I did a quick search and found that escifulopram goes by the brand name Lexapro. I was on this SSRI Anti-depressant for about 7 years. It's a fine drug and usually starts working in a couple of weeks. For me, it helped a great deal with depression.

If you are bipolar, many would say that an SSRI alone is risky to send you into mania/hypomania, others have great success. Often SSRIs are combined with Mood Stabilizers in bipolar people in the depressive phase. Lots of good information here about all that.

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