Took it for a couple months. Hated it. It stabilized me right at "everything sucks and I'm p---ed off at it and nobody better say s--- about anything." It worked for some other people I know. I started gaining more weight on it, and hated how I felt so I stopped taking it. A change in doctors changed meds too and I've been on lamictal since, but other meds added and subtracted since. Watch out for the anger. I've seen it on more people than just me.