long vs. short taper vs. cold turkey

I have been on this poison 4 years. I have wrote a couple posts on here on here, how this med has wrecked me and it is seemingly only getting worse at a more and more rapid pace. I truly don't believe I will last even 2 more years on this med. I am inches away from being totally bed bound, unable to do pretty much anything, not even being able to eat.

I tried a super slow liquid taper 2 times before, only cutting about 3% at a time, but it still gave me withdraval in a degree that would be totally unacceptable to manage for 3+ years, which is how long it would take to fully taper at that pace.

I feel I have only these options left:

1. Don't taper/Stay on the med, which will surely means death for me in the very near future. I feel my body and mind dying. I feel truly living dead already.
2. Try a faster taper while getting support from another antidepressant or nerve medicine (can that relief some of the withdraval?)
3. Go cold turkey while getting even more heavy support from another antidepressant, and benzo's or simply booze on hand for when things get real critical.

Is there anything other I can do that has succes in lowering the intensity of withdraval? Supplements, diet choices, alternative treatments? Did something work to minimize withdraval for you?

My only shot at getting a life is getting off this. There is no life on this drug for me anymore.

At this point I have a hard time that any other drug could cause as much issue as mirtazapine has, and I don't see it being realistic at all to get of it without some other med that can lower some of the withdraval even a bit.

Thoughts?

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