Need advice please, cutting out nootropics for a week

This comment was posted to reddit on Feb 13, 2023 at 10:49 am and was deleted within 10 hour(s) and 52 minutes.

Firstly - you're gonna be fine mate, you need to know that... if we're talking about nootropics as in actual nootropics that we mostly discuss here and not the "nootropics" people discuss at e.g. r/researchchemicals or r/drugs etc....
Could it be the anxiety you're experiencing is a buildup of some natural worries before the exams? I remember what it was like during my university years... no matter what i'd be doing, how i'd sleep or eat or whatever else, the worries were pretty much unavoidable, for the whole five years, and during every midterm and so on. You get used to it but it never really goes away i think.
In any case you describing your stacks would still shed some more light for us. E.g. while stopping all at once should not "deteriorate performance", nothing so sinister, the actual definition of what a nootropic is defies this, literally, it still might be a good idea to ease up on some spesific ones just for one's peace of mind. For instance, long lasting strong AchEIs like huperzine-a when used for longer periods may be titrated down gradually as our systems still adapt to decreased AchE by upregulating expression of those enzymes, and a sudden elevation of these can sometimes be "felt"... that's not to say it would cause cognition issues outright but it might be worth considering a different approach to just stopping.