A 35-year-old woman comes to the office due to recent depressed mood . She feels sad and unmotivated, sleeps 14 hours a day, and has poor concentration at work, and fleeting thoughts of suicide. The patient has no medical history and laboratory evaluation is unremarkable. She is diagnosed with major depression and treated with bupropion and psychotherapy. On next follow up visit, the patient's depressive symptoms are improved, but she is now distressed by a significant decrease in appetite. Further history suggests that the patient consumes very little food each day (a pattern that preceded her use of bupropion) and exercises excessively. her phhysician increased the medication dose Which of the following potential side effects of the increased dose would be of primary concern?
A) Agranulocytosis
B) Hypertension
C) Seizures
D) Sexual dysfunction
E) Stevens-Johnson syndrome
F) Weight gain
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