Anxiety

Absolutely. For what it's worth, if you like the stimulating effects of caffeine, and hot drinks - you're better off with black tea. Theanine as found in tea significantly reduces the jitters and anxiety from caffeine, so tea tends to cause less anxiety than coffee even if you drink enough to consume a comparable amount of caffeine.

You can also just take theanine supplements alongside your coffee. Can work wonders if you're feeling anxious from it.

But it's still not a perfect solution and you're better off just avoiding caffeine entirely. Easier said than done though and I'm sitting here drinking my 4th coffee of the day so.. can't say I'm the best at it myself.

Yeah, it’s bad, and it’s really bad with dosages in stuff like Monster.

Not to mention the other health issues with energy drinks.

Why not try skipping caffeine for a week or two and see if it has a beneficial effect?

Caffeine clears out of your body fairly quickly, but you need time after that for your system to readjust and any changes to become apparent. Some people feel very lethargic, or get headaches for a while after dropping caffeine, but that passes fairly quickly.

In my experience, caffeine is really bad for anxiety. I've been off caffeine for over 20 years now. I still get a little bit of it because it's hard to cut it out completely even when you drink decaffeinated coffee and decaffeinated tea. And if you eat chocolate you're getting a little bit of caffeine, but I don't drink caffeinated beverages.

The reason I went off caffeine is because I was having an irregular heartbeat, and I had to go to a heart doctor. He suggested before he put me on any medication that first I try to cut back on my caffeine intake. I slowly weaned myself off caffeine over a couple weeks and because I did it slowly, I didn't experience any of the problems people usually have. I didn't have headaches. I wasn't tired, none of that.

And once I cut caffeine out completely, I was really surprised how much better I felt. First of all, my heart went back to normal, it went back to beating regularly and normally and that felt really good.

And secondly, I couldn't believe how much better my anxiety felt. I used to sit in classrooms and my hands would just be like shaking, and it was, you know, really stressful. You know how that is. And I just thought that was something I was just gonna have to deal with, but I didn't realize it was the caffeine that was causing it. And when I stopped the caffeine that completely went away. And I felt so much better.

Everybody's different, and some people might not be able to cut caffeine completely out and feel okay. Some people might need to have some caffeine to feel okay. But just cutting back a bit of it, you know, just see if you can cut back slowly, cut down to about half and see if it reduces your anxiety. I don't regret stopping caffeine at all. It was a very good thing to do.

As I'm sure you know, when you start feeling anxiety, the feeling of it like your hand's shaking causes you to feel more anxiety.And it just kind of like circles around and becomes more intense, and the caffeine really does make that worse, because like I said, the caffeine can be what's causing your hands to shake and you think it's anxiety, but it's the caffeine, but then it becomes anxiety because of your worry about the anxiety. If that makes any sense?

Sorry, this was so long. I hope that it helps you. I wish that somebody had told me about this sooner and I'm glad that I realized it.

In my experience, yes. Theanine might help with the anxiety if taking less/no caffeine isn't feasible for you