GGOC - OCD Training App
GGOC: is the second of a series of apps we're launching on a new and exciting platform named GG Apps. GGOC focuses on OCD beliefs and fears including fear of contamination, causing harm, fear of sin and "not just right" experiences.
It features:
- 15 free levels to learn, understand and improve.
- 1 free daily training level.
- In total, 47 levels including topics such as doubt, threat, fear of self and importance of thoughts, perfectionism and uncertainty as well as symptoms specific statements addressing contamination, fear of harm, "not just right" and scrupulosity.
Main audiences:People with obsessive compulsive symptoms would benefit from using the app as a therapy assisting tool. It can provide users with more information about their condition, as well as better understanding of how other people who suffer from similar doubts think and feel. This app can be also used as a relapse prevention tool for OCD. Daily training can benefit by enhancing people's ability to identify and respond to self-talk.
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The application is based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- one of the most research-supported psychological therapies.
According to CBT models, negative self-talk – individuals’ ongoing interpretations of the self, others and the world
- maintain psychological difficulties such as obsessive preoccupation, low mood, and maladaptive behaviors.
In OCD, for instance, individuals negative self-talk often relates to fear of being contaminated, fear of hurting others or oneself, fear of sin etc., Individuals presenting with contamination fears, for instance, will say to themselves phrases such as "this is very dirty and dangerous" when seeing a door handle.
Such negative self-talk, of course, ultimately increases their contamination fears and intensifies negative mood
GGOC was developed in order to provide an accessible CBT training platform that would allow individuals with OCD related fears and doubts to better deal with negative self-talk. The application is designed to (1) increase individuals’ awareness of negative self-talk.(2) train individuals’ to better identify and challenge negative self-talk.(3) increase individuals’ access to neutral and positive self-talk.(4) increase the automaticity of the above processes.
To further strengthen learning of supportive self-talk, each level the player completes is followed by a small memory game in which one has to identify a supportive statements that appeared in the previous level.
Training using this application, will hopefully allow for gradual, steady learning of more positive self-talk thereby helping to break the vicious thought cycle maintaining OCD symptoms.
Category : Medical
Reviews (28)
This app went from a concise OCD app to an unfocused all-in-one app that deals with too many topics in an unfocused fashion. The old app used to have a "daily play" option once you progressed through the "levels" that let you drop into the app for a nice summary of all the previous statements merged into one level. This doesn't seem to exist anymore. The app is clunky now. The only thing good about it is that the UI looks modern but everything else is trash.
Really great app. I feel the changes its helped me make in my thinking every day. Comforting to do the toolbox levels on a daily basis. I truly love it. I previously had a problem with the app crashing but this has been fixed. Old review below. ----- Really great app but has been crashing after every level for me for a few weeks. Reinstalling didn't help. Fortunately it still saves your position so it isn't a deal breaker.
I've found this app surprisingly helpful with dealing with catastrophic thinking and obsessive ruminating. It really is very simple but very effective, and so quick to keep up with every day. One area for improvement is the number of typos in some areas, especially Anxiety II. It is distracting but hopefully something they can get fixed.
Great app! I do not focus on how fast i go through it, but work to internalize some of the advice as different way of viewing things... One of my fav sayongs is - feeling pass, change, and transform..... Would also be nice if the app included mental compulsions, such as analyzing and reassurance in the assessment... Also, could use an update on a few spelling errors.
Overall a pretty good app that helps you to identify positive and unhelpful ways of thinking. Such a nice range of topics to complete. Would have continued with the app after the 7 day trial if there was the option to make monthly payments, however could not see that option?! Hopefully this can be fixed?
It's not the most helpful app ever but does kill time and in the moment helps you say nice things to yourself. Worth a shot if you dont know what to say to yourself but doesnt really help to implement those behaviors. Feels more like studying flash cards for a test before learning the material if that makes any sense.
Great app! Simple and intuitive but effective. One recommendation: please enable users to proceed to the next level although time limit was exceeded. Personally I like to take time to reflect on each message instead of rushing through them. I believe many others would do the same. Do that and it'll be 5 stars!
At first, I thought the statement sorting was part of the assessment, but apparently that's the part that's supposed to be beneficial. There's very little explanation and the app tries to sell you on premium before even really showing what the free version does. I am willing to pay for an app if I think it will help me, but this doesn't seem to be the one.
I LOVE this. It helps shift your negative feelings and thoughts to a more positive mindset and attitude. I paid the full version because I totally think it's worth every cent, it really helps me be able to engage in exposure therapy better because I usually have a hard time in resisting my urges but this app really encourages you to resist your compulsions!!!! Definitely my favourite app on my phone. Thank you 😊.
Someone else already summed this app up well by saying it's trying to indicate all thoughts are either good or bad, and you should focus on having good ones. I think it just causes more anxiety, not less. But I also I found that CBT didn't work well for me so maybe this is in that vein. if it helps you, great. if not, delete. It should be less about whether a thought is deemed positive or negative snd more about what you do with the thought.
Not really sure this app is beneficial to me and my theme of ocd .i can see how it might be to some people but not for me really. It just seems to be swiping thoughts into a negative or positive category . Not really sure how this helps me when my ocd has gotten so bad. I won't be paying for the full version .
Keep in mind, I have been to therapy for OCD and I think it's important to do so with a therapist experienced with OCD and exposure therapy. But this app (and the other GG apps) has been very helpful for reminding myself to accept the doubt and not reject it. I mainly have pure OCD, but this even helps with that. Although I don't think it would work as well (for me, at least) if I hadn't begun therapy. This app is a good tool to do in addition to therapy. I look forward to using it daily.
It would have been great. I finished my 1st (& only) journey in one day in under 1 hour. I had high hopes & enjoyed what was available to me, but please be mindful that there could be kids between 12-17 (like me) using this to try and treat themselves who cannot afford membership because they do not have a bank account of their own. I wouldn't mind seeing ads between exercises, but I can't buy this if I don't have a bank account, which I don't & this was the only app I found helpful for my OCD.
Good tool with daily reminders to remain positive and be kind to myself. Easy to use. Not everything is applicable to me, as is expected. The daily exercises are a simple swipe up or down.
This has been surprisingly helpful. It isn't like the end all best treatment in the universe but it definitely has improved my confidence and made it easier to have positive thoughts. My OCD is eased.
Not worth the money. This app used to be free and it was an amazing tool I used daily. Now it's $12/month and all they did was add pretty photos. It feels like they're profiting off people's illness.
I love the app but it keeps crashing on me. I've installed it several times and now I can't even use it. It's super helpful but if I can't access it then it's pointless.
A really helpful app. At the first few levels, I wasn't quite sure how this was helpful. But it was very apparent very quickly how this helps me to change my thinking.
I paid for the old version of the app and now this new version is asking me to pay more. A little disappointed and the new ui is so packed w upsell stuff it's hard to find the worthwhile features anymore.
Namaste! Grateful to use such app. It has been helpful in addressing the inner issues and relating to day to day our outer life. It seems to be a long process but enjoying it.
i started with this app 3 days ago while also practicing hindu enkriya meditation. its one that helps people focus their mind and strengthen it. now im sure that enkriya has helped me quite a bit since i got rid of 15 regimes out of 88. i have extreme OCD but this app only believes in arrangement O there are different kinds of O, mine is cacophobic O but this app has deemed mine as -morderate bc i dont arrange although im literally incapable of walking across the room without twitching Obsession.
This app is encouraging and I haven't run into any bugs. You can do the first 15 levels for free, you have to pay for the rest, but it's definitely helpful.
Unexpectedly effective. The only issue I have is the health section needs some work when it comes to addressing/acknowleging chronic pain and disability.
As someone who suffers from anxiety on a daily basis, I can absolutely say that this app has helped me move more easily through my life.
hey so i lovr the body inage one and the relationship one i just startedbbut i cant use this one it doesnt start up:/ screen stays blakc and it freezes then shuts down edited: i deleted the app and reinstalled it works now !
Love this app so much! It's easy, doesn't take long and it's already helping me think more positively!
Requires entering payment info before you can even try it out. I've heard good things but no thanks.
I had high hopes for this app but I'm a bit let down. There are lots of grammatical errors across different units (OCD/Anxiety/Depression) that made it difficult to understand and to work out whether it was a positive or negative statement. It also felt a bit too repetitive. The monthly price is insanely high for that quality level when it's predominantly text based. I understand it's a translated app. However the overall idea is really good. It just needs more work and some decent proofreading.