• Learn Psychiatric drugs and diagnosis
• Prepare Readiness for drug tapering
• Taper Practical how-to information
• Heal Withdrawal survival
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• Psychiatric drugs and drug research
• Psychiatric diagnoses
• A primer on psychiatric drug dependence, tolerance and withdrawal
• Psychiatric drug taper rates: a review and discussion

• Introduction: the vital role of good preparation
• Step 1 – How do I feel about the idea of coming off psychiatric drugs?
• Step 2 – Learn about psychiatric drug dependence, tolerance and withdrawal
• Step 3 – What is my withdrawal beacon?
• Step 4 – Managing day-to-day responsibilities and tasks
• Step 5 – Building a support system
• Step 6 – Communicating with prescribers
• Step 7 – Listening to the body and its messages
• Step 8 – Being with pain and darkness
• Step 9 – Is the time right for me to taper?

• Step 10 – Get informed about your psychiatric drug
• Step 11 – Ensuring that a drug is relatively ‘taper-friendly’
• Step 12 – Interactions, reactions and sensitivities
• Step 13 – Taper rates
• Step 14 – Taper schedules
• Step 15 – Taper methods
• Step 16 – Preparatory decisions
• Step 17 – Gather the gear
• Step 18 – Essential skills
• Step 19 – Setting up a taper journal
• Step 20 – Implementing a taper

• Withdrawal symptoms A to Z
• Coping techniques A to Z
• Reclaim your health

• Help Hub – Support articles
• Family and Friends – Support your loved ones
• Practitioners – Prescribers, coaches, doctors, etc.

• An Overview of Psychiatry's Diagnostic Manual (the DSM)
• "ADHD" Stimulants
• "Anti-anxiety" Benzodiazepines
• "Antidepressants"
• "Antispychotics"
• "Mood Stabilizers" and Lithium
• "Sleep Aids" Z-Drugs
• How Outcomes are Measured in Psychiatric Research

• How "Mental Disorders" are Diagnosed
• How Psychiatric Drugs are Researched and Marketed

• Exercise
• Reflections: Listening to yourself

• Reading assignment
• Reflections: Grappling with the facts about psychiatric drugs

• Exercise: Exploring feelings and beliefs about psychiatric medications
• Reflections: To withdraw or not to withdraw

• Inventory exercise: Responsibilities, tasks, and possible solutions
• Reflections: Planting seeds

• Exploratory exercise: What does “support” mean to me?
• Optional exercise: Create an inventory of your needs and possible supports
• Reflections: Anchoring in a sense of safety and security for the taper road ahead

• Reflective prompts
• Tips and troubleshooting around a difficult relationship with a prescriber
• Reflections: To ask or not to ask your doctor?

• Exercise: How much do I let my body guide me?
• Readings: Physical health during withdrawal
• Reflections: Coming off psychiatric drugs is about journeying back to our own bodies

• Exercise: How do I manage deep and difficult challenges in my life?
• Optional exercise: Create an inventory of your strategies
• Reflections: Journeying back to being with ourselves

• Gather the key documents
• Reflections: Getting empowered through self-education
• ICI's guide to the FDA-approved drug label
• ICI's key to withdrawal-related information in the FDA-approved drug label

• Determine how ‘taper-friendly’ your drug is
• Reflections: to switch or not to switch

• Readings
• Reflections: navigating the unknown

• Readings: Getting a handle on slow psychiatric drug tapering and finding the right rate for you
• Reflections: Making your chosen rate as safe as possible

• The options: A daily microtaper or cut-and-hold schedule
• Discussion: Comparing the pros and cons of daily microtapering and cut-and-hold schedules
• Reflections: Make a decision – or hold off for now

• Making a liquid mixture
• Using a digital scale
• Counting beads in a beaded capsule
• Using a compounding pharmacy
• Using a manufacturer’s oral liquid
• Reflections: Which psychiatric drug taper method is best for you?

• Making a liquid mixture using immediate-release tablets or capsules
• Using a digital scale to weigh powder from a crushed immediate-release tablet or poured-out powder or beads from a capsule
• Counting beads from a beaded capsule
• Using a compounding pharmacy to obtain capsules and/or liquid
• Using a manufacturer’s oral liquid

• Adapter caps
• Bead-counting surface
• Counting implement
• Digital scale
• Empty capsules
• Graduated cylinders and pipettes
• Jars
• Labels and pen/marker
• Measuring bowl or tray
• Mortar and pestle
• Pharmaceutical-grade powder filler
• Pill bottles
• Pill organizer
• Refrigerator and/or cooler bag
• Slip tip syringes
• Transferring implements

• Counting and making cuts with beads
• Diluting powder when using a digital scale
• Understanding the limits of a digital scale's accuracy
• Using an adapter cap
• Using a digital scale for weighing and making cuts
• Using a mortar and pestle for pulverizing tablets
• Using syringes
• Doing calculations for a taper
• Special tips for calculations and liquids

• Section 1 – Tracking calculations and amounts
• Section 2 – Listening to your body and tracking symptoms and experiences

• Review
• Sample implementation: Making and cutting a liquid mixture
• Sample implementation: Using a digital scale to weigh and cut powder or beads
• Sample implementation: Counting and cutting beads
• Sample implementation: Using a compounding pharmacy
• Sample implementation: Making cuts from a manufacturer’s oral liquid

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