I am a clinical hypnotherapist. I also lost months of my life to limerence.

It started quietly, and then it was everything. The thoughts began before I opened my eyes in the morning, the same humming loop, replaying every conversation, every glance, hunting for proof of something that was mostly happening inside my own head. My work slipped. I would sit down to focus and lose hours. I told no one, because how does a grown professional explain that he has lost control of his own mind over someone? I felt like I was suffering, and I felt ashamed that I was suffering over this.

Here is the part most people in it do not have: I knew how the subconscious actually works. And somewhere in the exhaustion, I asked a different question. Not how do I get them to feel the same, not how do I just will this away. I asked: I do this for a living. Can I use the principles of clinical hypnotherapy to unhook my own mind?

So I became my own first client. I stopped fighting the thoughts and started working the loop the way I would work any subconscious pattern. Within three or four sessions, the grip loosened. The attachment quietly went down. Over about twelve weeks, my mind recalibrated. The person who had taken up all the space in my head became, simply, a person. I had my mind back.

I started sharing what worked with strangers online, quietly, one at a time. It kept working. That turned into a method, and the method became Limerence Lab and The Unhook Protocol.

I will not promise you a cure, and I will never tell you this is medical treatment. What I can tell you is that I have been exactly where you are, that I am a clinician, and that I built this out of the only thing I trust: what actually got me, and the people I work with, out.

— Danny M., RCH (ARCH-Canada)