The human brain has the inherent capacity to recover from OCD symptoms by gradually reducing active rumination, with anxiety levels decreasing in parallel as rumination decreases; this recovery can occur naturally over time without medication or supplements, as demonstrated by a case study where a client reduced anxiety from level 9 to 0 over 30 days through consistent rumination reduction.
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Let's take a look at the recovery process using the Greyman method from the OCD Help app.
What you're looking at here is an example of somebody's tracking using OCD Help app. We have the total column of minutes ruminated, active minutes ruminated. Then the next column is W to 9, wake up to 9:00 a.m., 9:00 to 12:00, 12:00 to 3:00, 3:00 to 6:00, 6:00 to 9:00, and 9:00 to morning. We also are tracking the level of anxiety and the level of overall daily stress.
I just want you to zoom in on this tracking. This is from my client.
So, August 23rd, 550 total minutes ruminated. That's in one day the person ruminated 550 minutes.
Can you imagine the level of um hell, if I can't find another word, that the person experienced.
Level of anxiety is nine, not surprising.
And as the person every day tries to just reduce a little bit, just less rumination in the morning, less rumination in the afternoon. Not every day successful, but you can see little by little they just kept dropping this rumination through fears, through tears, through however their OCD went, and you know how it goes, cuz I've been there and you've been there.
Through all that, they were dropping the rumination. And you can see how exactly parallel the anxiety drops right along with it. They did nothing else different. They didn't do uh supplements, medication. Nothing changed except they dropped active rumination.
And their brain was capable to go from level nine anxiety to level zero anxiety in a steady pattern over the course of 30 days. Your brain is capable of the same thing.
Download the OCD Help app and start tracking.
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