It was my first anti-depressant at age 14. It seemed to help, for awhile. I didn't have any weird side effects and it made me less depressed. I stopped trying to commit suicide, at least.

Eventually it did for me like melissa.recovering and I started hallucinating (on a much higher dose, after several years.) It should have been the first clue for my docs to realize that I'm bipolar, but it took another 15 years for that to happen.

I ended up switching to Effexor and then Zoloft before finding that Wellbutrin seemed to help more for me than the others had. At that point I stopped SI entirely, which was a big win.