why some people are coffee addicts? i dont see what they like about it it's bitter, tell me if your one?

Question

i hate coffee and garfield has no right to love coffee, lol

Answer 1

If you are sleepy try to drink coffee. You'll feel better in no time.
but, you'll get addict to it once you drink it many times.
Addiction is a mental or physical disorder proposed to be precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. Addiction is characterized by the repeated use of substances or behaviors despite clear evidence of morbidity secondary to such use.

Decades ago addiction was a pharmacologic term that clearly referred to the use of a tolerance-inducing drug in sufficient quantity as to cause tolerance (the requirement that greater dosages of a given drug be used to produce an identical effect as time passes). With that definition, humans (and indeed all mammals) can become addicted to various drugs quickly. Almost at the same time, a lay definition of addiction developed. This definition referred to individuals who continued to use a given drug despite their own best interest. This latter definition is thought of as a disease by the 12-step/self-help/Social Model Recovery programs, recovery groups, and the medical community.

Physical dependence, abuse of, and withdrawal from drugs and other miscellaneous substances is outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV TR). Unfortunately, terminology has become quite complicated in the field. To wit, pharmacologists continue to speak of addiction from a physiologic standpoint (some call this a physical dependence); psychiatrists refer to the disease state as dependence.

The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simply addiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as "uncontrolled, compulsive use"; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as "addiction". In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components.

There is also a lesser known situation called pseudo-addiction. A patient will exhibit drug-seeking behavior reminiscent of psychological addiction, but they tend to have genuine pain or other symptoms that have been undertreated. Unlike true psychological addiction, these behaviors tend to stop when the pain is adequately treated.

The obsolete term physical addiction is deprecated, because of its connotations. In modern pain management with opioids physical dependence is nearly universal but addiction is rare. Some of the highly addictive drugs (hard drugs), such as cocaine, induce relatively little physical dependence.

Not all doctors agree on what addiction or dependency is, because traditionally, addiction has been defined as being possible only to a psychoactive substance (for example drugs, including alcohol and tobacco), which is ingested, crosses the blood-brain barrier, and alters the natural chemical behavior of the brain temporarily. Many people, both psychology professionals and laypersons, now feel that there should be accommodation made to include psychological dependency on such things as gambling, food, sex, pornography, computers, work, exercise, cutting, and shopping / spending. However, these are things or tasks which, when used or performed, cannot cross the blood-brain barrier and hence, do not fit into the traditional view of addiction. Symptoms mimicking withdrawal may occur with abatement of such behaviors; however, it is said by those who adhere to a traditionalist view that these withdrawal-like symptoms are not strictly reflective of an addiction, but rather of a behavioral disorder. In spite of traditionalist protests and warnings that overextension of definitions may cause the wrong treatment to be used (thus failing the person with the behavioral problem), popular media, and some members of the field, do represent the aforementioned behavioral examples as addictions.

In the contemporary view, the trend is to acknowledge the possibility that the hypothalmus creates peptides in the brain that equal and/or exceed the effect of externally applied chemicals (alcohol, nicotine etc.) when addictive activities take place. For example, when an addicted gambler or shopper is satisfying their craving, chemicals called endorphins are produced and released within the brain, reinforcing the individual's positive associations with their behavior.

Answer 2

I drink way too much coffee around 10-15 cups a day ..being a night shift worker doesn't help .. I started drinking coffee around 16 i love all sorts and flavours but am a regular drinker of black no sugar !!

Answer 3

Generally speaking, I utterly hate coffee but there are exceptions. For instance, I can only drink Starbucks or other gourmet coffee. If its not gourmet, its utterly bitter to me. Some folks are coffee addicts because, well, they might need that extra buzz. ;-)

Answer 4

It's a combination of the caffinee and the habit of drinking coffee... caffinee is the number one drug addiction in the US, but people just don't realize that it can be harmful. (plus... it tastes good.... kinda like some people like the sour and strong taste of wine, or a strong cigar, or a old bottle of whiskey)

Answer 5

I like coffee but I am in no way an addict.

Answer 6

I have my coffee with 4 sugars in it...I can assure you it is NOT bitter!!!

Answer 7

I'd have to agree....coffee tastes pretty nasty.

Answer 8

You don't love your girlfriend so you don't have right that she loves you!

Answer 9

...it's addictive.....
maybe one acquires a taste for it ... just like beer and....oral sex?

Answer 10

its the caffine hit...mmmmmmmm