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I took Modafinil for a year after reading Gwern, 100mg twice a week on average. It relieves a lot of anxiety for me and also acted as a great appetite suppresan

I took Modafinil for a year after reading Gwern, 100mg twice a week on average. It relieves a lot of anxiety for me and also acted as a great appetite suppresant, but I also worry it has caused me some cognitive decline. I feel like a bit of a zombie sometimes, kind of dead emotionally, not talking as much, feeling generally dumber. Can't say for sure as I've had a lot of stress in the last few months too, but people should be very careful with these things.

chillingeffect 10y ago
In my experiments with noots my technical cognition didn't shoot up like i was hoping.... But my emotional intelligence did. In many cases for me, similar to yours, I realized the smartest thing in many situations for me was simply to keep quiet! It gave me a neutral place where I could validate peoples' emotions or listen without saying dumb things.