Cognitive exhaustion

Cognitive exhaustion can be described as feelings of mild to extreme cognitive fatigue which can last anywhere from several hours to days and is often felt as a rebound effect after experiences with stimulants. These feelings of exhaustion can potentially include a sustained sense of general suppressed mental clarity, emotional instability and agitation along side of specific subjective effect components such as thought deceleration, information processing suppression, delineation of thought, depression, irritability and anxiety.

Psychoactive substances

Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:

• 2-FMA
• A-PVP
• Amphetamine
• Caffeine
• Cocaine
• Ethylphenidate
• Mephedrone
• Methamphetamine
• Methylone

See also

• Subjective effects index
• Deliriants - Subjective effects
• Dissociatives - Subjective effects
• Psychedelics - Subjective effects