OCD and ERP: Plain Guides
Plain explanations of how OCD works and what exposure and response prevention actually involves. Everything here is free to read — the app is for turning it into daily practice.
ERP you actually do, not just read about
Reading explains the mechanism. OpenStep is where you build the hierarchy, take one small step a day, and see what you have already done.
Download free for iPhoneTypes of OCD
Contamination OCD
Contamination OCD is not about cleanliness. What the obsession-compulsion loop looks like, why washing makes it worse, and how ERP breaks the cycle.
Intrusive thoughts
Unwanted violent, sexual or blasphemous thoughts are common and do not predict behaviour. Why fighting them makes them louder, and what works instead.
Relationship OCD
Relentless doubt about a partner or the relationship, and rituals to settle it. How ROCD differs from ordinary doubt, and why answering the question makes it worse.
ERP in practice
Living with OCD
Reassurance-seeking in OCD
Asking "are you sure?" feels like communication but works like a compulsion. How to spot it, how to stop, and what to ask family to do instead.
Is there an OCD test?
No online OCD test can diagnose you. What screening questionnaires actually measure, the five questions clinicians use, and what to do with the answer.
Another 30 topics are in preparation. We do not publish a page until the text has been reviewed — an empty page with a heading is not information.
Turn this into daily practice.
Everything on this page stays free to read. The app is for the part a page cannot do — the repetition.
