Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing doctors to help millions of Americans taper off antidepressants they've taken for decades, revealing medicine's dirty secret: physicians excel at prescribing but struggle with deprescribing. As patients increasingly quit SSRIs on their own through online forums, a contentious debate erupts over whether this federal initiative expands access to getting off drugs or discourages people from seeking mental health treatment altogether. Doctors receive minimal training in tapering psychiatric medications despite prescribing them for extended periods, with one Columbia psychiatrist regretting he didn't discontinue drugs sooner for patients who no longer needed them.