Coffee Addiction

With spending long hours hours at the work place becoming mandatory of everyone of us in this modern world, a person's best companion is the office's coffee machine. Coffee today, is not only a break time favorite anymore but it has now become a compulsion for official meetings and chat sessions. These days a quick mug of coffee helps you to crack the most complex of audit jumbles in a jiffy and also gives you confidence to look at your boss, straight in the eye, after committing some grevious mistake! Very true, it is good, but it is good only as long as it lasts. What happens to you after those coffees are down your throat is quite a cause for concern. While a single cup of coffee merely stimulates your senses, a regular intake of the caffeine in the coffee can turn you into a complete wreck!

Coffee stimulates the Central Nervous System, it increases what is known as the "stress hormones" into one's blood streams which results in the consumer feeling unnaturally alert. This might aid you in working overtime and staying awake all night but what most of us don't realise is that we tamper with the normal functioning of our body. The alertness caused by coffee is called 'induced' alertness which tends to subdue your body's natural functioning and manipulates its instincts to prevent it from relaxing. This causes he individual to get stressed out and it leads to various kinds of disorders.

A daily caffeine consumer would notice that daily Caffeine intake induces a 24 hour cycle of disturbance in your body. Agreed, a cup of tea/coffee early in the morning definitely boosts your mood BUT most of us can't stop at just that!Practically every office goer develops a craving for coffee and consequently a heavy fatigue sets in by noon. Even if you gobble down many cups of coffee through the day, a total collapse is inevitable towards evening.

Irritability, gloom and constant fatigue along with sensation of discomfort are the primary symptoms of coffee addiction. The worst part is that when you try dozing off at night, you just can't, no matter how hard you try, you just aren't able to fall asleep. That's not the end, it all goes round and round in a cycle: You wake up the next morning feeling low and stressed out, thirsty and craving for yet another steaming hot cup of coffee. Once you're tied into this chain of coffee consumption, it becomes too difficult to get yourself out of it.

Thus begins the journey of a coffee-holic, for whom the road ends at dark circles under the eyes due to the immense amount of stress he faces, acidity problems due to the irregularity of diet, irregular palpitations and a hoard more problems.
So as a word of caution to all you die hard coffee lovers, the next time you pick up a cup of coffee, just remind your self, the harmless looking cup of bliss is not all that harmless towards the end of it all.