Basically, when you drink coffee, or even take adderall, is it like swiping an energy credit card? Thus the eventual crash?
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No. Well not really. I’ll crash after coffee but that’s just the nature of caffeine… the gain far outweighs the loss. It’s not an even trade of energy. Same with adderall, but less so. When it’s no longer in my system I just feel normal. Scatter brained, but normal.
With coffee, no. Coffee (caffeine) blocks the receptors in your brain that makes you tired (adenosine), so it’s not borrowing anything—just giving the illusion of alertness, which is why some people crash when it wears off. Adderall (d-amphetamine) attempts to release more dopamine to regulate symptoms of ADHD. People with ADHD allegedly have lower dopamine reuptake, so this generally balances out to a normal amount. Recreational abuse of Adderall will release large amounts of dopamine to create euphoria, which would indeed be metaphorically accurate to swiping a credit card of feel good chemicals. It will cause a comedown of mental fatigue and agitation if abused like any other recreational drug.
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