"when i got on this i was self-diagnosed with depression, and tried about a dozen antidepressants without getting better. my gyno, who was prescribing, said i had to see a psychiatrist because he was scared he&#039;d &#039;scramble my brain&#039;. i was diagnosed with a-typical bipolar and put on geodon and lamictal. the lamictal did nothing, but in 3 days i went from work or just being in bed the rest of the time gorging on food and not wanting to be bothered to feeling much much better. i started on 30mg and am now on 80, about 10 years later. i highly recommend this for bipolar. i&#039;ve lately started getting into bipolar depression again, though not like it used to be, and am trying a medicine with great reviews that i&#039;d never heard of called symbyax."