Post flood can be reached in less than a year, and even faster if people
are also doing the food detox, i.e. a couple of months.

I wanted to add to this that the process is a detoxification process,
and that means it's like withrawal from alcohol or any other drug, only
in this case the toxins are endogenous, i.e. toxins that formed and
accumulated in the brain. So we have a choice of a fast or slow
withdrawal. You might say the self help measures are a way of doing this
'cold turkey.' It's about going through the uncomfortable feelings of
fear, etc., and not suppressing the symptoms, ie. the detox crises. But
I think the self help measures are much less painful than a slow
withdrawal, because once you turn the fear into anger and get it out,
the pain is gone until the next crisis. The way to get relief from
painful symptoms like cravings for food, is to try to do some
redirecting at the first sign of craving, but of course don't beat
yourself up if you have the food. If you feel guilty, do some more
redirecting. The way to a speedy recovery is in awareness that craving
and all the other symptoms are triggers to do the work. And there is
also much less emotional pain than in therapies, like primal therapy,
where you re-experience the full pain of the early trauma.
Ellie