Comparing Bupropion

For Depression: I'm impressed. bupropion works where Zoloft didn't. At 2 doses of 100 mg a day, I didn't feel anything at first. I went up to 3x100mg a day, and it did help the depression! However, at 3x100mg, I was feeling twitchy and anxious, and quick to anger, so I ended up going back to 2. I felt better than before, but it wasn't quite enough. I talked to my doctor and we adjusted it to 3x75mg, and that seems just right. In my experience, after finding the right dosage: I just feel normal again. The gloom of depression is gone, and things that should feel good, do. There's no "high", and I don't feel like it's changed me as a person, it just removed the lingering causeless depression I was dealing with. The only side effect I have is that it seems to cut down any and all cravings, including appetite, but not to a worrying degree. Long story short: Bupropion is subtle, but powerful. It took some time and dosage tweaks to get it just right, but I feel much better on it with almost no side effects.

For Depression: I started taking 150mg Bupropion SR twice a day for severe depression in January 2016 after being on 150mg Sertraline once a day for almost a year and having very little success with it. The first two weeks of taking Bupropion I was constantly dizzy and nauseous, but I waited it out and after two weeks I was fine. My depression didn't suddenly disappear like I hoped it would, but I found myself genuinely laughing and crying which felt so good. Now I've been on it for around 5 months and I'm slowly but surely getting better. I can function like a normal human and live my life now and it's fantastic. This medication isn't widely used for depression in NZ (which is where I live) but it's definitely worth talking to your doctor about.