Medical Doctor. Ungovernable. Building a platform for Deprescribing: TaperCommunity
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Introducing Taper.Community
A peer-support forum and personal taper-tracking platform.
When SurvivingAntidepressants. org went read-only, thousands tapering psychiatric medications lost their home.
So I built a new one — plus new tools.
Track your taper.
Visualize waves and windows.
See how your mood changes as your dose changes: ⬇️⬇️
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Most antidepressant trials run by big pharma are 8 weeks long.
Most patients are on these drugs for years. Decades.
We have very little long-term RCT data.
This is a feature, not a bug.
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If you need help getting off psych meds, visit taper.community , youre not alone
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I've spoken to hundreds of people tapering off SSRIs, benzos, antipsychotics.
Not one of them was warned this could happen when they started.
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Criticizing the pharmaceutical industrial complex WITH evidence is almost impossible.
This is a feature, not a bug.
There is decades of published research supporting the notion that medication intervention is indicated and optimal.
Research in the opposite direction is purposely suppressed.
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If you want help getting OFF psychiatric medications,
Taper Community is a FREE place to do so.
Share and track your taper, find a deprescriber near you, and never do it alone.
Taper.community
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Were you told you might get insomnia from the SSRI your doctor was prescribing?
Clinical trials show SSRIs can cause treatment-emergent insomnia.
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If you want help getting OFF psychiatric medications,
Taper Community is a FREE place to do so.
Share and track your taper, find a deprescriber near you, and never do it alone.
Taper.community
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Jun 10
Every day someone tells me their taper plan their psychiatrist gave them.
Half of them cut the dose in 50% jumps over a month.
No wonder people end up in crisis.
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"My doctor doesn't believe me."
Taper Community is where people go when the system stopped listening. Free.
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Much like oxycontin, SSRIs were marketed as “non-addictive.”
The millions trying to come off them would disagree.
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For peer support and cool tools for getting OFF of psych meds,
Visit 👇
Taper.community
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Adding a 6th medication: no RCT needed.
Hyperbolic tapering: “wHeRe’s tHe EviDEnCe?”
Polypharmacy is the only intervention in medicine that gets a free pass.
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Doctors, especially psychiatrists, HATE when they feel like the one thats uninformed.
Jun 9
Why are prescribers so hesitant to let a patient guide a slower taper than they would have recommended? Shouldn't that be encouraged?
That's a genuine question for anyone to answer.
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Doctors are so uncomfortable with patients not fitting into their big pharma designed guidelines theyll just deny anything outside them exists.
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Visit taper.community to get help getting OFF psych meds.
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Doctors too often force everything to fit neatly into the guidelines and spam the same algorithms.
Patients now hold the power with their lived experience plus LLMs.
Jun 7
Let me make something very clear: The people going through psychiatric drug withdrawal are the experts. We are ones who are going through it. We know what helps, what doesn't help, and we learn from each other. For everyone else...drop your pride and listen. Thank you.
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This is exactly why taper.community exists
A peer support space where people tapering psychiatric meds share what actually helps, learn from each other, and aren’t alone in it.
Lived experience, taken seriously.
👉 taper.community
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception." - Nietzsche
The ego of fragil doctors cannot survive the sentence "I prescribed something I never understood and it harmed people."
Phase 1 is denial: they say "withdrawal is rare, you're anxious, it's relapse, it's you."
Then the issues pile up until denial stops being tenable.
Phase 2 is the rebrand: The same man who swore withdrawal was vanishingly rare is suddenly your withdrawal expert.
That's how Tyler Black goes from "extremely rare" to overnight authority.
Jun 7
Hard to swallow pill:
Doctors will assume you are lying rather than admit to themselves (or anyone else) that they don’t understand what’s going on with you.
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Here's the part the experts can't rebrand around:
You don't need their permission.
400 people who've actually lived this are already comparing notes, tapering schedules, and what their own doctors got wrong, in one place.
That's Taper.Community. Come find people who were where you are.
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