It was prescribed for me to reduce anxiety. It sort of does. I still depend on a tricyclic (Nortriptyline) as my main med for depression.

I do find that gabapentin helps a lot with discomfort/pain/muscle spasm that I get in my neck due to arthritis there. That was just kind of a happy coincidence. Recently, a friend of mine who had fusion of vertebrae in his neck was prescribed gabapentin to help his pain.

It seems to cause a kind of "spacey feeling" that makes me feel kind of more relaxed. But I am still having serious cycling, so I'm not that impressed with it.