It definitely has its pros and cons. For me personally I don't prefer to be on it for a long term. It really helped with controlling my hypomania and brought me out of depression(which I never thought it would). However, it started to make me nauseous, cognitively slowed me down, made me forgetful. Also frequent blood check. You will find a lot of mix reviews. So only way to find out is to try it, like I did, as you can get off the meds whenever you want(through your pdocs advice). Who knows you might tolerate it well