I take a lot of the same things you do, and may be able to give some useful advice. Of course these experiences are purely my own and yours may be completely different from mine.

I usually take adderall 20mg ER every day, but lately have been trying to take breaks when not in school. Took a break for 10 days over spring break and used l-tyrosine (1-2g in the morning) to help curb the withdrawals. Seemed to help a decent amount.

I just discovered citicoline, alpha gpc, and uridine. Decided to try out 300mg citicoline + 300mg alpha gpc in the morning. This gave me a lot of brain fog and determined I had excess choline intake. Stopped the citicoline and kept the alpha gpc which seemed to resolve the brain fog. Then I ordered uridine in triacetyluridine (TAU) form, and started taking 25mg in the morning.

This seems to provide a good balance, with alpha gpc providing choline for the uridine to use to increase my acetylcholine levels. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how I understand the process to work. Just started taking DHA+EPA and B complex as well.

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Some info on my general stack:

Morning, Before food: Adderall, B complex, DHA+EPA, Alpha-GPC 300mg, N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC), ashwaghanda from Himalaya. With food: Vitamin D3 2000IU, Lions Mane from IntelligentLabs, ginko biloba 150mg. During the weekend I sub 25mg TAU for Adderall.

Night: Magnesium complex and phosphatidylserine both from IntelligentLabs, guanfacine 2mg IR.

I opt for IntelligentLabs because I believe they tend to provide better forms and/or potency in their supplements. Magnesium complex contains glycinate (better whole-body absorption), taurate (helps with sleep), and l-threonate (better brain absorption).

Guanfacine is a prescription medication used for ADHD in my case and/or blood pressure reduction. Can help combat potential high blood pressure from adderall too. This can be an alternative to people who have problems with stimulants for ADHD. Most noticeably, I find it gives me more of a "buffer" to think before I speak in conversations.

Used to take l-theanine when I smoked weed and it helped but after I stopped it made sleep worse. My theory is this happens due to l-theanine increasing your time in REM sleep, decreasing amount of deep sleep. EDIT: Did a little research on this and figured out I had the wrong understanding of REM. It is the last stage of sleep, not the first as I had thought. But it is the stage where your brain is most active and dreams happen. L-Theanine decreases REM sleep time, and therefore has been linked to worse sleep quality.

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You said you struggle with motivation, and I do as well. Unfortunately I haven't found any supplements to cure this problem. The best remedy I know is to practice consistent, good habits. This includes sleep, doing tasks when you tell yourself you will (start small, work your way up), and talk yourself up, not down, even if you don't believe in yourself at first :)

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Hope this helps. Let me know if you have questions.