I don't know about now; it probably wouldn't be great now. Back when I was working it was very difficult to sedate me enough to sleep but not so much that I couldn't wake up. So I was just sedated all the time and dragging and it made work very hard. So we tried a little provigil and the only time it made me manic is if I was kind of on the edge anyway and in that case I would feel the mania pretty soon after taking it and a PRN benzo would usually kind of protect me. I never had it cause a real problem but I was also always on a lot of sedation (for a long time I was on 3200 mg of depakote and 300-600 mg of Seroquel plus a benzo and maybe other meds that were sedating (APs) or occasionally sleeping pills that didn't work.) So it was kind of like the antidote to the sedation. It took a long time to decide to try this and it was monitored really carefully but it did work fine for me and I think I was on one or the other for 5 or 6 years.