Fwiw it’s been a weird four and half years with disease, vast social change, a health service in free-fall, mad elections, would be presidential assassination, wars seemingly increasing and certain cultural forms in definite decline
With work/supervised tapering, you can remove just about any medication or compound, it’s getting it over the line and what’s waiting for you there where you might need actual structure. There are variable techniques which can reduce many forms of distress leading to the removal of said medication(s) altogether, all reachable via 5 main options:
1) GP/primary care counselling with a 4-6-8 month wait, someone who might not be quite at the races when you get there, ten 55 minute statutory sessions). They’re the shock troops of frontline mental health services but miss a lot
2) pvt accredited therapy - accredited personnel listed via online directories so you can see how options ‘work’ (eg online) and whether they’re appropriate/part of governing body
3) possibly navigate the labyrinth of 1), waste two years and finally get referred to secondary care, the kicker being you will have had to have wasted precious time just to tick boxes
4) approach a substance misuse team as some will work with structured ssri withdrawal if your prescriber consents, not as straightforward but doable in a city as large as yours
5) wait, maybe it doesn’t get worse, maybe it flattens out
