Nonviolent communication is rather weird and robotic - you can just talk normally, I like to think I'm quite a good communicator in terms of both listening and

Nonviolent communication is rather weird and robotic - you can just talk normally, I like to think I'm quite a good communicator in terms of both listening and explaining. I wouldn't worry about me - it doesn't make it difficult to heal, and my therapist is already well aware of it (and obviously the fact that I have a therapist means I'm pursuing conventional means of working on my anxiety, if you were worried I was trying to "hack" mental health). If you're mostly ignorant about modafinil, what reason do you have to be worried? Are you assuming I haven't done my research, or that perhaps I'm willing to take risks with my health to pursue productivity while not directly dealing with my anxiety? Because that isn't the case - modafinil is extremely safe, and I am pursuing long-term improvements while using it to fill the gap. If you're interested in nonviolent communication then I would assume you are wanting to empathise better with others, and communicate more equitably. I would suggest that rather than working from your initial judgement, you could use Socratic questioning to better understand the other person's perspective and decision-making before jumping to conclusions. I use this technique all the time to navigate such situations. For example: your initial judgement of "I still feel a little uneasy about it and worry that it's making it difficult for you to heal from whatever trauma has brought about your anxiety" hinges on presumptions that: 1. Modafinil impedes my ability to make longer-term progress 2. I am using modafinil instead of a longer-term approach, as opposed to supplementing a longer-term approach with a short-term stopgap Rather than assuming these presumptions are true, you can probe using questions like "are you not concerned that modafinil might make focusing more difficult in the long term?" or "have you considered seeking more traditional help with focus, such as a doctor or therapist?". This usually leads to either learning on your part, or at least a direction in the conversation where you can identify where the disconnect between your thinking and mine is.