Hi guys,

I resently stopped taking wellbutrin, it gave me racing thoughts, severe worry and suicidal thoughts, and really bad dreams, I've been off for about 2 and a 1/2 weeks or so, and everytime I lay down to sleep, I feel like i'm going crazy and the dreams just will not stop and i'm not even on any medicine anymore, does anyone know why I keep have these really vivid dreams almost real, do you guys know how to stop them, a long time ago, I never used to dream at all, now I remember them in complete detail, please guys if any of you have had experiences like this, what did you do?? Thanks for the help!!

First off. I am a sufferer, not a doctor. For a while. I saw my dreams as a symptom of depression. At the advise of my therapist, ( for the last 15 years), I began to keep a note pad near my bed, and forced myself to write down my dreams as soon as I could. They can be a great source of seeing into your inner thoughts, whether you remember them or not. The best part for me was being analytical took away the fear, and opened my mind to the possibilities of what they ( the dreams) meant. Use them to your advantage. This course hasn't cured me, but helped to slow down the spiral, and I have some great ideas for books and music lyrics that I am working on!

First off. I am a sufferer, not a doctor. For a while. I saw my dreams as a symptom of depression. At the advise of my therapist, ( for the last 15 years), I began to keep a note pad near my bed, and forced myself to write down my dreams as soon as I could. They can be a great source of seeing into your inner thoughts, whether you remember them or not. The best part for me was being analytical took away the fear, and opened my mind to the possibilities of what they ( the dreams) meant. Use them to your advantage. This course hasn't cured me, but helped to slow down the spiral, and I have some great ideas for books and music lyrics that I am working on!
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Thanks for responding so quickly, I must say I never thought of it that way, its just I think the antidepressants are the cause of them, cause I didn't have them before I started taking them, it just maked me tired to dream all night and wake up like I haven't slept at all, I just want to feel and feel normal which I don't, thanks a lot for what you said, I might try to right them all down!!! Its just if I felt normal I don't think I would have them, like that anyway, thanks again!! If anyone else has any suggestions please leave a post and thanks!!!

This may seem like a strange perspective, but I welcome dreams, because they mean (this is my understanding) that I'm getting into the later sleep stages, and that's something I haven't been able to do in a long time. Sometimes, they are disturbing, or leave me thinking about things I shouldn't (ha!), but I try to look at them as representing just the dream stage of sleep, which I believe is when we are in REM, right? I'm sure some sleep expert on the boards can set me straight.