There are ubiquitous jokes about cutting coffee intake when someone is "hyper." Yet stimulants are used to "calm" hyperkinetic kids. Seems that many who begin drinking coffee as adults find it steadying, not like a speed affect, so am curious about how coffee works for you.
2007-01-04 06:44:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Slows me down.
2007-01-04 19:12:22 · answer #1 · answered by IU Med 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two cups in the morning wakes me up, but by nightfall I may be having a withdrawal headache. Then, a small cup of coffee will help me fall asleep better than if I go to bed with that slight headache. It's ironic but it may have a calming effect on hyperactive children and dogs. I've seen it.
2007-01-04 06:56:40 · answer #2 · answered by dinotheorist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is clearly a stimulant. Drink a pot tonight and find out for yourself.
It is true that stimulants can help to channel energy, so for some people the effects may seem to be adverse, but that doesn't mean caffeine isn't a stimulant.
2007-01-04 06:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by Lane 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it wakes me up but does not make me hyper. I have ADD. So in kindergarden I was ordered by the Dr. to drank a cup every morning before school. I guess it seems to help me focus and keep a clearer head. I drink about two to three cups a day.
2007-01-04 08:10:20 · answer #4 · answered by love me despite it all 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My youngest son was "hyper", the surest way to get him to calm down was a cup of coffee. As I do not believe in giving drugs to children, my son drank coffee every day.
2007-01-04 06:51:14 · answer #5 · answered by lucysmom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coffee is a stimulant by nature. it can act to make one hyper if they are not regular coffee drinkers. at the same time, a regular drinker, may be calmed by coffee. caffeine is like any drug and once tolerance built up, the body is soothed by its presence.
2007-01-04 06:49:15 · answer #6 · answered by nc_strawberry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a hallucinogen make you have visions and hear issues. the hot craze is Salvia and it is one. Others comprise LSD and a few varieties of mushrooms. A stimulant makes you want to bypass and stay wide awake longer. Meth and cocaine are stimulants. Depressants are drugs that numb you out and make you no longer want to bypass. Alcohol is a depressant. Others comprise valium, and heroin and different opiates.
2016-10-06 10:41:47 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
necessity - what you are speaking of is not a stimulate effect but the depressant effect that the lack of the stimulate causes
2007-01-04 06:47:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It gives energy sometimes and other times calms me down when Im under stress
2007-01-04 06:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It makes me sleepy. It deffinately doesn't "wake me up" although if I drink alot I get palpitations.
I drink it because it tastes nice and it's a habit.
2007-01-04 06:52:34 · answer #10 · answered by Sorcha 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋