In our daily lives, we rely on coffee. It happens to the best of us. We need it to keep going. It is considered a drug, and sometimes you'll get addicted to drugs. With any addiction comes the 5 stages to get you out of this deep dark addiction. You can relapse and just end up back at the very beginning, with just one little sip of coffee or one small iced coffee.

Stage One: Denial

You wake up in the morning, and you will tell yourself you don’t need it. Deep down, you know you aren’t totally over coffee. You won't admit it at first that you actually need it. You tend to lie to yourself that you can continue on you daily life without it, but we all know that's questionable.

Stage Two: Anger

The anger comes in the form of headaches. It’s almost as if you can’t even keep your hair up and eyes open anymore, and you just want to sit in a room with no light, forever. No matter how much Advil you take, the headache just never seems to go away and with every ache you get more and more aggravated. With every moment, you feel more and more on the edge, and you could just break at any moment. If someone get's you at the wrong time, you could just snap.

Stage Three: Bargaining

Then you start to bargain with yourself. While you’re out running your errands, you can see the Dunkin Donuts sign in the distance and your first instinct is to stop and get yourself a medium iced coffee with two sugars and one cream. At first, you tell yourself you don’t need it, but then you start to convince yourself a small iced coffee won’t kill you. This is where the bargaining will take you a few steps back all the way to stage one, all the way back to the very beginning.

Stage Four: Depression

Depression hits you hard. You start moping around because the lack of caffeine is really getting to you. It’s almost as if you aren’t your peppy self anymore. You miss you’re true best friend, coffee. It never let you down and you miss it. It's truly understandable. It's like the glue in your life, it keeps you all together, in one piece and not all over the place.

Stage Five: Acceptance

You’ve accepted, You will always be addicted to caffeine. No matter how hard you try, you always seem to come to the same conclusion that you need caffeine and coffee in your life. You just can't live without it. It gets you out of bed everyday and keeps you on track.