Dangerous addiction...

Of course you are addicted, louise99! I am, too. I don't know how many cups I drink in a day, I just tend to constantly have a cup by me and filled. Caffeine is addicting, but I don't think it's as bad for us as people tend to make it out to be.

It's certainly possible to be addicted. In fact a lot of people have a real problem with it. If you come to depend on it then you have a problem. It's not good for you as coffee is a diuretic and can leave you seriously dehydrated. Withdrawal symptoms can also be terrible. Perhaps you can try cutting down very slowly, say one cup less that usual a week until you've scaled it down to a healthier level?

Well if I were you stop drinking too much coffee because it's really bad in our health remember always "too much is bad" so moderate drink coffee,I'll just drink two times a day but sometimes I don't drink coffee.

Yes, that definitely is possible. Caffine is a drug. I myself am addicted! I average about 5-8 cups per day. If I dont have my coffee I start to get headaches and mood swings. If I am driving and see a Tim Horton's, I will pull in not even thinking about it, just to get a coffee.

Coffee addicts unite!

I don't doubt that I am addicted to coffee. I drink most of a 12 cup pot in the morning and then drink another 4 or 5 at night.

I look at it this way. I was drug addict for a large part of my teen years, and have been clean for 14 years. I am an alcoholic that has been sober for 9 years next month. If, at the end of the day, I can look at my life and the worst thing I am addicted to is coffee, I'll take it!

I only drink two cups of cofee a day (I live in a cooffee shop called The SECOND Cup so why stop at just one? LOL). I like my two mocha lattes a day, and then I don't need any more coffee. What you describe definitely sounds like a caffeine addiction.

Until about 4 years ago I was totally addicted to coffee since 1963. I would regularly drink 3 POTS daily and would fall asleep without it. I was "cured" by working for Starbucks briefly.

I love my coffee, too, louise99

But I make sure that it's hand brewed by me, and the very best that i can afford. No instant, and no substitutes, either!:)

Here's my coffee article from Apsense!:)

http://www.apsense.com/article/111059.html

Hi Louise99,
Yes, I do drink WAY more than you...I probably put away about 15-20 cups a day...but there is a reason...I am a recovering alcoholic, I have been sober for 19 years so coffee is my savior...can't stop it...good or not...I love it! I figure, as with anything else, I enjoy it very, very much and since I left alcohol I need something to tip to my mouth and it's coffee...don't like soda too much or ice tea or anything as much as coffee...I'll drink it hot, cold, whatever!
We are all going to one day die of something so what the hay!!
Stay cool, stay well, and never, never stress!!
~G~

I drink more than 5 cups of coffee in a day but wow that's too much for me? Especially when I put a lot of coffee powder, it makes me alive and awake and also hard to sleep. But yeah, just like you I'm a certified coffee addict.