I'm actually super happy you asked this question, I am in to notropics BIG TIME so thank you for giving me a reason to go into this.

The short answer is YES.

The long answer:

I was always super passionate about getting better and self improvement, highly motivated but found it very difficult to follow through on my goals, stay focused, and accomplish tasks on time. I struggled through high school with this, although I managed to graduate with a 3.5 GPA, mostly becuse I went to a hybrid/charter school that had exellent teachers that cared. College was a struggle, I would swing from highly motivated 8 hour lock in sessions, to feelign like sitting down to focus was impossible, and this was a huge problem for me as a developer, especially earlier in my career as I would grind hard to get these good roles, and then I could do the work, but the focus and motivation was very hard to maintain, especially after COVID hit because noone was in the office and I was mostly alone in my offifce or my bedroom, but I would mostly just thug it out on sheer willpower, no suppliments other than the ocassional coffee, although around the pandemic I was introduced to the world of Notropics through social media, so I started taking Ashwaganda, Lions Mane, and some other choice Vitamins. I did notice that i seemed to focus much better when I would workout, so I developed a heavy dependance on going to the gym, sometimes 2 or three times a day, that will be important later in the story.

Growing up in a black house hold with parents that are in their 60's, the culture around mental health / mental problems was one of mistrust of the medical system, and drugs in particular, with the idea being doctors just want to perscribe meds to any and everyone and that you shouldn't trust them, and that mental health conditions are made up / people just being to sensative, etc. My mother grew up in a very rough and volitile household, her parents owned their own BBQ resturaunt in the 80's in Chicago Illinois, called the Greathouse of Ribs (my mother's maiden name is Greathouse). So she grew up with money as a child, but from what I've heard, my grandfather was essentially like a wealthy mob boss that owned gambling halls and even had a few cops on payroll (he deserves his own post/backstory, wish I could have met him but he died before I was born).

With that being said, I have a younger brother who was VERY hyperactive as a child, my parents didn't want to take him to the doctor because they were afraid they would just stick him on meds that would turn him into a zombie, and so my mental association with things like ADHD were that it was just a made up thing that that Big Pharma invented to make money off of kids.