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I began the taper on my own and only discussed it with my doctor when it came time to drop from a 100mg to 50mg prescription. He wanted me to meet with him monthly to report my status but I thought that was ridiculous. I just meet with him when I need a refill.

This is a general practitioner, not a psychiatrist. I've met with many a psychiatrist before and find they are generally so invested in the biomedical disease model that I don't expect them to be particularly helpful. They're the group of people who got me into the emergency room from over-aggressive onboarding of an off-label drug (geodon for depression? It was insane) and also who advised me to get electro-convulsive therapy when I had "treatment resistent" depression (i.e. the psych meds weren't helping me to feel happy.) Fortunately I declined that frightful procedure.