Wellbutrin has made me a different person. It woke me up. I was sleeping 16 hours a day at one point and pumping a lot of caffeine into my body to try and stay alert. This, as my friend Doug would say, was not a good and loving thing, because I have osteoporosis and caffeine leaches calcium from the bones.

Wellbutrin has not turned me into a zombie. I say this as a person who values her higher mental faculties very much.

I receive far more personal satisfaction from writing on here than I ever did from drinking.

You might want to try some form of meditation to cope with the anxiety attacks. My T said that several of his other patients have done this with great success. It's a great way to focus the mind on something else, which at times even I have to do (ie medical tests). Medical affairs are one thing sure to send me into panic mode.