The published rule and the enforcement pattern are different documents. Only one of them affects you.

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

Take one to a pharmacist. Free, two minutes, correct. Everything else here is a hypothesis. Currently on a small yellow tablet myself.

My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.

I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do.