2 Responses to "Caffeine addiction...is it possible to go through major withdrawal after you have been "sober" for months"

1. admin Says:
   March 31st, 2010 at 12:55 pm

   It sounds like your body is "oeverreacting" to the caffeine you've ingested. A similar thing will happen to addicts when they've been sober for a while and then ingest some drug.

   How does it work?

   The last time your body encountered caffeine it had a reaction of XXXXX (I'm using 5 large Xs here to indicate a relatively large reaction.) That's because you'd been using caffeine for awhile and your body knew how to compensate for the drug. You were used to this reaction from your body and it felt normal.

   Now, after abstaining from caffeine, your body has the same reaction. . . but, unfortunately, your body is OVERcompensating for the caffeine. It's the overreaction that's making your body sick.

   In my psych classes, this is referred to as "Classical" or "Pavlovian" conditioning. It's a form of learning your body does.
   Source(s):
   10 years of teaching, including 5 years of teaching learning and behaviorism.

2. admin Says:
   March 31st, 2010 at 12:56 pm

   probably because you're body hasn't processed it in a while......same thing has happened to me with coffee as well as with cigarettes......in addition you'll notice that it tastes alittle different since you haven't had it in a while and that might be why you get sick

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