Another experience with Welbutrin that I think I should put on here:
My girlfriend was taking it for a month or two when one weekend she became a completely different person, bent on killing herself. It was the scariest Weekend of my life. She hid razors everywhere and still has scars.
She was so determined, but the worst part was that it wasnt even her in there at all. I didnt know that girl sneaking razors into bed. I couldnt sleep at night because i knew that if i did she would sneak away and die. she told me this. she left for work that saturday morning and told me she may not come home. I felt so helpless. I did everything I could. She bought a pack of heavy duty box cutters at work and brought them home to use on her arms. I even cut my own hand to show her how it feels to watch someone you love hurt themself. (crazy on my part i know but i was so scared and desperate) I still have a beautifully ugly scar from that one. I cant tell you how many times i almost had to break down the bathroom door that weekend. I had to supervise every time she used the toilet because if i didnt she WOULD cut herself. Finally she snapped out of it and just stopped wanting to cut herself. The welbutrin went down the toilet.

Man, Freaky!! I was only ever on anti-depressants for 3 days - not long enough for anything to happen. All I remember is having dreams that I SWORE were someone else's, and I was just watching them.

A friend of mine had an issue with them, where EVERY single anti-depressant she tried gave her all the possible side-effects - even St. John's Wort which is supposed to have very few. It was a long struggle to find one she could take long enough for it to help her.

Once a long time ago I overdosed on Welbutrin. I took way too many and I had a full spectrum of hallucinations. I saw weird things made of shadows that I knew werent there but also things I swore existed until a day later when i snapped out of it. I woke up and my girlfriend wasnt in bed with me and instead there was a couple of people i didnt know. i was pissed. i was convinced she'd gone off with some girl i had dreamed she'd cheated on me with before i woke up. i went out to my car, there were lots of people outside even though it was 2 am, and my house was also full. i left her a really crazy voicemail about feeling rejected and hurt. then i went back inside, past the people, and there she was in bed. i was so pissed she'd snuck back in without me seeing that i woke her and asked her if she'd had fun at the club.
also i saw a bottlecap in the toilet. it wasnt there.
There was a strong desire to vomit, which caused a lot of dry heaving after i'd emptied my stomach.
Another side effect of taking that much welbutrin is a greatly increased risk of seizures, but that didnt happen to me.
Oh, and my heart rate was steadily very high all night.
(I did go to the hospital by the way, they monitored me and wanted to keep me for 24 hrs but it was just in case of a seizure. we broke out.)

complicated to sum up in one answer, that's for sure! let's see... i haven't had any real bad side effects from them, but there's a couple that really suck to have withdrawls from. i've tried a few where i didn't really notice anything - good or bad. i had one that worked great for a year or so and then it seemed like it just stopped working. wierd.

overall, it's been a good experience and i needed the jump-start they gave me at the time i got on some! i don't know how i would have made it through that phase of my life without them.

Well, I went through a bad period during late 2001. Too much work caused my brain to suffer some kind of chemical alteration. I went through a panic attacks, a panic disorder that was cured using anti depressants (Clonazepam and Wellbutrin). Clonazepam was for a short term period, Wellbutrin is the one I take every day. I don't have words to explain how bad it was, how awful, terrible I felt during that period. My experience with anti depressants: They were a life saver!

I was on Lexapro for a while and it made "Mr Happy" not so happy.
Found a new Doc andgot on Wellbutrin. It worked great for me and now I'm at the point where the Doc thinks I can come off it. They try to get you off the stuff in about a year.

I think it's helped me regain my balance. I feel badly for those answers I read where there were problems, that's some scary stuff.

It just happened to work well for me and I'm grateful.

I've been on Paxil and Effexor (for OCD) for around 7 years and they've pretty much saved my well being.
I know they can cause addiction tantamount to cocaine addiction though. Also, they zone some people out. Not me though...

I have been on Lovan (Prozac) for quite a few years now, and have had no problems, except for a dry mouth.

I was on Paxil for almost a year and I seriuosly think it made things worse. I lost any sense of reality when it came to things like money and would over react to stuff. And if I missed one I got so sick I would have to go home. I finally took myself off it because the doctor wouldn't. And not long after that I was fine.

Bad is all I can say. I wouldnt go near them after about a week 'cos I can plainly say that it scared the living shit out of me.