Modafinil

[snarp]

Second day on the stuff. Much more alert and focused than normal, wow. I have gotten things done! Remained focused on unpleasant necessary tasks for long periods of time without exhausting myself!

Cons: it's not helping noticeably for the physical fatigue. I'm also shaky and irritable in spite of l-theanine - not as unpleasantly as with a lot of caffeine, because I'm not wandering off into morbid lines of thought as is my caffeinated wont, but I keep needing to remind myself to unclench my jaw/fist/other-clenchables. Visual processing is unsurprisingly worse than usual.

Still, definitely very helpful! I decided to stay off kratom while I get used to this stuff, and so far have felt no need need to re-think that in terms of cognitive state. When I'm not in pain, my mood is sufficiently under my control lately that the euphoric effect of the stuff actually feels intrusive - that's not something I want when I'm not otherwise anhedonic.

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[snarp]

Good luck!

L-theanine is very safe, yeah - there's a lot of it in green tea, so if it were dangerous, East Asia would probably have noticed and switched beverages by now. The worst problem you're likely to see with it is grogginess if you take too much in the morning.