Guides.
Plain-language explainers on the loop and the practice that helps. Free to read, whether or not you ever pay us anything.
How to stop reassurance seeking in OCD
What counts (it is more than asking people), why answering feeds the loop, and six steps you can start this week, including what to say to the person you keep asking.
Is ChatGPT bad for OCD? Reassurance and the loop
You ask, it answers, it holds until it does not, and a new wording of the question turns up. Why chatbot reassurance feeds the loop, and what helps instead.
Imaginal exposure, explained in plain words
For the fears you cannot practise: the ones that would be wrong to act out, the ones that live in the future, and the ones with no outward compulsion to stop. What a script is, and why it must not comfort you.
How to get the most out of Maybe
The order that works: the check, the three lessons, a first rung that is almost boring, and the ceilings you set while you are calm. Written around using it less rather than more.
ERP without a therapist: how to practise on your own
The plan rather than the explanation: what one rep is made of, how to build a ladder worth climbing, how to know when a rung is finished, and what to do with the urges you never planned for.
ERP explained, from scratch and in plain words
The practice clinical guidance recommends first, in plain words: what the two halves of the name mean, why not answering works, and what a practice ladder looks like.
Ego-dystonic: when a thought feels not yours
The word for thoughts that feel like they came from somewhere else. Why the ones you find most repellent are the ones that stay, and what helps.
Violent intrusive thoughts, and what helps
Why they land on the people you would least want to hurt, what the checking is doing to the loop, and what actually helps when the question will not let go.
Common intrusive thoughts: what makes one stick
Nearly everyone has them, and which one you got is not what makes it stick. Written for the person scrolling a list looking for theirs.
Pure O: why the name is the problem
The name says the compulsions are missing. They are not missing, they went indoors, and that difference decides whether the practice has anything to work on.
Real event OCD, and what helps
For the case the other pages do not cover: the thing you keep going over actually happened. What the reconstructing is doing, and the difference between making amends and confessing.
Rumination: going over it, and over it again
Going over it in your head is not thinking it through. What separates rumination from problem-solving, and what to do instead of the next round.