What Is Patterns? An OCD App for Noticing the Loop
OCD can change its subject while repeating a familiar cycle. Patterns is built to help you notice the response, not endlessly analyze the thought.
Read postWhen an OCD App Becomes a Compulsion
A mental health app can have good intentions and still reward the exact loop it means to loosen. This is how that risk changed the way I build Patterns.
Read postIs Patterns a CBT app? ERP, CBT, and what actually helped me
A question I get a lot: is Patterns a CBT app? The short answer is yes-ish, and the honest answer is more interesting than that.
Read postWhat I actually wanted from an OCD app
Before I built Patterns, I kept downloading apps and deleting them. This is what I was actually looking for in an OCD app, and why it was so hard to find.
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