I took it for about 2 years. It helped stabilize me, so that was really good, but it ended up flattening my emotions. My facial expression was flat, and I didn't like how I felt. So i took myself off it against pdoc advise, which i know is usually a bad idea, but i felt i needed to do it. Coming off it was hard because the withdrawal lasted about 2 weeks. I've been doing ok since (stopped in Aug), but I did go through a really bad depressive episode in Dec, so that might have been part of the reason. Anyways, my feelings about it are mixed.

One thing though, my dose was 10 mg, and i tried taking it one night when i had been off it for a while. It hit me so hard! Put me into a weird half asleep/half awake state with akithesia that lasted a few hours. So if i take it for sleep again i'm going with a lower dose, but i probably won't take if again. Point is, start lower and build up.