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Yasemin Görgülü1, Öznur Taşdelen1, Mehmet Bülent Sönmez1
1Department of Psychiatry, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
Abstract:
Interest in energy drinks is increasing every day. Energy drink consumption is increasing proportionally. Users often utilize these drinks in order to enjoy, have fun and to increase performance and attention. However, consumption of the energy drinks sometimes may also cause adverse physical and psychological consequences. Unwanted physical results are in the more foreground, noticeable and visible but the data about psychological problems caused by energy drinks is accumulated over the years in the literature. In this case report, we describe the case of a young man with no psychiatric history who was hospitalized for psychotic symptoms following excessive consumption of energy drinks.
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