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Personal Stories
These essays are lived experience, not clinical guidance. They explain why Patterns exists and what recovery tools have felt like from inside the loop.
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Is 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 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 stays private (and always will)
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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