Happy 4/20 everyone! I recently started drinking coffee in the last year after never really liking it. Growing up I would try my mom's coffee every once in a while but it always tasted burnt and bitter. Looking back I realize that I didn't like that coffee due to my mom usually steeping it in a French press for 15-20 minutes.
I got into coffee in the last year due to my roommate who worked as a barista making me some and it being actually flavorful. But we were using a drip coffee machine and it wasn't strong enough for my liking. Before I actually started drinking coffee I liked to watch coffee gadget reviews cause I thought they were interesting? Which is how I found out about the aeropress which is my way I make my coffee in the morning.
The aeropress is kind of a three one thing cause it's a pour over, French press and manual espresso machine all in one, in addition I use a hand crank burr grinder to grind my beans and typically only add a bit of creamer as I want to taste the coffee as much as possible I also usually use medium roast beans.
How do you take your coffee/tea?
Starting some new medication. Doctor is concerned that my mostly unmanaged anxiety disorder would be exacerbated by most ADHD meds since they're stimulants (kinda bullshit, overstimulation is one of by biggest triggers but whatever) so instead I've been started on a norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitor. That still might exacerbate anxiety, so we're starting on a low dose and working up.
It'll take a while to get the blood levels high enough to be effective, so won't know if this does anything for a week, but I'd love to actually do the things I want to do instead of just thinking about doing them and being anxious because I'm not doing anything.
Hey, I have both of those things and the ADHD stims actually help my anxiety a decent bit. Still anxious, but less. FWIW.