Quitting WelbutrinXL (bupropion)

I am an early 20’s male undergraduate student. I started taking Wellbutrin a couple months ago. Started with 150mg, went to 300 after one month. It has helped me out a ton with my depression especially regarding my energy levels and motivation to get anything done.

However, I can’t help but feel its making me less intelligent in a way. I forget so many things now. I can barely remember anything I learn in classes or from assignments. I have to incessantly check notes and PowerPoint slides for the same bits of material over and over. And its not limited to class work, I can barely remember what I do in the week or even what I did with friends just a day or two ago. For a while now I’ve even been forgetting simple words in conversations. I feel I’ve never had this problem before starting the medication.

Even though its making it easier for me to get up and start school work/get to class, it feels like I’m so much less efficient at getting it done that it just isn’t worth it. It’s pissing me off, and I kind of just want to stop now and live with whatever side effects come from that. As long as I don’t feel stupid.

I would talk to my doctor, but I can’t get an appointment until halfway through next month. I don’t know if I can handle another month of school like this.

Basically I have two questions:

1. If I quit it cold turkey how likely is it to mess me up even more.

2. Is it possible to ‘wean’ myself off the medication by taking my 300mg dose once every other day, or is that just as bad as cold turkey.

I know quitting medications like this is a bad idea in general, but poking around the internet I have heard that bupropion is likelier to have less severe withdrawal symptoms. Any advice is appreciated.