on track

I get disheartened that I'm still struggling like this more than 2 and a half years into tapering, and I still have a way to go.

But then I think....I am going. I am continuing. I did make some cuts this year, and they are permanent - there's no going back. No one commends me on that. It's more like the opposite. Everyone is so much better at tapering than me. They're so much more courageous and strong than me. 

That's the people who understand what it's like to taper, and then there is everyone else - all the people, including many doctors, who don't understand and think it's no big deal. Of course they're not going to have any empathy.