Problem with messing my brain up is that I still need to trust and rely on it to think. I am also an old lady, so there's a medical assumption I'm cognitively impaired anyway (snarl, spit).
The reduction program avoided the massive ongoing side effects I had experienced going cold turkey but I'm now about 9 months out and I'm still nowhere near right (but it's a long, cold Australian winter down here).
I started going through another book - Beverley Thomson's 'Antidepressed' which is an excellent overview of the drug industry - and also covers stopping and side effects. I found an epub file of it online.
regards Liz