Therapeutic
After resolution of bipolar 2, without symptoms to manage, I began a slow journey of tapering medications. This took three years. If you are able to do this with the support of your psychiatrist/doctor/clinician, then this is optimal.
The work of Mark Horowitz was enormously useful to me – this article (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33754644/), published in 2021 in peer reviewed journal was fantastic at explaining the general principles of hyperbolic tapering. Horowitz and Taylor published the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines last year (2024) which are clinical guidelines. The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines have long been used by clinicians, now de-prescribing guidelines are also available on Amazon.
My adoption of the ketogenic diet and my tapering of medications were under the oversight of a doctor, but without their support. By this I mean that I still had a treating psychiatrist but they did not support my decision to use a ketogenic diet, and they did not support my choice to taper medications.