Resources
The research behind these tools, and where to find support that isn't us.
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The research
If you want to check our method — or hand your prescriber a citation — start here.
- Horowitz & Taylor (2019), Lancet Psychiatry
“Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms” — the paper that established the pharmacological case for proportional (hyperbolic) tapering. The source of the method this site's schedules use.
- The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines
Horowitz & Taylor's clinical reference work, and the first mainstream prescribing guideline to give practical slow-taper schedules for antidepressants. Useful to name if your prescriber wants a citation.
- NICE guidance on stopping antidepressants (UK)
The 2022 depression guideline updated its withdrawal advice to recommend slow, stepwise tapering and to acknowledge that symptoms can be severe and long-lasting for some people — a notable shift from earlier guidance.
- US FDA prescribing information (DailyMed)
The authoritative source for half-lives, available strengths, and which formulations exist. Every dosing fact on this site traces back here.
Peer support
Tapering is a slow process and it helps to hear from people mid-way through it. These communities are peer-run: excellent for lived experience, not a substitute for your prescriber.
- Surviving Antidepressants
Long-running peer support forum with extensive member-written tapering documentation. Peer experience, not medical advice — and worth reading alongside your prescriber's input rather than instead of it.
- Inner Compass Initiative / The Withdrawal Project
Non-profit resource covering psychiatric drug withdrawal, including a peer connection directory.
- r/antidepressants and r/tapering
Active communities where people share taper experiences. Useful for the emotional reality of the process; unreliable for pharmacology.
If you are in crisis
Tapering can be destabilising, and a returning depressive episode is a real possibility during any reduction. If you are having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please stop and get help now rather than continuing a taper.
- US: call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), 24/7.
- UK: call 116 123 (Samaritans), 24/7.
- Anywhere: contact your local emergency number or go to your nearest emergency department.
Needing to pause or reverse a taper is not a failure. It is information.