NO - DO NOT TAKE A PILL EVERY OTHER DAY! That is an extremely bad idea.
The reason is that SSRIs change your brain and neurotransmitters. Your brain does not adapt quickly to changes in dose. In fact, it takes most people 3-6 WEEKS to adapt to a change in dose. I'm more sensitive than most and it takes me 8 weeks.
Any time you start, stop or change a dose, you're at risk of a withdrawal syndrome, with something called akathisia being the worst symptom.
Akathisia is something straight from hell. It feels like you drank 1000 pots of coffee and you can never rest, sleep or feel calm. This goes on day and night 24 hours a day 7 days a week for months or longer. Your nervous system is on fire.
You may or may not be able to reinstate the drug to stop the withdrawal syndrome. People kill themselves over akathisia.
I am speaking from hard experience here - I tried to get off Zoloft with a supposedly safe taper from my doctor, and ran into a horrendous withdrawal syndrome that screwed me up for the better part of a year. I call it my "lost year".
Please go to
survivingantidepressants.org and use their taper protocol. Especially since you've already had difficulties. The general idea is to taper 10% of the previous dose every 3-6 weeks. Note, this is different than 10% of the original dose.
Yes it will take awhile to taper off the drug. It could be a lot longer than 6 months. Better safe than sorry.
Switching to liquid is fine. I think most people end up doing that as the doses get too small to weigh accurately on a scale.