I've been on it for a few years. Seems to work pretty well for me, and I have no side effects once my body adjusts to it. I did have things like drowsiness and feeling spaced out the first few days, and also when I increase it. I just hit 1500mg and have started having menstrual bleeding between periods, but pdoc says it'll probably go away after a month or two. Starting/raising doses by 300mg or less and working up slowly seems to help keep side effects down. I once jumped 600mg at once and had too many problems. It seems to help somewhat with depression, more so than lamictal ever did for me.

Not sure about it helping with anxiety. I take gabapentin with it for that. Also take Latuda because the trileptal isn't strong enough for my depression on it's own.