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Posted: Dec 16 2009 09:51 pm

I have been a big energy drink guy the last year or so. I started taking them because i liked the taste of them and they gave me a boost during the day......

After not drinking them a few days I have realized my behavior and the way I look at life has really degressed into territory that I never thought it would because of my addiction to them. When I started my Junior year of college I started drinking them and my whole outlook on life started to become bleak. I use to drink alot of Gatorade but I got burned out on it, hence why I moved to energy drinks......

I honestly think that drinks like Full Throttle have some serious side effects attached to them. You get so depressed on them after about 6 hours that you really don't want to live, yet you look at suicide as something totally unlogical at the same time and never an option. Its like the drink's ingredients counteract your brains normal thought patterns and plunge you into an deep abyss thats says there is nothing to look forward to in life. The drink's side effects are so subtle because you sometimes won't feel the effects of it even up to 12 hours later.

I know this may sound silly but I realized that Energy Drinks have a ton more ingredients than coffee, yet does something totally different that isn't healthy for the human brain. I honestly think it has caused me to act really weird on the forums and i apologize to people for that.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Dec 16 2009 10:31 pm

It's the caffeine that probably causes the depression. It depletes the body of vitamins and minerals (it is a diuretic) and disbalances the adrenal system. It's just one of the drawbacks of stimulant use.

Posted: Dec 16 2009 11:41 pm

I felt like crap for bit after cutting out energy drinks, it doesn't last.

Posted: Dec 16 2009 11:50 pm

Caffeine shouldn't make you suicidal. Maybe withdrawl from it could, but that really sounds like something you should talk to a doctor about.

Posted: Dec 17 2009 12:03 am

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

Caffeine shouldn't make you suicidal. Maybe withdrawl from it could, but that really sounds like something you should talk to a doctor about.

I dont get that way on Coffee though, and that has caffeine.....

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

If you read the sides of the cans of whatever it is your drinking it tells you that other than caffeine there is all kinds of other garbage in those drinks, such as taurine, guarana, and a bunch of other shit that is probably awful for you. But none of those things should make you depressed and that is an issue completely unrelated to energy drinks.

Posted: Dec 17 2009 08:55 am

They can make you depressed if you're addicted to them. Caffiene in large doses, as in energy drinks, can be profoundly addicting, not to mention all the other junk that they put in those drinks on top. You wouldn't think this, but marijuana of all drugs brings with it profound depressions when addicts try to quit and many times leads to suicide. So no drug should be underestimated.

But as Jeebus said, caffiene shouldn't be enough to make you suicidal, so there are other issues going on with your mental health that you need to look at.

Cutting out the energy drinks though will help a bit in the meantime.

Posted: Dec 17 2009 08:59 am

Drink a shit load of water, it is actually proven to keep you more alert than any energy drink. If you must have caffeine, drink it in the form of green tea. Cue my Sig...

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

First: If you feel like you might be serious about hurting or killing yourself you should contact a Dr. right away. I am not over exaggerating. DO NOT KILL YOURSELF.

If you were just trying to emphasize that the drinks lower your mood, then there is an easy way to fix this. Stop drinking the energy drinks and go to water for two weeks. After two full weeks of drinking water assess your mood.

If you are still depressed then see a Doctor.

Note: If it is an addiction to the ingredients, you will get worse before you feel better. You really need to give your body time to get used to not having the energy drink as a requirement. Two weeks should be good enough.

Posted: Dec 17 2009 11:59 am

GPFontaine wrote:

Note: If it is an addiction to the ingredients, you will get worse before you feel better. You really need to give your body time to get used to not having the energy drink as a requirement. Two weeks should be good enough.

yup. you have to let yourself detox, so to speak

Posted: Dec 17 2009 03:13 pm

Yeah, and the hating your life and wanting do die but finding the idea of suicide preposterous...that's signs of clinical depression my friend. Trust me.

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

Didn't scientist research on taurine and found it does absolutely nothing?

And about caffeine, it's worse in energy drinks than in coffee, because you drink them much faster (unless you drink your coffee when it's cold).

Anyway, stimulants are shit, all it does is use up the energy you have "saved" for the next few hours in about 30 minutes. That's why you don't feel like doing crap afterwards.

Posted: Dec 17 2009 03:15 pm

They work for me at work. I work graveyard at 7-11, and some nights I'll be just dead. So I'll drink a Fuel Cell (like liquid meth, I swear to God), and it'll give me enough of a boost to start doing work, and then I'll just keep going, even after it wears off.

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

You didn't seriously just say that drugs alter your thinking, like it was a new discovery, did you? Of course caffiene affects the way your brain works... it's a drug, they tend to do that. As for coffee, you aren't getting as strong a hit off it. There's less caffine, I think, and you get it slower. And then for feeling sad... well, you're coming off uppers, what do you expect? Sure it's nowhere near as bad as something like coke or speed, but neither is your withdrawal. Just detox for a bit, and then once you're back to regular functioning, try sticking to the reccomended daily amounts on the side of the can.

Oh, and everyone who said it is one hundred percent correct; if you ever start thinking about suicide or dying or whatever, get your ass help.