I say I am not bipolar but do think I may have been slightly bipolar (I think we are all on a spectrum when it comes to mental health issues) and the Wellbutrin turned me from depression (or perhaps gave me an aggravated kind of depression rather than a black, bottomless pit kind) but activated my anxiety so it became even worse and made me unable to sleep. When the doctor asked if I felt better, I said, "Yes" because depression is much, much worse than anxiety but I when I was first prescribed I was working in a very stressful job then would come home all wound up, cook dinner (while drinking wine to try to calm down/feel better from work) then be too wound up to go to sleep and end up sometimes finishing the bottle while everyone else was asleep then get up before everyone else to cook breakfast for my family before I went to work. The Wellbutrin (bupropion) certainly gave me the energy to keep this schedule up without rest. I was NOT drinking this much before the Bupropion because I would fall asleep much earlier--usually before everyone else in my family! I did take the bupropion in the morning. I now take 100 mg instead of 300 mg and have asked my psychiatrist if I can go down to 75 mg (the lowest dose)--she wants me to wait (because she has been adjusting my other meds and because of the issues going on in my life/cancer and family issues). Reducing the dose helped me a lot.

I went off the bupropion because my husband and I both became unemployed and I decided that I would save money by not going to the doctor (we had no insurance). By the time I realized I was in trouble--I could not get into the doctor--you had to make appointments 30 days in advance...