YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

I recently told my psychiatrist that being on Wellbutrin alone felt like taking cocaine and she said that that was highly inaccurate (she is a bit of a dick though). Has anyone else felt like that after being in a major depressive episode and starting antidepressants? My mind was just faster at trum...

Hello, I am climbing out of a major depressive episode that lasted a few months. Wellbutrin, Risperidone and Clonazepam: the concoction that saved my life. I have been on Risperidone 0.25 mg and Wellbutrin XL 300mg for five weeks. I started the Risperidone a week or so later, actually, because my su...

Hi, I am in the middle of my first week on Wellbutrin 300mg. I started with 150mg for one week. I can't focus. I feel confused and distressed. Now I have a week of Pro Risperidone for a week to calm me down so I don't wake up in the middle of the night with feelings of inadequacy and dread weighing ...

Hi Squash, I know exactly how you feel. I am mid-semester right now and have an impossible time focusing. Reading your post actually made me jealous of how coherently you expressed your thoughts. I feel completely braindead as I slowly climb out of a Depression with the help of CBT and a new prescri...