The most common symptoms for self-diagnosis of caffeine addiction related delirium tremens is the inability to operate the chosen caffeine producing equipment due to drastically lowered dexterity and the inability to organize the procedure into atomic steps that may be carried out in a linear order. This may result in:
  1. lack of awareness that sensitive body parts should be covered before engaging in culinary operations
  2. spilling boiling water on sensitive body parts
  3. trying to add dried caffeine-bearing substance to water before, rather than after, heating water
  4. gloop in the bottom of the water boiling device that later causes you to throw out and replace device rather than explain to roommates/parents/SO the circumstances in which it got there
The following symptoms are not suitable for self-diagnosis of caffeine addiction related delirium tremens as they are experienced in a broad range of caffeine addiction cases which don't necessarily feature delirium tremens:
  1. inability to sleep due to lack of blood in the caffeine stream.
  2. caffeine craving being the first sentient thought on waking
  3. use of caffeine craving as a motivating agent to get the user out of bed after a duration of sleep
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[Ed. node (Gz): fixed list tags 12/28/2001]