TEENAGERS WITH EXPERIENCE

  • Home
  • Mental Health
    • Anxiety and Stress Articles
    • Body Image Articles
    • Depression Articles
    • Disorder Articles
    • Eating Disorder Articles
    • Getting Help Articles
    • Mental Health and Others Articles
    • OCD Articles
    • Self-Harm Articles
    • Sleep Problem Articles
    • Social Anxiety Articles
  • LGBTQ+
    • Coming Out Articles
    • Gender Articles
    • Questioning Articles
    • Pride Articles
    • Sexuality Articles
  • Lifestyle
    • Addiction Articles
    • Beauty Articles
    • Growing Up Articles
    • Hobby Articles
    • Healthy Living Articles
    • Modern World Articles
    • Period Articles
    • Sex Articles
    • Sense of Self Articles
  • Education
    • College Articles
    • Life Skills Articles
    • Revision Articles
    • School Articles
    • University Articles
    • Volunteer Articles
    • Working Articles
  • Social Life
    • Abuse Articles
    • Bullying Articles
    • Emotion Articles
    • Family Articles
    • Friendship Articles
    • Death Articles
    • Pet Articles
    • Relationship Articles
  • Disabilities
    • Autism
    • ADHD
    • Deaf & Blindness
    • Learning Disabilities
    • Physical Disabilities
  • Topical
    • BLM Articles
    • COVID-19 Articles
    • Cultural Articles
    • Environment Articles
    • Feminism Articles
    • Finance Articles
    • Political Articles
    • Holiday Articles >
      • Christmas
      • Easter
      • Halloween
      • New Years Articles
      • Valentine's Day
    • Religion Articles
  • Creative Writing
    • Poems
    • Reviews
    • Short Stories
    • Writing Prompts
  • Team
    • Join The Team
    • Our Team
    • Virtual Work Experience
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Videos
  • For Schools
  • Submit an article
  • Home
  • Mental Health
    • Anxiety and Stress Articles
    • Body Image Articles
    • Depression Articles
    • Disorder Articles
    • Eating Disorder Articles
    • Getting Help Articles
    • Mental Health and Others Articles
    • OCD Articles
    • Self-Harm Articles
    • Sleep Problem Articles
    • Social Anxiety Articles
  • LGBTQ+
    • Coming Out Articles
    • Gender Articles
    • Questioning Articles
    • Pride Articles
    • Sexuality Articles
  • Lifestyle
    • Addiction Articles
    • Beauty Articles
    • Growing Up Articles
    • Hobby Articles
    • Healthy Living Articles
    • Modern World Articles
    • Period Articles
    • Sex Articles
    • Sense of Self Articles
  • Education
    • College Articles
    • Life Skills Articles
    • Revision Articles
    • School Articles
    • University Articles
    • Volunteer Articles
    • Working Articles
  • Social Life
    • Abuse Articles
    • Bullying Articles
    • Emotion Articles
    • Family Articles
    • Friendship Articles
    • Death Articles
    • Pet Articles
    • Relationship Articles
  • Disabilities
    • Autism
    • ADHD
    • Deaf & Blindness
    • Learning Disabilities
    • Physical Disabilities
  • Topical
    • BLM Articles
    • COVID-19 Articles
    • Cultural Articles
    • Environment Articles
    • Feminism Articles
    • Finance Articles
    • Political Articles
    • Holiday Articles >
      • Christmas
      • Easter
      • Halloween
      • New Years Articles
      • Valentine's Day
    • Religion Articles
  • Creative Writing
    • Poems
    • Reviews
    • Short Stories
    • Writing Prompts
  • Team
    • Join The Team
    • Our Team
    • Virtual Work Experience
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Videos
  • For Schools
  • Submit an article

Can I become addicted to energy drinks?

4/9/2023

0 Comments

 
First of all, what is an energy drink and why is it so popular? An energy drink consists of stimulant compounds which in other words, are drugs that increase your brain activity and nervous system. 

The reason it has become so popular over the years is that people are replacing food with energy drinks. We get our natural energy from food but when you have had a busy day, running low on energy, we turn to energy drinks. 

Society has been brainwashed into thinking energy drinks are the ‘quick and easy’ way for a fast boost of energy. But, the question is, ‘am I addicted to energy drinks?’ 

In today’s society, energy drinks and teenagers have become known to mix, that’s exactly what happened to me. My first encounter with tasting an energy drink was back in high school in the year 2010 Let’s just say that since tasting ‘Orange Lucozade’ I’ve become hooked on it. Over the past decade, I can admit that I believe I’m addicted to Lucozade for the wrong reasons. I rely on this energy drink to get me through the day.

If you’ve been following my mental health journey throughout the years, you’ll know I suffer from ‘Bulimia Nervosa’ which is a type of eating disorder. I’ve replaced my intake of food with Lucozade (which I know is not healthy at all) but this is when I’ve realised I’m addicted. 

In the long run, energy drinks can cause health problems, some of which are:

  • Disrupted sleep patterns. This has affected my sleeping pattern and if I don’t take my medication, then I would be living off 3-4 hours of sleep per day. 
  • Psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and phobias. I believe that my anxiety has risen since consistently drinking energy drinks. I’m more alert and jumpy than I was before-I jump at the tiniest of things, when before I used to brush it off.
  •  Heart arrhythmias. This is when the heartbeat is irregular or in other words, ‘When the heart skips a beat’. 
  • Increases heart rate and blood pressure. I’ve concluded that my seizures are related to this in some way. Whenever I’m in the ambulance they take my blood pressure and it’s always high. 
  • Muscle twitching. When I’m sitting down, I’ve noticed that I would have random muscle twitches. At first, I thought nothing of it. But as I’ve done more research into it I know the cause of them now- too much caffeine can make you more alert and have weird spasms in parts of your body.


Those are just some of the negative causes that energy drinks can do to your brain and body. Reading more about it has opened my eyes and educated me more about the dangers of energy drinks. Some alternative drinks that I found helpful and replaceable were; 

- Blue Powerade (It’s full of flavour and that’s what got me addicted to Lucozade)
- Lucozade Sport (This is a non-fizzy type of Lucozade which helps when it’s hot!)
- Flavoured Water (I’m still trying this one out as it’s very different to an energy drink, but it’s healthier so I better get drinking!) 

I would consider myself addicted to energy drinks and it’s hard to break the cycle of intake.

​Would you consider it an addiction like smoking or drugs?

Mel

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Categories

    All
    Abuse
    Addictions
    ADHD
    Advice
    Age Regression
    A Levels
    Anxiety
    Anxiety And Stress
    Autism
    Beauty
    Binding
    Body Image
    Books
    Budgeting
    Bullying
    Christianity
    Chronic Pain
    Cleaning
    Climate
    College
    Coming Out
    Cost Of Living
    Covid 19
    Covid-19
    Creative Writing
    Cultural
    Death
    Depression
    Disability
    Disorder
    Dissociation
    Dissociative Disorder
    Economic
    Education
    Emotions
    Environment
    Family
    Feminism
    Finance
    Friendship
    Gender
    Getting Help
    Growing Up
    Halloween
    Healthy Living
    Helping Others
    Hobbies
    Hobby
    Holidays
    Hormones
    Identity
    LGBTQ+
    Life Skills
    Lifestyle
    Lockdown
    Loneliness
    Love
    Low Mood
    Menstruating
    Mental Health
    Mental Health & Others
    Money
    Motivation
    Music
    Neurodivergent
    New Year's
    Pandemic
    Perfectionism
    Periods
    Personal
    Personality Disorder
    Pets
    Physical Disability
    Poem
    Poetry
    Political
    Politics
    Pride
    Prom
    PSM
    QUEER
    Questioning
    Relationships
    Religion
    Reviews
    Revision
    Saving Money
    School
    Self Care
    Self Harm
    Self Love
    SEN/D
    Sense Of Self
    Sexual Health
    Sexuality
    Shopping
    Short Story
    Sleep Problems
    Social Anxiety
    SOCIAL LIFE
    Social Media
    Stress
    Strikes
    Support
    Tinder
    Topical
    Trigger Warnings
    University
    Volunteering
    Work
    Work Experience
    Working
    World Affairs
    Writing Prompts
    Young Carers

      Further support or information

    Submit

    RSS Feed

Picture
Home
Join The Team

About Us
Contact Us
Teenagers With Experience is an online organisation created to provide teenagers worldwide with an online platform to share their own experiences to be able to help, inform and educate others on  a variety of different topics. We aim to provide a safe space to all young people. You can contact us via email, social media or our contact form.

Please note that the content on this website is created by teenagers. While we strive to provide accurate and helpful information, it is important to remember that we are not professional experts. If you are experiencing a crisis or need professional advice, please reach out to a qualified mental health professional or a helpline.​

Submit