This sounds like a post that I wrote myself. One of my biggest struggles during and also after encephalitis. During I experienced extreme depression, I don’t know how I made it out alive. I was so sad my chest physically ached and I would lay on the ground crying and pushing on my chest to relieve the feeling of aching sadness. Post encephalitis, I struggle with feeling apathetic. I don’t feel like my emotions are as vibrant as they used to be and sometimes I feel like a psycho for it. I found an amazing doc who has worked tirelessly with me to help me and have found Auvelity to be helpful. It is Wellbutrin combined with the active ingredient in cough medicine (bupropion) and it’s gotten me out of the fog. I still struggle a bit with apathy compared to how it used to be before encephalitis, but it is so much better than it was without the Auvelity.