Weaning off antidepressants

I purchased an evidence based book a while ago called
‘Deprescribing Guidelines’ which is incredibly informative about tapering off antidepressants, benzodiazepines etc. It has an alphabetical listing of each antidepressant and recommended taper regimes for fast, med, slow and very slow taper. I am on Venlafaxine and I will be following the slow taper. This book is amazing and I can’t recommend it highly enough. I will be working with my doctor and a compounding pharmacy (I’m in Australia) to slowly reduce the dosage. Interestingly reducing the dose from 150mg to 75mg to 37.5mg capsules and amounts in between is referred to in the booklet as linear reduction and is not recommended.