When 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 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 postThe loop, and how I loosen it
Obsession, distress, compulsion, relief. Then it starts again. Here is how I learned to see the loop instead of living inside it.
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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