When I finally confronted my dependency and gave up coffee three months ago, my body wasn’t happy. In the mornings during the time that I would normally have my espresso, my thoughts tried to bargain with me to find some way to consume caffeine: How about just one cup? Maybe I could stop by the cafe on the way home and order a small one? Each day for nearly a week when I didn’t succumb to the temptation, a pounding headache took over instead. I was moody and irritable, sensitive to loud noises and the slightest inconvenience.
Caffeine appears in so many foods, drinks and we even allow children to freely consume it. But it doesn't take long to develop a dependency on it and, for me, the withdrawal was so strong, I started to question: Is caffeine actually the harmless drug we all say it is?
