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 postThe Recovery That Happens Between Therapy Sessions
My psychologist gave me the concepts and the homework. The difficult part was the Tuesday afternoon two days later, alone with an urge to check. Patterns came out of those hours, not out of a product plan.
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.
Read postWhy I built Patterns
I have OCD. I built Patterns because I kept looking for the tool I needed and never finding it. This is the honest version of why.
Read postWhy Patterns keeps your OCD data private
The things people with OCD write down are exactly the things they least want anyone to see. So Patterns keeps all of it on your device. Here is why.
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