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> As far as antidepressants go, [buproprion is] in class all by itself.

I'd like to emphasize that this is literally a true statement. It's what's called an atypical antidepressant [0] because it doesn't act in a way similar to other antidepressants.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atypical_antidepressant

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The word "literally" is misused, unnecessary and annoying.

Unnecessary? Only in the sense that my sentence works without the word. It's a rhetorical device.

Annoying? You must be easily annoyed.

But, misused? Not if you agree with definition 3 on dictionary.com: "actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy." [0]

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[0]: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/literally

I should have know better than to use THAT word on the internet. How silly of me.

Except in this case, where it is required to distinguish the sentence being true in a literal, as opposed to figurative, sense.

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