👍
Haffy Ali Enjoy the morning run!
Same here
So after going hypomanic when I was given prozac by my GP for what he perceived as Depression but was really OCD, and a psych consult later. I was advised to not drink caffeine anymore. So.....I hope I can get back to this.
Hold on so the Prozac made you hypomanic? I have ocd also but I take no meds for it
@@nursev1023 Oh my gosh! 3 years! The person I was when I wrote this comment is no where near who I am today!
Yes I had what they called a false memory, which is how I found out I struggled with Obsessive Compulsive thinking. I developed major depression so my doctor (primary care not psych) prescribed Prozac vs sending me to the hospital and didn't do a mental health evaluation.
Turns out I have bipolar disorder. SSRI's send those with bipolar into a manic state if you don't take a mood stabilizer with it. So I went manic and my brain was so excited it couldn't calm down.
I literally just got back to an awesome state of mind right before the pandemic. When writing what you just commented on I was at my worst state.
I no longer take meds for OCD, just a mood stabilizer to prevent Hypomania which was a huge contributor to my OCD. But I'm fully recovered from OCD now. I just run to the fear. I'll eat from a trash can now, I literally don't care anymore. Mark was a huge contributor to my state now just from practicing what he preaches.
I quit drinking caffeine due to always feeling irritated and anxious either while drinking it or before drinking it. It’s been about 2-3 months since the last time I’ve had any and I think about drinking a energy drink at least once a day.... but after reading a book called caffeine blues it’s been really difficult to justify drinking a energy drink or coffee again.. it sucks lol
Mark is having problems with anxiety and the thoughts being overwhelming everytime after drinking coffee an indicator of ocd?? i recently got diagnosed with ocd anxiety disorder but im still woundering if it was an accurate diagnosis
I don't find it's useful to chase after certainty about diagnoses. It's a lot like physical fitness--it doesn't matter so much why you're out-of-shape because the way you get into shape is going to be the same. A part of that will be cutting out compulsions. It can help to see that going online to try to be certain about indicators of OCD is what's known as a reassurance-seeking compulsion. The more we try to get rid of an uncertainty, the more our brains will just find things that make us question whatever it is. That's another reason why it's useful to shift the focus to the things we want to add into our lives to build better mental health.
sweet man thanks
Mark can you please do a video on how to drink coffee and not have to pee a bunch of times afterwards?
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I'll get right on a video about adult diapers ;)
Just don’t go back to coffee. I’ve quit coffee 4 times, and whenever i have an anxiety relapse, the caffeine makes the anxiety worse, and also going cold turkey from coffee during an anxiety relapse is hell
But coffee is so delicious! I enjoy coffee very much now. It is wonderful to explore different types of beans and be present with the aroma and smell as I make a cup of coffee and drink it. Cutting out the compulsions around physical sensations and anxiety was so helpful. An anxiety "relapse" is a set of compulsions. There's a lot of freedom with ditching those compulsions.
I feel like I could apply this to cannabis. I used to love to enjoy cannabis with my boyfriend and our friends, but it increases my anxiety pretty greatly. Lately I've been able to smoke when my friends smoke without feeling anxious, rather not submitting to the anxiety. I find I become less anxious when I'm doing things I care about, i.e. hanging out with my boyfriend and friends. Like caffeine doesn't cause me nearly the anxiety weed can.
Sir I am 17 and I am not sure I am OCD or not but after watching your videos I am very sure about it .Sir I have a fear from dogs right from my childhood and now everytime I encounter a new fear I feel that I have to live with it just as the fear of dogs
Plz help
What kind of help are you looking for?
Mark Freeman Sir everytime I encounter a new fear whether unreasonable I am not able to come out of it because it get linked to my previous life experiences and I feel totally caged and feels I have ruined my life and nothing can be done for it
Sir I need your help to come out of this.
pratyush jindal I understand that part but what help do you want?
Mark Freeman Sir it is not possible for me to go to a specialist due to some conditions and till now I am fighting it alone and only expect from you is guidance that what path I must go that leads out of it and whether the specialist is necessary or not in such conditions always.
I don't know anything about your condition so I can't really comment on that. But one thing I found useful was to recognize that it's ok to feel fear. We can feel fear while doing the things we love. We can feel fear and live our lives. The problems are not with fear, but in changing our actions because of fear. The problems come from avoiding life, avoiding feelings, avoiding uncertainty. So it can help to start to live life with any feeling.
I only drink water because I’m scared to drink anything else 😩
NoFap destroys my anxiety. :')
Porn addiction causes alot of personality disorders
People speak of coffee as if it is cocaine lol