"i was prescribed this medication several years ago for anxiety disorder and depression with serious insomnia. it worked like a charm to help me get a really good night&#039;s sleep and saved my sanity. i took it daily for about 2 years.. it really knocked me out, so that if someone woke me in the middle of the night i was pretty much incoherent and felt heavily drugged. i did feel alert and rested in the morning. worst thing for me was a rare side effect that caused my bone marrow to stop producing white blood cells. a swollen lymph node resulted in a blood test, which showed no wbc&#039;s at all. scared of cancer, but my doc told me to stop taking this drug and the tests afterward were back to normal. i suggest you get blood tests if on this med."