Does anyone know who the OCD expert and coach she listens to on KZbin is?

Sorry to be the troll here… but the woman who’s spent the last 3 years telling us that she was constantly gaslighted by the medical community is now claiming ‘it’s all in your head’… I’m confused Melissa… did the drugs fuck you up or not?… your the one telling us you have an Neurological injury.. your last example of the woman who refused Prozac but then just took it and she’s fine undermines every video you’ve made…I’m confused…Benzo withdrawl is now not ‘down regulation of GABA receptors’… but me mentally feeding the beast… sorry to be nasty but I feel a little gaslit myself… that my symptoms aren’t real.

The first time I came off of both Zopiclone and Valium (Zopiclone first then the Valium) it took me about 6 months to recover from each of them. I had very manageable, mild and gradually fading withdrawal symptoms. Now I'm in my 3rd withdrawal from Ativan and Valium and I'm in indescribable, unbearable hell and I don't want to be here in this state. I don't know if I'm going to survive. Kindling is a real thing, I was so, so lucky the first time. I wish I had realised just how lucky. If only I could go back, punch myself in the face, destroy all the poison pills and never take any of it ever again. 😢 If I survive I don't think I'm going to be able to come back to the community because of the extreme trauma. Wishing you a happy, healthy and wonderful life ❤

GRACIAS MELISSA DESDE MEXICO! Your content has helped my wife so much with her own journey. We wish you a very happy life!

I am happy to have met you, Melissia. 💝Best to you, Joni in KS

Good luck , thank you ❤

You've more than done you're part, your story is out there now and you've probably said what you have to say on most aspects of withdrawal. On top of that there's not really anything that can be actively done for ppl in severe withdrawal, other than offering c9mf9rt and trying to keep the. Safe and hope they can make it through. G'luck mellissa and take care of yourself

It takes minimum 6 months after you’ve healed for the brain to dismantle neuroplastic circuits and delete the maladaptive circuits completely. In my opinion underlying mechanism is PTSD. Even if it’s just low level. The maladaptive stress response comes from post traumatic “stress” disorder.

What makes you an outstanding coach is your vast experience and your reassuring wisdom. It helped me dial down my fear just hearing you say that you have seen people recover from my symptoms in my specific situation. You are a gifted healer, Melissa. I wish you the best life. I do wonder if you are going to say goodbye to your regular clients, maybe a last session of hope for the future, or is this it. I developed some ptsd from 6 months of this experience, so I can't imagine the level of trauma one must allay after seven 7 years and listening to so much suffering every day. Take care of yourself and rest, Melissa. I am grateful for the help you have given me, and I hope you enjoy your best life ❤️ In the meantime, I will try to remember everything you said. I should have known with benzo brain, that I needed to take notes. 😊

7 years is plenty of time to have been in this community. Your videos & coaching were very helpful to me. Thank you for all of your hard work & contribution, but I completely understand. You need to enjoy your life 😊. Here's some thoughts on other protracted illnesses with similar symptoms to psyche med withdrawal. In Joey Ramenyi's Rock Steady group, she is a dizziness/tinnitus coach who uses neuroplasticity, she never addressed what medications people were on NEVER. She is an Audiologist, so she certainly is not uneducated about medications. Anyway, that was the first place I turned to early on before I knew Ativan was my problem because vertigo/dizziness/tinnitus was just one of my very first symptoms in tolerance withdrawal. In addition to being in some of her zoom session groups, I even paid $600 to have a one hour session with Joey. She never asked about what medications I took or medication history. When I figured out that I was in tolerance withdrawal to Ativan, I realized that was the culprit. I never had any dizziness/tinnitus issues before I took it. All I could think about was the number of people, in those groups who were taking psychotropic meds, coming on & off of them & and trying new ones, & i could only see that most of those folks, unless they had physical trauma, or virus/bacterial or a tumor or physical problem to their vestibular system, I could only imagine how many of them were actually having their vestibular issues from medications, and what a disservice it was to these people suffering from medications as a cause to their symptoms was never addressed. Again, in the dizziness community, I followed some author named Alecia who wrote "The dizzy Cook" & right in her book she says she takes Ativan. I went directly to her on her facebook page and told her that Ativan could be the cause of her vestibular issues. I gave her links to support groups & she was in denial about it. When long covid started happening to people, I couldn't help but wonder how many of these folks actually are having an issue with a benzo or ssri they started taking because of covid, & now it may be a medication issue, not long covid. I also briefly joined a menopause support group over a year ago that was headed up by a coach who i spoke with one on one, & again, she never discussed medications as a possible cause to folks having a difficult time with menopause. She would tell me she traveled the world & the women in places like Africa don't have the mental issues during menopause like we do here in the US. She also told me she has clients of hers tell her that they cannot come off of their antidepressant because they get suicidal- - I'm like "hello, the drug is the problem", & Africa doesn't have a "love affair" with psych meds like the US. These people don't even take a medication history. I had to educate her. I went to an Audiologist early on, & I spent the time writing my med history before the office visit only for it to be completely ignored. Meds were never considered as a possible cause. And, I know from being a nurse myself many moons ago, working in a physicians office, the doctors do not look at meds as possible cause for people's problems. You would think that it would be common sense or that your doctor is looking out for you, because they have you give your med history, but sadly, in most cases, they don't. In hindsite, it is impossible for me to unsee that probably 60-70% of the people with protracted conditions were due to the medications they were taking. And, they were on a slew of benzos, SSRIs , and drugs like neurontin. How could we ever know if it's a medication issue if medication histories are almost never considered? These people with chronic problems try so many different combinations of medications, and they are taken off and put back on & it's a big gummed up nightmare. I have a neighbor across the street who became a widow 2 years ago, & she is just spiraling. She thinks it's from depression from the loss of her husband, but she's talking manically, having serious cog fog, and walking around with a weird hurried gait & posture, & it's only worsening. After going through this myself, I cannot unsee when people I read about or know, don't realize it's their medication causing their problems. So when I see support groups for certain (not all) protracted illnesses, how many have a medication issue? Especially since a med history is never considered or even discussed? 1 out of 8 people take an SSRI, so we know dang well that a med could be the real culprit, not in every case, but probably in many cases. That's the problem we have in healthcare. People are not "woke up" yet to the dangers of psychotropic meds. Our only weapon is spreading awareness. As for my dizziness/vertigo, guess what helped it heal? Time away from medications and letting my neurotoxic brain heal. I had a lot of other symptoms too, but after 5 years, I'm finally getting back in life. And, Melissa as you mentioned, we are still vulnerable to stress for awhile. Good self care is important. ❤️

I Will miss you so much, your videos really truly helped a lot. I’m sad you’re leaving but I understand frankly I would do the same if I were you. Best

I think your sponsor idea is brilliant. You are WAY ahead of your time.

I will miss you so much Melissa!! 😢 Thank you for all your years of videos and support. Now it’s time to focus on your daughter and moving on! I know once I’m done, I’ll write my success story and wipe my hands clean- being a coach is a tough job! So bittersweet ❤

You're so right about all the similarities between psych drug withdrawal and other chronic illnesses. I think it so complex it can't be put down to one thing. However, in my research I am finding a huge connection between symptoms and extreme inflamation in the body. I am finding these injuries either cause or worsen this inflamation which has catastrophic effects on the nervous system. One day I believe we will have an answer. Thank you for your time and your story, I pray that you find peace moving forward. X

There’s a lot to absorb from this video… I’m sorry to see you leave this community but it’s understandable that you need to get on with your life and focus on your daughter and your own health. I agree that the mind is very powerful but I’ve been living in paws for over 6 years and my mind is exhausted from trying so hard to keep moving forward in hopes of healing. I’m still tapering zol and Val. I wish you all the very best in life and will miss your videos.

Melissa you will be missed by many thats for sure. I know many feel devastated by this. I never had the chance of talking to you for many reasons due to withdrawl. I wish I had.

Goodbye to Romance, yeah. Goodbye to friends. I tell ya. Goodbye to all the past. I guess that we'll meet, we'll meet in the end. ~ Ozzy (1981)

I am going to miss your wisdom and calm reassurance so much. However, I understand. I wish you the best life. ❤

Thank you for your help

Stay safe and Strong Melissa 💜

Thank you for all your help ❤️ wishing you and your family all the best!

Totally understand you! Wishing you the very best! Thank you for your sharing!

It’s such a loss for this community but you have to do what’s best for you and your family!! I love you and wish you all the best. I’m happy we’ve connected so I know where to find you (so to speak😁)! Yana

Perhaps, Melissa, you could continue creating positive, educational videos to counter the negative/fearful and unhelpful videos. Incidentally, I've been looking at your schedule for the last few weeks contemplating setting up a coaching time with you as I've fallen into a non-functional state again. It seems that I should've booked a time with you while you were available. Can you recommend another coach?

Yes Melissa, TMS is def a thing. You've always been the one who made sense to me.

Thank you. All the best to you

I fully understand. Thank you for everything that you've done. Wishing you the very best.

Melissa, I just really discovered with clearer mind that I'm HSP with ptsd. An empath that grew up on a farm with all that entails of a life death cycle introduced early and often. Many early experiences gave me cptsd. I'm 10 months off of 27 year psych meds and have had a good day finally last week. Thank you for posting videos, I have not watch all of them but will return time after time please do not remove your channel if possible. Best wishes to you on your continued journey. We understand it is time for you to move on. Many thanks!! ❤

Wish you the best ❤

Bless you, wish you the absolute best. 👍❤💎

Melissa, so happy for you, I can relate to everything you're saying,.someone who has had a history with medication, akathisa, long covid, everything your saying is true, I will miss your videos, and I hope life brings you everything you need.❤

Smart move ❤ Go on with your life, happy for you! Good luck in the future!❤

Understandable. There is a great need though. Not OCD in my case. Physical and neuro toxic injury. For some iatrogenic injury. SSRIs changes the brain and not certain the brain and nervous system can reset. It takes a long time. Although it is individual.

We miss you here🤗🤗

It is criminal what many of these entities are doing. Be it hospitals or businesses that require a person to be fully up on all their clot shots, just to receive services or go to work. My wife works at a Walmart Deli, and they made all their managers get the jab, and were almost ready to require it for employee's. We were prepared for her to quit her job. All injuries accrued from people being goaded and pressured into getting these toxic shots against their will should be prosecuted and held liable for any damages people will incur. Bob

Could you please link this story? I’d like to hear it/watch it. My neuro mentioned the same thing there’s a lot of labels to one condition (hyper active fear). There is an initial injury, or a severe psychological event.

Good on you for not looking up withdrawal videos. But, I urge you to watch this one. Very interesting take on withdrawal. It’s not so much the hypothesis, it’s got some good treatment options. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3Wkp6mZopmbgNksi=u-M9d5VYi12N5CTU

Im screwed cant get out of the stress

I’m not giving anyone the satisfaction of my demise.

It’s a search for the soul

Mine shuts down

How long had did it take you to recover from this setback ?

Hi, girl! The reason for this happening is not because the receptors in the CNS are downregulated (especially with single use or short term), but all symptoms come from dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system. If you ever looked in the disautonomia groups, people there experience exactly the same symptoms on a daily basis without ever taking any psych drugs. This confirms your observation in regards to previous drug use: dysregulated autonomic nervous system, which is due to genetic vulnerability. Those people are generally sensitive to meds, temperature extremes,lack of sleep, stimulants, etc. Disautonomia comes with different levels of instability, but it is obvious that many drugs can trigger it. This is why people recover slowly- takes a lot of time and some sensitivity remains. People without this genetic predisposition generally do well on drugs and taper without issues.

I have known mastcell activation syndrome for about a year now, when I figured out myself, that I have had this since 2012, where I had my first physically kollapse and afterwards psychological, when I first was put on an antidepressant and all got worse/triggered it. Afterwards I have nearly died multiple times, where the doctor has said it was only psychological, when my body went crazy. In 2017 I had my 2. Physically kollapse in the mix of an hormonal coil, low dose antidepressant and anesthesia in surgery, morphin etc. Very very traumatic as the doctors did not understand, what was going on and gaslightet me tremendously. Long story short. Everything got worse, when I went in acute early menopause, got vax and long covid and was about to die over and over again. Now I live after the guidelines og mastcell reaction syndrome (I almost don't talk to my doctor while am tapering an antidepressant), which have helped me the most even though it is not af life. I believe that multiple people can experience this in an unlucky mix of hormones and medicine, supplements, mold, viruses, vax etc. and servere trauma and stress from the surroundings. Typically a lot of trauma happens in the aftermath of it among the gaslighting and life itself as in withdrawals, which is the hardest in this hell. Thank you for mentioning this syndrome which is SO underestimated and can show in so many sercumstances 🙏❤️.

I'm 61 years old and I don't think that I'll ever be a functional person again.

This is where I am right now. I lost my housing voucher because the withdrawal has made the neuropathy so bad that I can't walk on my feet due to the pain. I don't have anyone to turn to. No family or friends. I've tried to get support but can't find anyone who knows what I'm going through. You're right about watching too many videos. Thank you for the information and validation.

Thank you for this! ❤

You have to Retrain your CNS point blank. It's going to take me a full Eleven years to Retrain mines 💜

I'm 3 month off mirtazapine and it's been tough. I'm due on in a few days and today all the nerves in my torso are buzzing, its painfull , im juddery and I feel like I can't breathe. I normally get hormone issues but it's like mirtazapine has made my hormones flat line ...I'm.49. Your channel is really helping me. Thankyou

Trust me! When I tell you that time is the cure for this Shit Storm! I've been going through it for 10 years. Time is teaching me all the life Skills I need to make a full Recovery 💜