GAD-General Anxiety Disorder

About 80% of American adults consume 200 mg of caffeine a day. “A 12-oz. (tall) coffee from Starbucks will run you about 260 mg, while a 14-oz. Dunkin’ Donuts coffee contains 178 mg.” The daily intake of caffeine differed between products; one should always check the amount before consumption. There are no limits on how many energy drinks a person can purchase, which make it easy to abuse. Especially in younger children the addiction rate outstandingly high. Which may lead to other drug usage in the future and the committal dependence on stronger drugs.

To a normal human, one might think that they can experience anxiety any day. An example is that some people think watching someone scale a building, or someone walk on a tightrope across two high buildings gives them anxiety. Although this is somewhat true, true anxiety is completely different. Anxiety is a serious mental illness that some people unfortunately suffer from. “Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the US” (“Facts & Statistics”) . People who have anxiety disorder are constantly worrying or stressful from normal everyday events. These patients have troubles operating in day to day operations, such as driving. There are different types of anxiety disorders including phobias,

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is one of the most diagnosed mental disorders today, and can often be closely linked to concurrent symptoms or disorders including physiological, behavioral, other anxiety disorders, depression and substance abuse. (Merino, Senra & Ferreiro, 2016) (Cacioppo & Fregberg, 2013, p. 688). GAD most notably produces symptoms of excessive worry and anxiety related to non-specific risks, which often leads to functional decline both socially and professionally (Roberge et al., 2015). GAD reveals instances of links to biological origins such as heredity and biochemistry, as well as, ties to an individual’s cognitive development and socioeconomic environment (Cacioppo & Fregberg, 2013).

Thesis: Caffeine can have many different effects on the body depending on the amount of consumption.

Walking into most markets or convenience store you may note half the beverages being energy drinks of some sort loaded with caffeine. Excessive use of energy drinks in today’s youth is becoming an issue this day in age. A large portion of the offenders is the youth under the age of thirty. Many look at the drink and see the many vitamins which are also present in most cereal, but in larger quantities and drink up with no regret. Many consumers are aware of the negative short-term side-effects of energy drinks like jitters and the crash effect. Much like past generation’s vices these effects were not noticed right away and long-term use along with over-consumption of energy drinks have very serious risk which have been coming to light recently.

Thesis: Caffeine is something that almost everyone has consumed and some people are even addicted to. Caffeine has negative and positive effects on one’s health

Over the years there had been controversies about caffeine energy drinks causing deaths and overdoses related to the beverages. It had been questioning that such energy drinks are causing heart attacks to the young population whom consumed these beverages in their daily life. After these controversies “Makers of energy drinks, meanwhile, have insisted that the beverages are safe and that some of the cases of bad reactions may have been due to pre-existing conditions that the individuals in question had”.

Through out the world there are many substances that are abused on a daily basis. Some of the well-known addictions include smoking, drinking, and maybe even other drugs. It is often easy to think of these more common substances, but there is one substance that is less talked about that almost every American has tried in their lifetime. This substance is caffeine. All of these substances have an addictive nature to them including caffeine. The prevalence of caffeine addiction is becoming more common and is often accepted in society. Becoming addicted to caffeine is easy to do and may lead to some of the same symptoms as other drug use such as dependence, feelings, and withdrawal.

Caffeine is addictive. This is an undisputable fact. The American Psychiatric Association lists caffeine withdrawal as a formal disorder in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th ed. under the Section III, conditions for further study. The World Health Organization names caffeine withdrawal as a withdrawal or dependence inducing psychostimulant in its International and Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th ed., which was instantiated in October of 2015. This addictive quality comes from caffeine’s immediate positive effect on the user’s mood combined with a delayed negative effect. This makes one associate caffeine with the positive effect, and the negative effect encourages the

The purpose of this study was to research different personalities, and how they affect caffeine intake. Regular consumption was predicted by gender, age, nicotine use, and types of personality traits. Consistent caffeine consumption would has been known to impair sleep and enhance anxiety, and if over-consumed it becomes chronic it could cause dependency, and or worsen psychological symptoms, (Juliano et al., 2011, Ogawa and Ueki, 2007 and Rihs et al., 1996). Caffeine can, however, cause positive effects in cognitive areas: it improve alertness, decrease fatigue, enhance executions of basic tasks that require

This study on caffeine consumption was conducted as a survey given out to college students and an afterschool AP tutor class at Van Nuys High school. Of the respondents, there were an equal amount of males and females (see Table 1). In total 55% of the respondents were the high school students. The mean age was 18.28, 22 % of the respondents currently in college. College graduates constitute 11 % of the participants. There was only 1 repondent who has a high school graduate and was not currently in college. Also, there was only 1 participant who was currently in grad school.

Caffeine is a substance that almost everyone is familiar with, but not everyone knows what the real risks can be if not taken in moderation. Energy drinks are one of the many drinks that often contain caffeine. The caffeine in these drinks helps people gain more energy throughout the day and keeps them alert. Energy drinks have become very popular among teens over the past couple of years because of the targeted marketing companies have made towards younger people. What most teens do not know is that the consumption of all that caffeine that help them stay up and study or keep them active, can actually be dangerous. The excessive amount of caffeine in these energy drinks affect younger people far more severely than adults because they are not as tolerant to caffeine as adults. Not only are teens more affected by the caffeine, but one energy drink has almost three times as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. Why are energy drinks so popular among teenagers and what are the real health risks?

Many Americans have included caffeine as a part of their daily diet whether they realize it or not. In fact, “caffeine is the most consumed psychoactive substance in the world” (Ruxton

Physically, caffeine permeates the blood stream fairly quickly and starts to affect a person’s brain and body. However, the long-term effects that caffeine can have on a person are far more negative than the positive short-term benefits caffeine provides for students. The most prominent physical side effects that a person often finds themselves facing are the symptoms of withdrawal. People who don’t get their daily dose of caffeine frequently find themselves burdened with headaches and grogginess. “Studies find that from 25 to 100 percent of people who kick caffeine experience headaches” (Carper 3). In his article, Mark Adams interviews Jack James, the head of the school of psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. James has studied the effects of caffeine for 25 years, and is considered an expert on the subject. Adams quotes James as being one of the biggest skeptics of the chemical. “‘Considerable scientific effort has gone into clarifying to what extent benefits generally attributed to caffeine represent genuine net effects of the drug or reversal of withdrawal effects…’” (5). Withdrawal, in more serious instances, can lead to mild or sever forms of depression, anxiety, and sleep deprivation. Caffeine consumption also becomes a problem when a person’s body starts to build up a tolerance to the chemical, therefore forcing them to require more caffeine throughout the day, increasing their chances for severe withdrawal systems. “After repeated consumption of

All throughout the world on the daily, people are consuming caffeine in the form of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate as a pastime and mostly within a social setting. These people gather in what is called a café, which has been a tradition since 1689 when the first coffeehouse was opened in Paris. However, they’re failing to realize that their body is being poisoned by a psychoactive drug. The main purpose of caffeine is to eliminate fatigue and enhance mental performance for those who need the extra boost in the morning. This has resulted in people consuming an amount higher than the daily recommended amount of caffeine because the FDA has failed to regulate it. According to a research done by the Scientist magazine, caffeine is the greatest drug consumed in the world today. Because of this substance, people are getting addicted, developing depression, along with anxiety, and eventually dying. Spend your time researching online, and take note of how young, healthy people are unexpectedly dying from overdosing on caffeine or from a heart attack. The problem with society is the misconception regarding caffeine as a drug, several ignore it and decide to do whatever they want. Because at the end of the day, it's ultimately their decision to do what they want with their body. That doesn’t mean the public can’t be informed on the subject of their own personal safety. Maybe they would be persuaded to cut down on their intake of caffeine, which would prevent this mess from happening in