The Deprescribing Quick Guide
How to safely come off antidepressants, sleep medications, anti-anxiety pills, and other psychiatric drugs — without your symptoms crashing back. Built from the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines and the 2026 Carlat clinical updates.
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What's inside the guide
A few of the 17 pages, with the visuals you won't find anywhere else.
Why current tapers fail
The 1998 study that built today's guidelines, and why 60%+ of long-term users can't follow it.
Withdrawal vs. relapse
The visual timeline + reinstatement test that tells you which is which in 24–72 hours.
The hyperbolic curve
The chart that explains why 5 mg → 0 removes more medication effect than every prior step combined.
21-step sertraline taper
Full worked example from 100 mg to 0 with both liquid and capsule paths.
Benzodiazepine + antipsychotic protocols
The 5-step Cromwell protocol, the diazepam hyperbolic schedule, and what RADAR vs GARMED actually tell us.
The visit script
The exact words that change a long-term refill visit, plus the patient decision aid.
Built from the medical research, not internet sources
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines (Horowitz & Taylor, Wiley 2024) · RELEASE protocol (Univ. of Queensland) · Carlat Psychiatry / Geriatric / Hospital Reports (2021–2026) · RADAR + GARMED antipsychotic-tapering trials