While this site is superb for a number of reasons I think for new members the FAQ should be more comprehensive in stressing the importance of weening off, I think the old faq I read actually was. If there’s one thing we’ve learned with certainty it’s that stopping abruptly will cause huge problems, contrary to what we read at the moment, I can barely see any example of someone who weened off and subsequently had major problems or at least didn’t manage to get their hormones back in check. Perhaps if you’re on it for the first time there would be no problem but especially regular users with gaps will be in trouble. The shock to the nervous and hormonal system is just too huge and hence the crash as everything floods back at once.
Additionally there needs to be some e-mail contact if you can’t log in as I couldn’t, advice at the coming off stage is VITAL. I say this as someone in the rare and unfortunate position of quitting as a result of what I read here and being unable to get in touch with the site until after I plunged to hell. It’s easy to look back and see what I shouldn’t have done in the interim period and would have avoided had I been on here.