This may not belong here, but I know that a lot of folks here are on antidepressant/antianxiety meds and this may be of help. Granted, it’s anecdotal. A few days ago though, someone put up a post here about bupropion, so, here goes.
I took bupropion, specifically, Wellbutrin SR for a few years, ending about 15 years ago. It was probably the most helpful of the antidepressants I tried back then, although I can’t imagine anything working better for me than micronized progesterone does now; a lifelong struggle with dark depressive episodes and generalized anxiety was effectively over within a day or two, and neither has re-emerged in the six years I’ve been taking it, not to mention the ruinous impulse behavior that came along with them.
One evening in about 2011 while still taking bupropion I was at a neighbor’s house, and we were playing with their infant daughter, that fascinating game of “throw stuff off the high chair and make the grownups catch it.” My totally unathletic neighbor was effortlessly catching the stuffed giraffe we were playing with, while my hands kept closing behind it as it fell to the floor. My neighbor and I were both somewhat alarmed by this, as I was still spending a lot of time on motorcycles, including working at the track for a performance riding school. I reflected that I’d been having some close calls, and had been dropping my motorcycle a lot, both in the garage and at gas stops. Thinking back, it seemed to coincide with the time I’d been on the bupropion. I knew that stopping the med cold was probably a bad idea, but I was kind of freaked out, and I stopped anyway. I didn’t have any adverse effects that I noticed, but the close calls and drops went away.
At the time, my social life was largely the women’s motorcycle group my partner and I were riding with. Pretty much everyone in the group was middle-aged or older, but in the past several years, a number of them, all lifelong riders, had either quit riding, or switched to trikes or sidecar rigs because of close calls on the road, and those embarrassing drops. I called five or so of them up, and said, “Can I ask a personal question?” They were all taking sustained-release bupropion. Slow reaction time and/or getting in accidents is not a documented side-effect of bupropion, but really, I don’t think it’s something they’d test for or even believe. I’m not recommending anybody stop any antidepressant cold, but it’s something to think about.