:(Overtime I found myself upping the WB to 450mgs, and developing a tolerence to Adderall. To recircut my meds, I decided ---- dumb to do so ---- to only take 150mgs of the WB in SR form, and to hold-off taking until late in the afternoon, when my Addy has past it's halflife. Bad mistake, without the full dose WB, I found myslf tired, fatuigued, but at the sametime aggitated and anxious, needing to move - I felt awful. I freaked and popped a 300XL, and within an hour felt engergetic and in a happy somewhat joyful mood. I walked my dog about 3 miles and could have gone for 10. ... I am not liking this dependence, and unlike Adderall which washes out of your system after a few hours - the WB lingers on and on, which should minimize withdraw, but I found this to not be the case. I will discuss with my Dr. on Wed, I feel I need the WB - but it has jaws of steel around my energy and mood. I really really like the 24/7 coverage for my ADHD, and not feeling depressed. Adderall isn't reccomended 24/7, leaving the only other option Straterra - which zapped all my energy and made me zombie. I am much more responsive to WB's dopamine reuptake I guess. Not sure what to do - but the delemma is ALL I think about or obsess over.

Frankly, I don't see the problem. You wanna talk to your doctor about slightly reducing Wellbutrin for a while to see if that allows your system time to readjust. Sounds OK.

But I gotta tell you, this whole "dependence" argument--totally makes no sense in my book. I'm dependent, quite so, on my middle-class job. And you know what? If you took it away from me, I would suffer.

Now if you insist that going off meds is the thing to do, here's the way I suggest it's good to think about things:
1.) use the meds to create the absolutely most amazing, fantastic, productive, supportive, creative, prosperous, joyful, spiritually-grounded life you want!
2.) Then after you get into a groove of good habits--such that you do them easily and consistently over a period of several years--then think about talking to your shrink about slightly reducing the meds ...

3.) But unless you have reached #1, I think it's foolish to think of #2.

Good luck.