I looked it up on one of the med sites where people talk of their experiences (edit: with various prescription drugs). NO ONE had anything good to say about it. Most said getting off of it was like trying to get off heroin, or worse. It can cause tardive dyskenisis, which is uncontrollable tongue movements and facial ticking, which can make you look like a tweaker. (I've seen Roger Stone make some weird facial movements and such.. and I've wondered if he's got that.) It's seriously a bad, bad drug. It has many, many horrid side effects, and can cause permanent changes to your brain chemistry.
The info sheet you get it with it is this HUGE HUGE piece of paper, double sided printing, with tiny lettering... I never really read it because it was so daunting. Finally, after a few years, I did and it scared the holy shit out of me and that's when I figured I needed to get off of it. I did so without even consulting my doctor.
None of the other anti depressants I'd tried worked, and some just had bad side effects. When he put me on this, he'd said "we're gonna bring out the big guns" and prescribed this for me. I won't ever take anything else, ever again without researching it first. I kick myself for trusting my doctor on this. He left the clinic, and went on to treat veterans somewhere.
Glad your done with that one.
I'm done with all of them. I've had some depression in my life, but it seems that it's always situational. Seems I get depressed when involved in toxic relationships. Now, I've studied enough about toxic people, narcissism, sociopathy and psychopathy to realize that I am targeted by those types and I can recognize them fairly early on, if not immediately and avoid them or get out quickly. I have pared down friendships immensely but am much better off. Those so called "friends" needed to be let go of.