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Yesterday was July 4th of course and I ended up going to a party where I admittedly drank a ton. It's 5pm the next day here and I still feel awful, and have bad hangxiety. But more to the point, I started bupropion three weeks ago and haven't really felt a change. I was sober for a while up until recently when I started drinking again, a couple days a week.

I'm wondering if anyone who has been on bupropion for a long time thinks that alcohol blunted the benefits of the drug? Am I just basically canceling it out by drinking?

I just hit the 3 week mark on 300mg XL and overall I feel mostly like I did before I started. But I was just sitting here in bed and it kind of struck me that I may have already experienced a change.

One of my BIGGEST problems is anxiety, and in particular it leads to avoidant behavior that ends up getting me in trouble. I don't look at an email from someone because I'm too anxious about what it says, anxious about opening the text from a girl I like, anxious about my boss hounding me over Slack. So I oftentimes just ignore the messages until I finally drink and get liquid courage to look at them. It's probably my biggest flaw and I've had it all throughout my twenties.

But it hit me sitting in bed just now... the past few days I've looked at messages immediately without getting anxious. I don't know if it's just a fluke but I was like "holy shit" when I realized I've suddenly been looking at messages and responding to them straight away. Crazy!!

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I started Wellbutrin on June 14th at a friend's recommendation because I've always had general anxiety, low energy, and low level depression. She told me she started taking it and immediately felt positive effects. Unfortunately for me, not much has happened besides I am suddenly really irritable and getting mad at people over nothing.

Somewhat ironically, one person I blew up on is... the friend who recommended Wellbutrin. She was reading my messages one night and wasn't responding and I just blew up on her. The next day she started typing out a message and taking a long time, stopping/starting, and I blew up on her again. At that point she said "I'm done" and hasn't been talking to me since.

I've also been getting mad at other people and things for no reason, and this is as someone who has always been docile and low energy. I notice the difference that I'm suddenly being an asshole.

I'm going to give my friend some space and hopefully will be able to fix this... I feel like blaming my behavior on the drugs is a cop out but I really do think it's why I've been suddenly getting mad and aggressive with people!!

I just started Wellbutrin 300mg XL about two weeks ago. Not really feeling much yet but I'm hoping it will help with my chronic overthinking, low energy and motivation, and general anxiety.

One other thing I've heard is that it can potentially suppress nicotine cravings. Has anyone experienced this? I tried Zyn last year just out of curiosity because all my friends do it and unfortunately I have a bad addiction to it now. I get irritable when I run out and don't have more, constantly have to run to the gas station to get more etc.

Has anyone found it reduced these cravings?

I started wellbutrin last Saturday, as instructed I did 150mg XL for the first week then upped it to 300mg yesterday. I decided to get on it from a friend's advice. I've always had general anxiety, overthinking everything, and just low energy/fatigue. I decided because everyone always tells me I'm anxious that I needed to finally try something. I've never used a prescription drug before this.

Anyway, the past week I've been really sad/depressed, overthinking like crazy, basically haven't left my house the whole week. I think it's the drugs doing this -- has anyone else felt more sad and low-energy the first week? It's like all my mental health issues are heightened right now.

Every Mexican place on the island is just so bland... Dos Mas is gone but their burrito was a bland brick. Same thing with El Barco, La Choza, Sharky's. BLAND! It's like they don't use any seasoning. I'm a 29 year old white man who is bad at cooking but even I know you need to put spices on the chicken and vegetables, maybe some cilantro in the rice, what's hard to understand? With restaurants here I always have to douse it in hot sauce and that helps a bit but not by much.

Putting aside burritos, are there any particular menu item from a Mexican place on the island I should try that is decent?

Just want some thoughts. I [29M] went on three dates with a woman [29F] I met on Hinge. First date was April 11, we chatted over coffee for like 2 hours. A week after that, dinner at a restaurant nearby. Third was a hike where I baked some cookies and brought them.

I thought things were going pretty well. She was unusually engaged with me — we were both reciprocating a couple messages back and forth daily, she enthusiastically agreed to every meetup I suggested, and she suggested some things we could do herself. She had to fly out for a brief work trip the day after our last meetup, and when she got there she started sending me photos of things she saw. But since she returned from her trip last Wednesday the messages have turned into a trickle. I suggested something we could do over this last weekend and she said she was too tired from her trip and would need to skip. It set off alarm bells because it was the first time she's turned me down and hasn't suggested an alternative. But sure, maybe she is a bit burnt out, that seems plausible. I texted her again Saturday, we chatted briefly about our weekends, I sent something for her to read that I thought she'd like... and nothing since then.

Should I let her message me if she wants, or should I send her something lighthearted I've wanted to send and see if she picks back up? The drop-off in engagement from her trip was so sudden, i don't know what happened. I've been thinking over our dates and admittedly I don't think we've gotten past surface level yet, and we haven't been intimate, but it normally takes me at least a few dates to get there.

My gut is telling me I should probably just wait for her to say something if she wants?

Welp, here we are. I [29M] matched with a woman [29F] on Hinge maybe a little more than a month ago. First date was 3 hours over coffee, then she suggested dinner a week later. After that hike and boba a week later; finally another day we went to an art festival, drove around, had a good time.

This was the first time in my memory when a woman actually seemed enthusiastic about me. Remembering everything I told her, enthusiastically texting me about her life, asking lots of questions, speaking in "we" about stuff we should go do. Then she said she was going on a brief work trip and started sending me pictures from the trip. Thought everything was fine and going great.

Last day of her trip she has a long day at a conference before she's going to get a 5+ hour flight back, so I assumed she would be busy and I didn't need to bother her. Sent her one brief message just updating her on something we'd discussed previously, assumed she may not respond until the next day because of the travel and... nothing. Never heard from her again. She kept looking at my IG Story for a few more days and was gone.

Craziness! She was so sweet and good at communication, I really didn't expect it. It was so sudden too, going from warm and effusive to gone, just like that.

At least it was a brief romance so I think I'll be okay after a few days but man, I really expected her to at least tell me she wasn't feeling it anymore. I've never ghosted anyone before, I've definitely sent messages saying I don't think something is going anywhere, but never just completely disappeared