I suppose I shouldn't be as worried as I am - there are definitely real-life events that are contributing. Instead of making the decision not to do stuff I'd love because it's too much work, and feeling sorry for myself, I've made the decision to do stuff I want even if I could easily rationalize myself out of it.
By the time my appointment rolls around, one of those events/decisions will be resolved - the one that's dominating my mind this week - and the other one will be well on its way there. I guess some of my worries come from the fact that I'm not at all used to making smallish decisions on an emotional level (big ones, sure, but not little ones).
This is drug number two, actually - I was on Zoloft over the summer and it did a fat lot of nothing (I had started out at 25 mg and was up to 100 by the time I came back to Boston, with absolutely no change, except a placebo effect of "yay I has meds" that got me through the end of last semester). Something about my experience must have suggested that SSRIs as a class don't work well for me, because rather than "let's try $otherSSRI" I got "here's something completely different."
Wellbutrin worked pretty well with reasonable side effects when I was just taking 100 mg/day, but you're supposed to take the sustained-release form twice a day because it only lasts 12 hours, therefore 200 mg/day, which seems to be too much for me. Googling suggests that the extended release (once a day form) comes in a handy 150 mg size, so I'd want to give that a shot before switching to something else entirely. (I seem to be very sensitive to bupropion - the target adult dose for most people is 300 mg and it's rated up to 450, and if I tried to take that much I'd probably jump right out of my skin.)
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By the time my appointment rolls around, one of those events/decisions will be resolved - the one that's dominating my mind this week - and the other one will be well on its way there. I guess some of my worries come from the fact that I'm not at all used to making smallish decisions on an emotional level (big ones, sure, but not little ones).
This is drug number two, actually - I was on Zoloft over the summer and it did a fat lot of nothing (I had started out at 25 mg and was up to 100 by the time I came back to Boston, with absolutely no change, except a placebo effect of "yay I has meds" that got me through the end of last semester). Something about my experience must have suggested that SSRIs as a class don't work well for me, because rather than "let's try $otherSSRI" I got "here's something completely different."
Wellbutrin worked pretty well with reasonable side effects when I was just taking 100 mg/day, but you're supposed to take the sustained-release form twice a day because it only lasts 12 hours, therefore 200 mg/day, which seems to be too much for me. Googling suggests that the extended release (once a day form) comes in a handy 150 mg size, so I'd want to give that a shot before switching to something else entirely. (I seem to be very sensitive to bupropion - the target adult dose for most people is 300 mg and it's rated up to 450, and if I tried to take that much I'd probably jump right out of my skin.)