Hello Auntie Mame,

Sounds like you care very much for your friend, and that you want to help him to seek help?

Behavior Disorders or Other Disorders can be triggered by Caffeine, However in my unprofessional opinion as a consumer, Ruling out your friends possible ADD/ADHD with others experiences (including myself being ADHD) of possible disorders or diagnostic tools being caffeine intake to make up a diagnosis is just not really a way to find an "Answer" to his behaviour and continue to try and figure it all out, you yourself will most likely begin to become frustrated with all the what if's and failed reasoning to his issues. I do my best to try and be positive and live with this Mental Health terminal illness, hoping for new meds to be developed and hope of someday being self sufficent again.

I would suggest in alternative to the Caffeine Testing so to say, that perhapas it would be an idea for yourself and the others who are noticing this behaviour and perhaps some sort of intervention to make your friend aware, as he may not even be aware that he is being rude or lashing out.

It still could be ADD/ADHD, Depression, Bipolar disorder, a series of many personality disorders, and the list of agaitaion being a trigger goes on... I would say in my Mental Illness, I began to, at the Mall Bookstore in'Self Help" section determined I would find out myself and did find some things, yet ultimately until "I" decided to seek professional help, I realized that all the stacks of 'self help books' could not 'fix' what was 'wrong' with me and with experience as a Patient/Client of many Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Therapists and other Health Care Professionals over 14-years ago, that I realized with the issues I was having, i needed professional help.

Only I could make that decision as a 21-year old adult, to get a ride to the Mental Health Center to have an evaluation by the intake or emergency service Therapist on
call. who agreeed that I needed brief hospitalization ot stable my moods. I was there
for 35-days, and did not want to leave the locked ward. I attempted to return to College and my ADL'S only to be at 3AM in the ER of my former and birth town put in Intensive Care and monidtored overnight, when my family Doc said that this had happened once and he had let it go, and now I needed to work things out more intensivly through to the Psych Ward, and I did enter (did not have much choice) the unit. I recieved professional help with my issues (emotional, mental) and the into to medications while on the PsychWard felt safe and did get many things worked out or at least brought some deep issues up toward's the surface and shared some.

I try to observe myself and make my own diagnosis' through my own behaviours only to be way off as to which MI I do indeed suffer from including chronic pain. The younger age you seek help I have been told, the lesser degree of complex disorders developed in later years to come. From experience, I do have many more personality disorders from the point when I checked in the Hospital all the what if's and things. I was the one who had to work on this and if your friend has emo/or MI, professional help is most likely he/she is needing. Many times ppl can see a pdoc as an outpatient or go to

Good Luck to you! KK101