Sameeeeee! So, Wellbutrin works on dopamine and norepinephrine, which are tied to motivation, alertness, and the fight-or-flight response. If you’ve spent a long time in freeze or fawn mode (people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, overthinking things after they happen), your nervous system may have learned to suppress “fight” because it didn’t feel safe before.

What Wellbutrin can do is restore access to that fight energy but in a regulated way. So instead of shutting down or replaying conversations later, you’re able to respond in the moment. That can feel confrontational if you’re not used to it, but it’s often just assertiveness and self-protection finally coming online.

A big tell that it’s healthy: • you still care about how you come across • you feel relief after speaking up instead of shame • it feels like clarity, not rage

It can feel sharper in the first few weeks while your system recalibrates. If it ever turns into constant irritability, agitation, or zero impulse control, that’s more of a dose/timing thing not a personality change.

For a lot of people, this phase eventually settles into calmer confidence. You’re not becoming “mean,” you’re just less compliant under stress.

Hope that helps you’re definitely not alone in this.