i have gone down from four pots of coffee per day to two cups per day.

This week I will have 1/2 cup per day.

It's been long and difficult, but my breathing and my heart rate is calm, and my thoughts are not racing.

I never, before, put two and two together. Yikes lol

WAY TO GO! OPENARMS I LOVE THAT MOVE OVER ANXIETY I HAVE SOME LIVING TO DO!

great job openarms! giving up coffee is not an easy thing to do for many. my sister has such bad anxiety sometimes, yet she won't give up the morning coffee or the diet pepsi w/caffiene.

i've never been big on coffee, but i do enjoy the ocassional white chocolate mocha, here and there. well yesterday i had 2 of them-
one in the am and the other in the afternoon.
last night around 8 pm i started feeling a little anxious and my scary obsessive thoughts that i've been handling/controlling so well started to creep up. i wasn't too worried about it. i knew it would pass and it was only anxiety, but at first i was puzzled as to why i was feeling that way.
took a few mins, but last night i came to realize the culprit was the coffee/mocha!

staying away from caffeine makes quite a difference where anxiety is concerned, doesn't it? not to mention for our "overall" health as well.

Good for you! I too gave up caffeine all together (except chocolate here and there) about 3 years ago. Rough first two weeks but then I was okay. What a difference it makes in us anxiety sufferers so good for you for taking that step. It's not easy but absolutely possible!