NOCD Reviews

Not only is the creator of NOCD a witless, uneducated, back-alley hillbilly who has lost far too many brain cells to whiskey and crack, but he/she definitely does not have OCD.

Allow me to explain:
Their solution to your intrusive thoughts is to just sit with the intrusive thought. There’s no further instruction after that. The person on the recording basically brings you to a meditative state, tells you to accept the intrusive thought, and then abandons you in a perpetual loop that is so detrimental it could bring someone to suicide very easily (which is a highly regarded concern with intrusive thoughts specifically). NOCD definitely does not have five stars; everyone I have talk to who has used it feels the same as me. They are faking their reviews, and NOCD has such a little science behind it is disrespectful. This bafoonery (yes I made that a word) needs to be taken down from NOCD Store immediately. Wherever is Steve Jobs when you need him the most? Smh

Folks BEWARE of this company. I had one session with Dr. Ruthie Brooks. No Help at all. These folks will tell you that you are in network with your insurance company to get treatment. Then they DO NOT bill your insurance as in network. They will wait until a year later to bill you the FULL Amount of your session. I disputed the charges and if I did not keep the email where they said they were in network, I would be on hook for the full amount of the session. Once I sent them the email, I kept for over a year, where they told me they were in Network, I would have had to pay the FULL amount! When I spoke to the therapist (Dr. Ruthie Brooks) all she was concerned with was how many sessions she could get out of me. I have had the same therapist for 20 years, who would NEVER do that. They got $500 from my insurance company b4 I cancelled every sessions with Ruthie Brooks. She is not even nice. BEWARE of this SCAM!

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 NOCD? That’s real OCD. Washing your hands 18 times is Hollywood OCD. Maybe get some people who have actual OCD to fix NOCD. OCD is almost superstitious.

Not client centered. Cookie cutter. They’re trying to improve access but therapists’ training lacks quality. The therapists are preoccupied with the requirements this app 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. NOCD 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. NOCD 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.

this app 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, NOCD 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 NOCD is obviously for use on iPhones? Just let us log in with Apple or Gmail using one button. NOCD 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

So all was well, NOCD changed my life and helped me to manage my ocd better. When I started it they said they could do a payment plan of $50 a week. So I agreed to it. I was like wow, that’s a great deal that’s so much cheaper than the ERP my friend went to, and it’s on my phone! So I go through my sessions and get a $700 charge on my phone when I’m trying to save up for a car...I was like what the heck, I had a panic attack and broke down, I called them and they said it was an error. Then the next day I called in to check if they were refunding me and they said it wasn’t an error, that it was $1300 in total and I only paid $400, so the bill was correct. Never doing NOCD again. I got scammed, was very misleading and how was I supposed to know it was $1300, I would not have done it if I knew. This is why it gets one star. They had a hidden fee that screwed me over. On top of that, they said that insurance wouldn’t cover it but I would get a discount, lies!

I was working with a this app therapist for about 6 weeks and had already seen a 28% decrease in my symptoms, so the therapy is very helpful and effective but that is not what I’m reviewing. This past week I had to cancel my appointment due to being in the hospital. I ended up being placed on a hold and was transferred to an inpatient facility. I checked NOCD today and it said I am no longer enrolled in active therapy. There was no conversation, no message sent to me, no discussion…I just was unceremoniously kicked out of the program which honestly really hurt my feelings. I’m not in the most stable of places and I agree that ERP at this time is probably not the best idea. I just would have appreciated the courtesy of a discussion or a heads up that this would be happening. It felt like I was being punished for having a psychiatric emergency. If I do decide to undergo ERP in the future, it will definitely not be through this app. To say I’m disappointed is an understatement.

When I first started therapy with this app, the groups were led by a licensed therapist named Jenna. She was very professional and seemed dedicated to her work. At that time most of the groups were also facilitated by licensed therapists. But we have recently noticed a shift in how the therapy groups are organized. Most of the groups are led by the same advocates, sometimes in 1 day there are back-to-back groups by the same host, repeatedly. The company gives the impression of offering a variety of OCD-themed groups, but in reality, 70% of the groups are managed similarly, lacking actual variety. Unlike some groups run by licensed therapists that have a specific viewpoint and educational component, many groups turn into open-ended forums until the final minute of the hour, where the same, often narcissistic attendees repeatedly dominate discussions. Groups are frequently canceled last minute when moderators fail to show up regularly, and we’re lucky if we’re notified in advance. While emergencies can occur, this level of inconsistency is offensive. These groups are crucial for our recovery journal while in therapy that we pay this app very much for, and they should not be seen as just an additional benefit.

I really wish pronouns were more normalized even just for the therapists. Maybe more profile and background photo variety as well. The concept of the community tab seems like it has the possibility of helping people but honestly feels more harmful as sharing triggers and obsessions and symptoms with others suffering from OCD could latch onto those and adapt them themselves. i wish there was a way to turn off or hide the community tab and/or have the option of people posting adding specific trigger warnings and blurring the rest of the post until confirming you want to read it. otherwise its been useful in some ways especially as someone who cant afford a specialist nor find one in my area.

NOCD is very simple to use and it was easy to get a therapist. All the people working for them seem very nice and willing to help. My therapist was nice and never made me feel judged. I started to realize I didn’t like something about the way things are done when my therapist was confusing me by asking me if my thinking was in an OCD way or trauma way. She is the expert, I am not. The way she would ask me questions confused me a lot! I also disliked how she had to ask me each session if I was suicidal. I felt that was overwhelming to have to answer every session. I had shown no signs of suicidal thoughts or ideation at the time I sought treatment for possible OCD. Using NOCD has made me question the diagnosis I got from their therapist. I am seeking a second opinion elsewhere and would caution anyone who hasn’t received a diagnosis beforehand to be careful when coming to NOCD for an answer.

I wasn’t sure about using this company because I am skeptical of mental health apps/ large mental health companies. But I knew I needed help and it was the only ERP provider that was in network. My experience has been extremely positive, it was very easy to set up an appointment and I started treatment within 3 days of my initial call. My therapist Debra has been really helpful, understanding, and supportive. She pushes me to do exposures but is always checking that it’s something I can handle. I don’t know if I ever would have made the leap to start treatment if this did not make it so accessible. Very appreciative

All around great for people with OCD. And an awesome company that really really cares. I really love how they’re integrating real ERP therapy into NOCD with real therapists. This will change the lives of people living in remote areas with little to no access to professional, specialized OCD treatment. I also love SOS - but it’s a little buggy: the compulsion prevention message statement gets cut off if you go above a certain number of words, and the timer goes buck wild if you look at another app, or if you phone goes to sleep, etc. Not huge deals, but when you’re freaking out the last thing you want is to deal with a winky app. If they could nail the SOS feature I’d give it 4 stars.

I am generally skeptical of mental health apps— but NOCD changed my life. Not just the physical app, but the educational side of it. I truly had no idea there was recovery from OCD for someone like me, and there are so many people out there that are in the same place—feeling alone, crazy, stuck— that need to know about this. Not only is NOCD the best experience with healthcare I have EVER received, but they are aiming to educate others, especially “normal” talk therapists about OCD and how to diagnose it. NOCD alone has restored my faith in what the healthcare system could be and I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is dealing with seemingly unending anxiety/OCD.

I just wanted to say a HUGE Thankyou to this app, specifically Ted and Anil! NOCD is such a helpful resource so that people don’t feel alone in their struggles. I know it’s been so nice to have on my phone for times when I was especially down or struggling and needed to know that other people got what you were going through. Ted and Anil have been so so helpful and kind! They’ve bent over backwards to accommodate me and to extend discounts where I needed them. Ted did my assessment and was extremely thorough, empathetic and took as much time as I needed. He created a judgment free zone for me to tell everything that I was going through without having to feel afraid and gave me the diagnosis that I needed. Anil also was willing to give me a call and let me know any information I might need. Overall, I’m extremely grateful and impressed by this organization and by the people who work for it. It’s very professional and still personable which is ESSENTIAL for mental health patients! Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! I wouldn’t be where I am today with out the help of this app.

I’m writing this review because I believe in this system. I’ve avoided owning my OCD for the last 40 years and in the last 3 years clung to diagnose like ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Anxiety and Depression in hopes of finding a way out of my problems. None of the treatments I engaged with prior to this app helped, in fact many times my symptoms became worse.

this app works. It’s not easy. It’s not inexpensive if you are paying out of pocket. But, it is effective ate treating OCD. My therapist has been phenomenal! I feel supported and seen in ways I haven’t even seen myself. This is an amazing system abs if you or someone you know may be struggling with OCD stop delaying, connect in NOCD today!

I just downloaded this because I saw an ad on Instagram and it's literally the coolest thing I've ever seen. It's founded by someone who also has OCD and it's less of the "let me fix you" and more of the "let's work through this together" vibe, which I really love. I never knew how many types of OCD and therapy options there are until I started with this app. NOCD also has a social media aspect so you can build a community with other people who have similar symptoms as you. I've never been able to joke about OCD symptoms with others and having this community is so cool. There are also virtual therapy and self-guided exercises you can check out. Definitely would recommend!

I started experiencing OCD symptoms when I was 18 out of nowhere. I struggled with OCD for about 3 years before I started therapy. I did cognitive behavioral therapy and Exposure Response prevention therapy through the this app app. I don’t remember how long the program was because I did my therapy in 2020 and it is now 2023 and I’m just now getting around to writing a review. I would say that my symptoms have Improved by about 98%. OCD used to affect almost every part of my life and now most days I don’t even think about it. I will occasionally still get intrusive thoughts, but I use what I learned in therapy to just brush them off and not let them cause me anxiety. If you are suffering with OCD I highly recommend getting therapy through NOCD.

I am about 7 or 8 weeks into the 12 week program. The results are incredible, if I’m honestly assessing where I was when I started versus now.

I still have intrusive thoughts and OCD, but it is FAR, FAR more manageable. Instead of engaging in endless compulsions and hours long debate, which would derail my whole day, I am now able to recognize my thoughts, embrace the anxiety, and usually within a few minutes I’m back to normal. I am happier, less stressed, and feel more in control of my life.

I would say I’m about at a 60-70% reduction in severity, frequency, and anxiety right now. think with another 2 months of practicing and being intentional about doing the work, I could be at a 90% reduction in symptoms.

Don’t get me wrong it’s really hard work and the first few weeks are scary. But Kim and the team at this app helped empower me with the tools and confidence I needed to battle against the parasite of OCD. I have my life back again. It’s worth every penny of the pro counseling. OCD plays a smaller role in my life with each passing week. It’s not an overnight thing, will take several months of hard work, but you can legit be a different person on the other side. Can’t thank you enough this app team and Kim my amazing therapist

this app has begun to change my life. I am better understanding dynamics in my own mind and in my relationships. Healing has begun taking place in these areas as I learn to combat obsessions and temptations to participate in compulsions. My therapist is kind…but honest. NOCD , itself, has a ton of features such as calming down support, chat rooms, free seminars, and self-editing calendars. In past therapy places, I had difficulty communicating with my therapists when we were not in sessions. this app’s app makes it incredibly easy through the messaging app and also through *super simple* calendar edits to my therapy session schedule. I could not ask for a better app to support my mental health needs. And bonus! I used to be so scared about missing therapy sessions…but push notifications come through NOCD , texting, and email, if you want them to.

To know that this community & this application and all of these wonderful resources are available. I suffer from pure O OCD & I’m going to book a therapist that specializes in OCD for the first time, hopefully in ACT therapy. I just can’t stand living like this much longer. I’ve seen therapists on & off for years but it’s just been too difficult (for me, anyways) to get through to them without being fearful of fully disclosing my waking & walking nightmare. Finally found this this app community volunteering for a clinical trial.
Just downloaded NOCD - there is catharsis just in the knowledge that I’m not alone. Excited to be here!