🧠 The Most Important Thing In OCD Recovery

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The most important thing in OCD recovery is accountability. If I had to find a synonym to recovery it would be accountability.

[00:00:16]Accountability for how many compulsions you've done, for how much rumination you've done, for how many avoidances you've done.

[00:00:23]Not obsessive preciseness, but just accountability. That today I'm going to put all my effort into making less than yesterday.

[00:00:33]And tomorrow it's going to be less than today. Even if it's just one less.

[00:00:37]And if by some chance let's say tomorrow is a terrible day and tomorrow is actually more than the day after I will make sure it's going to be less. That needs to be how you're thinking.

[00:00:51]Where you're continuously accountable through ups and downs of life, even when things went bad, you get back to that accountability. That's what it takes to recover because if you keep being accountable, little by little you will bring it down to where you brought it down let's say from 100 compulsions to 50, from 50 to 20, from 20 to 10, and from 10 to zero, and now you're not doing any compulsions, which means you're not feeding the disorder. And the disorder cannot happen without rumination, compulsions, and avoidances.

[00:01:20]So you have this body of work that you need to do to bring these behaviors to zero and not add new behaviors. That's your entire recovery.

[00:01:34]And this is the body of work that needs to be done and you can do it. On your own time, on your own speed, every day chipping away at it. I'm Ali Greymond.

[00:01:43]I'm an expert in OCD recovery because I've been working with clients for the last 20 years and I can tell you anybody can fully recover. If you need help, the link is below.