Currently using Modafinil, which is rather bad on side effects and risks, hoping for an upgrade next month. So I had to work with that.
The Plan: Use it on about 50 days per year, and make them count. E. g. not on days full with unproductive meetings, but when I have a clear task and time to execute it. A task with high visibility. It'll look to others as if I were rolling 200 days like that.
I was just thinking how at times where I used it, I was much better at detecting and avoiding inappropriate / cringe behaviour on my part. Even when looking back at times where I took a break.
Just imagination from overthinking? I think I'm just terrible at it, and overthinking is just the right amount of thinking for me.