energy drinks?!...

just sharing what i've experienced, i don't like the idea of energy drinks, i don't usually drink them. One time though I was up at college and ran out of pills, having forgotten to make an appointment with my doctor to get a new prescription early enough. So at that point i was just out of meds for a few days. My roommates brother was a psychiatrist, and she called him to ask for some advice (and this is obviously just his professional opinion and every doctor is different) but he told her that when some people he diagnoses don't want a stimulant medication, he'll actually prescribe them caffeine pills instead, and suggested i try something like that and honestly it was my idea to get a caffeinated drink, but it had a lot of the types of caffeine that he listed as substitutes, so i tried it, and it worked!! not quite as well as my meds did, but it actually made me feel much more calm and in control. I try not to drink them, but in an emergency, say like i'm somewhere that i cant get a hold of my meds, i use it as a back up plan. thats just my experience though.