Here's my story:

At around the age of 15, I discovered coffee and fell instantly in love with it. I would not go a day without it and I would drink it everyday, multiple times a day, for several years. The dosages steadily increased as the months went by. Along the way, I stopped loving it and I started needing it. It turned from being something enjoyable into something which was needed for survival purposes. I would get up in the mornings, completely exhausted. It got to the point where I no longer felt the super-human effects, instead I became confused and I would spend my days on autopilot without much working under the hood... Or perhaps, it was working overtime and I no longer felt apart of it. My thoughts were there, but it felt like they were too fast for me to notice the content. Does that make sense? Let me try again: on the one hand, I felt like I could not manage to think properly and fully. It was as if I always had the answer right in front of me. However, on the other hand, it was as if I was constantly thinking, but I could not consciously understand what it was, because everything was moving too quickly. Now, the commonality between those two is that I could no longer seem to enjoy my thoughts.

I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, even though no one in my family has it.

Is there a link (read title)? I've heard that there is. It's an allergy to caffeine, developed from drinking too much of it, and - from what I can gather - it's a build-up of caffeine in the brain that slowly damages it...

What do you think? By the way, I've noticed that my symptoms got worse while on caffeine. I didn't make this connection since recently. It's my 5-6th day off the stuff. ARGH!!!

If you find info pertaining to this topic, then please share and I'll do the same. Thanks!