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by SarakJohnstone

The exercise doesn’t work for things that happen randomly to you. For example, I don’t like my alarm being set for random hours when something originally had happened to me or making a wish for something and then a few hours later something negative happened. Then it says “expose yourself to it”. I’m not at a wishing well to throw another penny and making a wish again. AND I don’t need to set my alarm right now! So it’s not bothering me. This is for people who don’t like their hands getting physically messy or their books aren’t perfectly in order. FYI that’s not real OCD, that’s OCD portrayed by Hollywood. Real OCD is not being able to go to the bathroom without flushing the toilet 3 times or something bad will happen or walking up and down your staircase 10 times til it “feels right” or refusing to touch certain people because you think something bad will happen. The last OCD I had was when I was smelling Yankee candles, and if I smelled a bad one or it wasn’t a good smell and left the store, something bad would arise. What am I supposed to drive 45 mins away to the Yankee candle store just to do this app? That’s real OCD. Washing your hands 18 times is Hollywood OCD. Maybe get some people who have actual OCD to fix this app. OCD is almost superstitious.

by Anthonyanthonyanthonypalace777

Not client centered. Cookie cutter. They’re trying to improve access but therapists’ training lacks quality. The therapists are preoccupied with the requirements nocd puts on them and waste valuable and expensive session time focusing on doing their homework instead of treatment and being present with the patient. They also seem overworked and could barely remember my symptoms/what I had been working on/who I am as a patient. The app is also poorly designed. It doesn’t allow you look over the exposure you want to do until you start the exposure and it’s timer which defeats the purpose of a timer. Then it forces you to rate your exposure even though you just want to remember what you will be doing during it. Basically it is just poorly organized. The app is also a social media platform. That component is better organized than the actual therapy functions. You get what you pay for. It can help but for me it didn’t enough to the point of being satisfied or feeling like it was professional care. Especially with it being a virtual experience, it felt like the therapists were out of touch with my experience even if they were trying.

by Lebed2045

Nocd might work, but I haven’t tried it because to even get started, you have to create both a new password and a complicated one. Unlike most sensible apps that use OAuth for seamless login with Gmail or other accounts, this app forces you to create a unique, complex password. It can’t be short (low entropy = hackable) or reused from other services (risking all accounts if one gets hacked). And you still have to remember it.

Why require a password at all if the app is obviously for use on iPhones? Just let us log in with Apple or Gmail using one button. The app claims to target people with low attention spans, yet the first step demands significant effort and focus without showing any value upfront.

This approach is confusing and counterintuitive. I find it hard to trust the overwhelmingly positive reviews—it feels fishy. Maybe it’s popular with therapists in the U.S. or something, but as an app I found through an Instagram ad, it seems absurd. For an app aimed at people with attention issues, making them jump through hoops from the start is a poor choice. So deleted it at this step