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Quitting Wellbutrin

Postby Feenix » Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:48 am

I apologize for the long message, it's a bit of a three parter. Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you!

Well I have been on Wellbutrin for the past 3 years, and chose to go off it sometime last May. So I would say I have been off of it for a solid seven months. I have had ups and downs (within a moderate window), but I feel pretty stable. I was wondering how long would it take of being off of buproprion (well.) before I would "return to depression" IF I were going to at all? Would 7 months of feelings pretty normal be enough of a test to see if I'm fine without it?

My family has a history of chronic depression, but I feel that in my case it has always been more circumstantial and related to my previous inability to self-soothe; (my mother's depression, and my dad's neglect contributing to that)

For the past week I've been feeling really deadened and numb, and while my sister describes this cause to go back on my Anti-D's, I would argue that my circumstances have been really difficult, and I should wait until they improve before deciding, so that I will know once and for all (If I'm able to get happy again), if I can do it on my own, or if I really need the anti-depressants. I will give you a brief list of the things I've been dealing with since October, to give you a better idea of why I'm feeling so numb:

An abortion, a break-up, moving, being unemployed, not being very social (I'm an extrovert), and moving back into my mom's house.

Thank you again for all and any advice. *Much appreciated*
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Re: Quitting Wellbutrin

Postby rainbow_sprinkles » Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:36 am

you've been through quite a lot in the last few months! it definitely makes sense that you'd be feeling depressed right now, all medication issues aside. and I completely understand why you feel it might make more sense to wait for your circumstances to settle down to something closer to "normal" to see if you feel like you need back on your meds at that point. however, just to throw another idea out there.... with everything you're going through right now, if you found the wellbutrin helpful in the past, it may help you through this particularly tough time to go back on it until life itself settles down and then maybe try going back off them again. after all, antidepressants are supposed to help level us out, and right now you're clearly quite a bit down the depressed side of the emotional seesaw. why not let them help you back over into the middle when you could actually really use it?

just my $0.02.... I wish you all the best
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