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A (0:00)
I'm Ali Graymond. I'm an expert in OCD recovery because for the last 19 years I've been helping people fully recover from OCD. If you would like to do personal coaching with me, all the information is on younhubocd.com you can sign up from there.
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Let's talk about realistic recovery time frame. So when it comes to realistic recovery time frame for you, it depends on a few things. It depends on are you able to put 100% into your recovery giving given your life circumstances? First of all, most people are not, right? Most people have family, they have jobs, they have school, they have a lot of stuff on their plate, right? So you can only stretch as far as you can stretch, right? So if you, let's say, are in the super bad shape, you're super stretched in life with, with everyday life stuff, then your realistic recovery time frame might be a little bit slower than somebody who's all in. But I would say for the way I do things with clients, recovery generally, I mean, 25% better than the week before. So we reduced by 100 in a month is not only possible, it's. I see this a lot, but with certain individuals, it's slower. It's slower. Why? Because they're not doing recovery work. Why they're not doing recovery work. Life circumstances, OCD is too high. It's, it's just harder for some people, whatever the situation is. So sometimes three months, sometimes a little bit longer. It, it just depends. But I would not, if I were you, I would not be, I would be realistic with the recovery time frame, but I would not be going easy on myself. That poor baby. I'm so busy. I can't do recovery. Like, kid, don't do that because then you're gonna just unnecessarily stretch out your own suffering. Instead, try to be like, okay, this week, let's say again, if you're doing certain number of compulsions, certain level of rumination, right, with the tracking, again, you need to do the tracking, even approximate, even somehow, but do the tracking because that's accountability and you have a baseline. So if your baseline is you're ruminating two hours out of three hours, then you know that you can at least maybe cut it down by, to and throughout the week till, to the end of the week by an hour. So now by the end of the week, you are going to be ruminating one hour out of every three hours. And then the following week, maybe your goal will be the half an hour out of every three hours, same thing with compulsions. You're doing 100 compulsions a day. Maybe by the end of the week you're going to be doing 90 compulsions a day or 80 depending again, how how far you can stretch yourself given your everyday life. If you are not busy, you don't have anything to do, or you're not super busy anyway, recovery should be your top priority. 100%. Really, really try to push yourself.
A (3:27)
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