Welcome to TaperCommunity — Coming from SurvivingAntidepressants? Start here:
February 24, 2026··
On February 1st, 2026, SurvivingAntidepressants.org went read-only after 15 years.
If you're landing here from SA — welcome. You're not starting over.
Everything you learned there still applies here.
TaperCommunity was built to continue what SA started, with some upgrades:
1. Taper Tracker — log your dose and mood over time and see them overlaid on the same chart.
2. Depression & Anxiety over time — standardized assessments tracked alongside your dose.
3. Education Portal — 17 modules. Hyperbolic tapering, the wave-and-window pattern,
the reinstatement trap, Ashton for benzos, Maudsley/Horowitz for SSRIs.
4. Provider Directory — 52+ clinicians worldwide who actually pormote deprescribing.
To get started:
-Set up your taper in My Taper → it takes 2 minutes
-Post an introduction below — tell us your drug, how long you've been on it,
and where you are in your journey
This is a peer support community. We don't give medical advice.
We share experience, information, and company for the long road.
Glad you're here.
— TaperCommunity Team
It's great to have a resource like this as the global community of people needing a safe harbour in stormy psychiatric seas is vastly under represented and under served. My effort to locate any help at all in a large well-served city (Toronto) has been frustrating, pointless, and infuriating. I gave up and decided to do this myself, exactly as most of us will have to.
"Dangerously irresponsible" is how I characterized one psychiatrist's response to my enquiries. He is typical. It has never occurred to him that his training is fatally incomplete. He has no concept of de-prescribing. What's that? is his basic response.
Awareness is growing and more health care persons are sympathetic to the plight so many face trying to get these harmful drugs out of their body safely. We are the ones who can make it easier for those following us as we all try to recover from the mess that was caused. I don't blame any one for my reality. I had a part in it, too. I chose to believe them and consented to the drug (there was no 'informed' bit however) then continued to depend on it for 15 years while vaguely wondering whether it was harming me. Then I woke up.
Now it's on me to fix this because they don't know how to anyway, and in many cases wouldn't if they could. It's hard for a professional to abandon the whole identity they formed as an informed prescriber. To suddenly say I was wrong is not easy for most of us, but most of us aren't making decisions and recommendations that can and do harm the very people they profess to help. They're only humans after all, and it's understandable that they are reluctant to question or criticize their beliefs, however misgiven the may be. Of course, some have awoken. The gentleman who started this site is one, so there is hope, but we have a ways to go, too.
With taper.community many people who would otherwise be alone and scared will find a voice and a path to their own authentic selves. That deserves recognition and support from all of us.
Seroquel — 350 mg — 15 years — actively tapering | without clinician
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