Goodbye, everyone ❤️

[@ElaineKrieg-ip5qi]

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

[@brendamalone3880]

You are so incredible ! This is the most inspiring video I have ever watched. I wish you and your daughter nothing but happiness. Every word you spoke is the truth. Thank you so much and God bless you.

[@chimpart9678]

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

[@brittalinstrom537]

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

[@justdesi86]

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

[@IslaDelCaribe1234]

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

[@Roxytrish]

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

[@user-xp3kg9ys1u]

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

[@june1319]

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

[@anndee7995]

Thank you Melissa. God bless

[@mellynn277]

Thank you. All the best to you

[@carolinecroft7029]

Good luck , thank you ❤

[@DavidB.Fischer]

Thank you for your help

[@michelefrench4090]

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.❤

[@suecobb-werner]

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 ❤

[@stardustring]

I was coaching with Melissa too. Oh no , we will miss you. Sometimes you have to do what is best for you and heal .

[@Qwerty-nm6qi]

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

[@Manc268]

good luck, all the best, glad you found some freedom in the mind, enjoy your life.

[@linnm908]

I Will miss you so much❤️. I don’t know if I would have survived this summer without your videos. Thank you for everything!💖💖

[@FetaCheeseLena]

I don’t blame you. Take care girl.

[@katierenae4848]

Claire weekes hope and help for your nerves is a wonderful book too.

[@FourSeasonsGal]

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

[@FourSeasonsGal]

My thoughts exactly and why I live in the NOW and stay calm in the eye of the Hurricane.

[@beautifullybroken1591]

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

[@danielrogershealing]

Completely agree about inflammation

[@ElaineKrieg-ip5qi]

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

[@MsCarmel55]

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!! ❤

[@stephanielobner6431]

Hope the best for you 😊

[@Radhey2223]

Does anyone know about Patrick's update, I was watching his channel and videos about his benzo withdrawal and healing journey, but now I couldn't find them.

[@diefilmkitchenjohannessand2173]

Hi Melissa, i do strongly beleive in withdrawal and that time can heal most of the problems. For sure there are underlaying issues as well. In my Windows i feel so healthy! But i always do too much too soon!

[@Faithoverfear1981]

You are 100% thank you for your help. I had a video call with you about a year ago, I want to let you know I’m almost tapered off and I’m doing amazing. I stay off the forums. I do make videos to help others but they are not triggering. A lot of it does rest in the mind and I’m grateful to have discovered that early in my taper. I don’t think I would have done this well without the mindset I had. I mention this a lot in the videos I post.

[@melissadawncoaching]

I love this! So glad you're doing well!

[@RachH-healing]

We will miss you and all you’ve done, and continued to do for this community. I think at some point, for many healed, there has to be a time where you move on and leave this community behind because of many reasons. I used to think I’d want to coach and help more, but as healing happens I feel the more I engage in the WD world the harder it it to heal myself. So all that is to say I understand and wish the VERY best for you and your family. ❤

[@CorneliusSpivey]

Stay safe and Strong Melissa 💜

[@ElaineKrieg-ip5qi]

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. 😊

[@stardustring]

Yes she is so patient and calming.

[@jucasan19]

Yes … you are so right. Thank you

[@crookedrain771]

Thank you 🙏 I don’t blame you one bit. You have every right to leave this community. I’m actually really happy for you.

[@madelynHernandez5577]

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.

[@LeighannMcGratten-z5v]

Melissa - could you please share the woman whose OCD content you follow ? You will be missed in this community. Thank you for the video coaching sessions we’ve had in the past you’ve truly helped me get through some very hard times. I think everyone understands you needing to stop to focus on yourself and your daughter. I wish you all the best !!

[@regineheine5707]

I got it. I studied medicine and friends of mine told me you may get all the symptoms of illnesses you just learned. Was true. For some exams I did work with another girl of my age. One day I had itchy legs each day at the same time. I told her and she made me aware of one of the professors in dermatology had previously said this could occur as a psychosomatic condition. If I hadn’t lived through this I’d say it’s impossible. The symptom disappeared within one ! day. Meanwhile I know why. I am hypersensitive and hyper vigilant as well. So I Deal meanwhile with symptoms of reduction of zooloft and benzo. I am on my journey and won’t let anyone talk nonsense about how slow I do this, too slow for some, so I don’t talk about it anymore. I am reconnected with my body which tells me which “ normal” things come back . I am confident I make it. I have no Stress Coming off faster. I avoid certain habits , for example I don’t check my emails before going to sleep. I give myself the time necessary for a certain task. Am I slower than before? Yes, but me being fast meant a fight:/ flight condition 24/7. I decided if my body needed a drug it would have been built into my system. I don’t anything else in the end than being myself: I am good enough. Everything good for you and thank you for sharing.’

[@Eliokd]

I had this epiphany a few days ago while taking a vitamin d supplement. The supplement barely touched my tongue, and i had a reaction (the room spinned). I've had similar examples in the past that resemble this. I think our brain and subconscious mind can react even before any conscious thoughts occur simply because we had it ingrained in us for so long. I think this is only a part of what's going on but it is still pretty significant. Edit: i actually have a bachelor in psychology and we studied this specifically of whether fear can occur before any conscious thought of it and there were many theories but the answer is basically yes

[@melissadawncoaching]

I agree with these completely! It's only part of the picture though i agree with that too. I also have a psychology degree lol

[@brendafountain8074]

Wish you the best ❤

[@rosesRred2400]

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.

[@krbaughn]

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?

[@amitabh15]

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.

[@Benzosuzy]

What about nerve issues?? I had no ocd

[@Armored_Saint]

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)

[@stardustring]

Yup that was me, highly sensitive inpath

[@Snowflake1374]

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.

[@Mnichols374]

How are u Snow?

[@madelynHernandez5577]

Do you mean she is not healed?

[@Snowflake1374]

@@Mnichols374 Still very bad 1 year off. Took it 17 years and almost c/t, can make it more severe. Brain pain, pressure, electricity is the worst. Pain in body muscles, only walk short distances. Low, similar to depression but it varies a little. How are you?

[@Mnichols374]

@@Snowflake1374 same not to good still im about to a year also still same things for me head pain dpdr aka its crazy to me how it's still going.

[@nyx3967]

​@@Snowflake1374Head symptoms are absolutely the worst. There are no words for some of them because they're so alien to anything that exists in nature. Indescribable. It's like you exist in an alternative, horrific dimension with no escape 😢

[@jjdocumented]

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

[@safaasgari3115]

Ali greymond I think

[@jolenekindiak8849]

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

[@peggyannwilliams3247]

Thank you, Melissa, for all you've given us, for the hope & encouragement! Live your life knowing you have been a great blessing.

[@ElaineKrieg-ip5qi]

You have been a blessing in my life. Thank you for your help. I'll never forget what you have done for me.

[@harmedbuthealing]

I thinks it’s slightly unfair to the people who have been in this for years to imply that they’re not doing something they could be to heal. That in itself has kept me in an anxious loop for months at a time. People heal without doing any brain retraining or program all the time. There is no magic pill. While the things you mention definitely have merit and can lessen the severity of symptoms on certain days, other times they make no impact at all. In fact, I’ve spent months not on any group or forum, distracting myself, meditating etc and never saw much improvement. I also grew up sensitive and with chronic illness and anxiety and that was absolutely not even in the same ballpark as what this injury has done to me. While I’m sure trauma and anxiety and feedback loops play a role, as you said, this is complex and I do believe we are temporarily injured. It’s not necessarily just about down regulated receptors, but even one thing being down-regulated or compromised is enough to cause a knock on effect within our nervous systems. I think it’s great that you’ve done so much research and thought about this in depth, but anyone that tells me you need to do x, y and z to heal or that I can meditate and joe dispenza my way out of this is not being at all empathetic to severely protracted people. At one stage you encouraged people to go to a friends house or hang with a friend as distraction. Many of us are bed or housebound and cannot simply do that. Distraction is helpful I agree, but people need to stop putting the onus of this injury onto the people suffering. It’s so totally unfair and triggering

[@jaimemelendez8029]

Mellissa so you are no longer coaching?

[@amitabh15]

I’m sorry to see you go, I myself had a lot of anger thrown at me over SA. And then I got banned by the mods, because I was selling pseudoscience for saying that after 6 months, it’s not a drug injury.