Big on weight gain, but no sexual side affects. I take it along with lamictal, because lamictal helped with depression, and depakote takes care of mania very well. It's not a med I would have recommended for depression, but I'm not the doctor.

For anybody who has problems with hair falling out, I had that big time, 13 years ago, but then I switched from either the generic to the name brand or vise versa and it stopped completely. I take generic now and I don't have any problems, but we can be affected differently at different times, so I'm really not sure whether it was from name brand to generic or not, but if you're having problems I highly recommend trying a change.