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GG Apps Explained

A short presentation explaining GG Apps Platform for new and existing users. Join Tom on his journey for better self-esteem, confidence and general mental wellness.

GG Explained – The above presentation is a simplified visual explanation of GG Apps Platform. It is designed with an imaginary person, Tom, who self-manages his mental wellness using the platform.

GG Apps is a mental wellness self-management platform that allows users to train, learn and improve their thinking using quick, daily sessions on their personal device. The platform offers apps in a wide variety of topics, such as Self-Esteem, OCD, Relationship Obsession (ROCD), Body Acceptance and Body Image, Depression and more.

For more information about the research behind GG Apps, see our Research page.

Like the idea and want to try the apps for yourself? See our Downloads page.

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GG Sex Life: Improve your confidence in bed and start thinking about sex in a positive way

GG Sex Life (now fully released)

Wish to have a better sex life? Want more confidence in bed? Crave to get more joy out of your sexual interactions? Want to reduce fears relating to sexual functioning?

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IMPROVING YOUR CONFIDENCE IN SEX IS SIMPLE
Throw away negative thoughts. Approach positive ones. Learn to identify your inner self talk and respond quickly. Train daily and improve your wellness.

SCIENCE BACKED
New findings support the effectiveness of the core mechanism used in GG apps.
According to CBT models, negative self talk – individuals’ ongoing interpretations of the self, others and the world – maintain psychological difficulties such as anxiety, low self esteem, negative mood, and maladaptive behaviours.

HOW DO I BUILD MY SEXUAL CONFIDENCE
The foundations of healthy sexual confidence and self esteem are built upon beliefs. Our beliefs have the potential to bias and affect our ability to deal with intimate relationships as well as daily situations. For example, if I believe that “everything in myself needs to be prefect”, I won’t be able to live up to these expectations in bed and my confidence in intimate and sexual situations will decrease.

As women and men are different, our apps content is adapted to different genders. Our app is also personalized to each individual.

BELIEFS AND SELF TALK
Beliefs and self talk are interrelated. Once we learn to embrace healthier and more adaptive self-talk, it can change our beliefs and help us get rid of the ones that negatively affect our seuxal confidence and self esteem.

HOW GG SEX LIFE (GGSX) WORKS
The application is designed to:

  1. Increase your awareness of negative thoughts.
  2. Train you to identify and challenge negative thoughts.
  3. Increase your access to neutral and positive thoughts.
  4. Increase the automaticity of the above processes.
  5. Provide daily confidence and self esteem boost.

IS THIS APP SIMILAR TO PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY?
Our app platform is not designed to be used as a therapy or treatment, however:

  1. It is being used by CBT therapists as a complementing tool.
  2. It helps in maintaining self esteem during or after therapy.
  3. It is found to relieve symptoms of anxiety, worries, obsessions and more.

STATEMENTS (OR THOUGHTS)
The basic task in the app is simple – you will be presented with thoughts. If the thought promotes negative self talk – throw it away by dragging it on-screen. If the thought promotes positive or neutral thinking, accept it by dragging it towards you.
The more we train, the more automatic this process becomes.

HOW MUCH SHOULD I TRAIN EACH DAY?
To feel better and improve your confidence in bed, start today! We believe apps allow us to learn and train quickly and effectively. GG Apps are designed to be most effective in short training sessions. You are advised to complete up to 3 levels per day, which should only take between 2-4 minutes.

LEVELS AND TOPICS
The app’s many topics and themes are broken down into more than 50 levels. Each level has a pool of self talk statements (or thoughts). Users are required to complete a random set of ‘blocks’ to complete the level.

The topics include: Self-expectations and sex, rigid vs. creative sex, sexual desire, fear of being judged, comparisons and sex, self criticism in bed fear of abandonment and fear of trusting in sex, and more.

Training using this application, allows for gradual, steady learning of more adaptive self-talk thereby helping to break the vicious thought cycle maintaining low sexual self-esteem.

WHAT IF I COMPLETED ALL THE LEVELS?
The key to using the app is learning new topics, but even more importantly – training daily. There are levels designed as “daily training” for you to play once you completed your base course.

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GG Depression: Prevent and Beat Depressive Thoughts

Main audience:  People who want to prevent depression, beat depressive thoughts and general mood. By training daily, people with low mood that are now in therapy would like to use GGDE to practice between sessions, and people who already had treatment for depression and want to prevent relapse.

Download links

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How to benefit from GGDE

People who want to improve and maintain their levels of confidence by training daily will benefit from the app as it provide users with information about depression, as well as allows for better understanding of our internal talk and its impact on our well-being.

People with depression that are now in therapy will benefit from using the app as a therapy assisting tool. It can provide users with more information about low self-esteem and its consequences and how other people with similar difficulties think and feel. Daily training can benefit by enhancing people’s ability to identify and respond to negative self-talk.

People who already had treatment for low self-esteem or depression can use the app to review their learning in therapy and practice challenging their negative self-talk.

How the app works to improve confidence

Throw away maladaptive thoughts. Approach adaptive ones. Learn to identify self-talk and respond quickly. Train daily and improve.
GGDE  focuses on how to improve your mood and prevent depressive thoughts. The app features:
– 1 free “test yourself” level (assessment)
– 15 free levels to learn, understand and improve
– 1 free daily training level
– 1 free positive boost level
– In total, 43+ levels including topics such as reducing self-criticism and the need to compare, decreasing perfectionism, learning how to deal with emotions and more.

New findings support the effectiveness of the basic mechanism used in GG apps.
According to CBT models, negative self-talk maintain psychological difficulties such as low self-esteem. Such negative self-talk, ultimately leads to negative view of oneself. Furthermore, it intensifies negative mood and often provokes feelings of depression.

GGDE was developed in order to provide an accessible CBT training platform. The apps allow individuals with low self-esteem to better deal with negative self-talk:
(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, allows for gradual, steady learning of more adaptive self-talk. Break the vicious thought cycle and maintain higher self-esteem and better mood.

Need support for GGDE? get it here.

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GGSE: Improve Confidence & Self esteem

Main audience:  People who want to improve and maintain their levels of confidence by training daily, people with low self-esteem that are now in therapy would like to use GGSE to practice between sessions, and people who already had treatment for low self-esteem or depression and want to prevent relapse.

Download links

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How to benefit from GGSE

People who want to improve and maintain their levels of confidence by training daily will benefit from the app as it provide users with information self-esteem, as well as allows for better understanding of our internal talk and its impact on our well-being.

People with low self-esteem that are now in therapy will benefit from using the app as a therapy assisting tool. It can provide users with more information about low self-esteem and its consequences and how other people with similar difficulties think and feel. Daily training can benefit by enhancing people’s ability to identify and respond to negative self-talk.

People who already had treatment for low self-esteem or depression can use the app to review their learning in therapy and practice challenging their negative self-talk.

How the app works to improve confidence

Throw away negative thoughts. Approach positive ones. Learn to identify self-talk and respond quickly. Train daily and improve.
GGSE: Confidence & Self esteem focuses on how to improve your self-esteem. The app features:
– 1 free “test yourself” level (assessment)
– 15 free levels to learn, understand and improve
– 1 free daily training level
– 1 free positive boost level
– In total, 45+ levels including topics such as reducing self-criticism and the need to compare, decreasing perfectionism, learning how to deal with emotions and more.

New findings support the effectiveness of the basic mechanism used in GG apps.
According to CBT models, negative self-talk maintain psychological difficulties such as low self-esteem. Such negative self-talk, ultimately leads to negative view of oneself. Furthermore, it intensifies negative mood and often provokes feelings of depression.

GGSE was developed in order to provide an accessible CBT training platform. The apps allow individuals with low self-esteem to better deal with negative self-talk:
(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, allows for gradual, steady learning of more adaptive self-talk. Break the vicious thought cycle and maintain higher self-esteem.

Need support for GGSE? get it here.

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GGRO: Relationship Doubt & Obsession (ROCD)

GGRO is the first app to target people who suffer from relationship obsession (ROCD). It was designed by Prof. Guy Doron of IDC, a researcher and evangelist in the field of OCD and ROCD.

Download links

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Can I benefit from the app if I have ROCD?

People who suffer from relationship obsession (ROCD) and would like to improve their condition by training daily, will benefit from using the app as a therapy assisting tool. Furthermore, 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. Daily training can benefit by enhancing people’s ability to identify and respond to self-talk.

And if I don’t have ROCD?

The app also helps People who are in relationships, want to be in a relationship, and would like to improve their understanding of relationship related fears, doubts and obsession. Use the app to better understand the various types of relationship related self-talk we all experience daily. So, by discovery and training, we can all get better at how we analyse and respond to conflicts, situations and thoughts.

How the app helps with ROCD

GGRO: Relationship doubt and obsession was the first in a series of apps we’re launching on an exciting platform called GG Apps. Since it’s introduction, we’ve added a few more, but the app retains the honour to be our platform’s cornerstone.

GG Apps target one of the cores behind relationship obsession: beliefs. The app presents users with statements representing self-talk. The users need to identify the negative, maladaptive thoughts and throw them away. When faced with an adaptive, or flexible statement, users are required to pull it towards themselves suing touch interface.

Challenging beliefs is one of the hardest things to do, even for therapists. With GG Apps, we’re utilising the power of mobile technology to help people self-learn and train. Even if you forget to use the app for a few days, the app reminds you by sending a notification, so you never lose touch.

To deal with the vast amount of content covered in the app, we divided into topics (or themes). As a result, each topic is made of 3 levels: introducing a new concept, training and reviewing the topic. We recommend users to play up to 3 levels every day, and progress gradually.

Training using the app is designed to challenge, change and make maladaptive beliefs more flexible. While training for only about three minutes a day, users learn to identify their internal talk and respond accordingly.

What if I forget to train?

Research shows that the app can improve users’ beliefs and reduce symptoms within 14 days. However, it’s even better to keep training and maintaining the acquired knowledge and ability to respond.

The app will send a daily notification, reminding you to do a quick session.

Science backed

Importantly, GGRO is backed by research. To find out more, and read about the latest papers, follow this link.

App features

– 15 free levels to learn, understand and improve, so you can learn the basics without any commitments.
– 1 free daily training level, so even when you’re done with the free levels you can still use the app as long as you like.
– In addition, 30 advanced levels (45 in total) including topics such as doubt, uncertainty, regret and other relationship related statements.

Need support for GGSE? get it here.

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GGOC: OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

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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.

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The application is based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioural 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 behaviours.

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.

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GGBI: Body Image Distress & Preoccupation

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Main audiences:
People who suffer from body related distress including body dissatisfaction, preoccupation with a perceived flaw in appearance (Body Dysmorphic Disorder; BDD) and would like to improve their condition by training daily, and people who already had treatment for BDD or related body distress and want to prevent relapse.

Group 1 will benefit from using the app as a therapy assisting tool. It can provide users with more information about body distress and preoccupation, as well as better understanding of how other people with similar difficulties think and feel.
Group 2 can use the app to review their learning in therapy and practice challenging their appearance related negative self-talk.
New findings support the effectiveness of the basic mechanism used in GG apps.
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 body distress and preoccupation, for instance, individuals negative self-talk often relates to the over-importance of appearance to their self-worth, their being accepted or their success in life more generally. Individuals with such beliefs will continuously say to themselves (in their heads) phrases such as ‘I’m ugly’, ‘I have to look perfect’ or ‘I will never be accepted because of my looks‘.
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 appearance related preoccupation.

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Our newest app, GG Sex Life, is launching on Product Hunt tonight, and we invite you to come and help promote it by up-voting.

GG Sex Life is our latest effort, focusing on improving people’s sex life by enhancing sex related mental aspects, and helping deal with fears, performance anxiety, and more.

Showing off some amazing user feedback on GG Confidence

We learned the hard way that it’s important to check for user reviews of our apps – so now that we do read the feedback regularly, we often find some really encouraging gems – but few are like the following one coming from Jess, about GG Confidence & Self esteem:

This app is a GAME CHANGER in self confidence! After a few weeks of daily use, I realized my subconscious beliefs were changing and I began to truly believe the statements. It helped me begin to rebuild my confidence in an easy way that works whether you “believe ” the statements or not. Lacking motivation and belief make raising confidence very difficult- GGSE supports seemingly effortless change that LASTS! Thank you so much for your apps!! Much love! ❤

Jess

So, that’s what Jess wrote to us, and it makes us proud and more motivated to keep developing and improving the platform. While user reviews sounds like a trivial thing, for us waking up in the morning and reading that someone out there understand exactly what we’re trying to do with our platform and how it’s built to help and support positive self-talk is a great boost.

If you like our apps, please write a review so everyone can learn about them! And if you have suggestions, our apps are being updated constantly – make sure you write to us so we learn more about it all.

To understand for yourself more about how GG Apps work, please check out our little presentation – How GG Works.

Can I to treat OCD with an app?

A few months ago a media item about our app got picked up by other media outlets, and soon enough Guy and myself (Gur) appeared on TV, radio and a couple of printed newspapers. Guy talked about improving self esteem and how it is possible to treat OCD, while I tried to explain the interesting stories behind building a technology to help people with psychological disorders and improving psychological wellness.

One of the questions that was constantly asked: Can you really use an app for psychological treatment?

While personally I’m not the psychology expert (Prof. Guy Doron is), I had to find an answer to this question. The thing is, when you are being interviewed on a 2-minute before commercials afternoon radio talk show spot, you can’t hesitate. and answer like “It’s complicated, however…” and you hear the end of the show jingle playing in the background, seconds before the line drops.

Being an expert for what he does, and having researched OCD and ROCD as well as many other psychological disorders, Guy will do whatever he can to help people learn more about the GG Platform and discover it, however there is a need to be precise and not sell any illusions.

So, the answer is yes, then. It has to be. Otherwise, the interviewer just taps the ‘next’ button and puts on a new Rhianna tune. And so goes a golden opportunity to promote our platform, so more people can hear about what we’re doing.

How can it be a “YES” then?

Psychological conditions such as OCD are a long struggle. It’s also quite challenging to treat OCD. When treating OCD patients, therapists often try to challenge and change their patients’ beliefs. This is on major key to improvement. However, it is a very hard and tedious work. Did you ever try convincing someone to change their mind?

An example to challenging beliefs would be to help a OCD sufferer to view the world as a less threatening and dangerous place. The belief that our surroundings are a threat stands behind a lot of OCD behaviours. And for someone that believes the world is dangerous, it is quite hard to change this way of thinking.

Lets take ROCD: people who deal with this condition can think that relationship related mistakes are fatal, and ultimately lead to catastrophe. Unfortunately, if I hold this belief, I can find many ‘proofs’ for it in life. Breakups, divorce and even movies who advise us to make the “right” decision. So someone who holds this belief will always find plenty of reasons to keep it.

The process of making this belief more flexible and adaptive can be very long, tedious and expensive. It can take weeks, and even when there is progress, there is a chance that events in the meantime will cause recession.

Adaptive and maladaptive thinking

What we are doing with GG Apps is try to go directly to people’s way of thinking and affect it. So while we don’t “treat OCD” , we’re tackling one of the core pillars of OCD. Confronting users with sometimes thoughts that are hard to take. Rarely, users actually object to some statements and write to us that we need to change the content. This is mainly because, while our system is rigid, it tries to be as effective as possible in defining the line between adaptive and maladaptive thinking.

Therefore, we actually aim to make it as rigid as possible. In a world of complexity and hard to define lines between good and bad, we learn which ways of thinking pulls us down, and which ways of thinking helps us improve.

When users write to us, they call it “the OCD app” or “this ROCD app“. We call it “the apps that help people change their beliefs for improved psychological wellness while training for only three minutes a day”.

But that’s too long. We know.

 

How to accept my body (and promote a positive body image)

Being humans, we often have something we don’t like about our bodies, or feel uncomfortable with. It could be our facial features, our weight, our posture, hair color, or even the look on our face when we see ourselves in the mirror first thing in the morning. Keeping a positive body image is a great buzz word, however actually doing it is a real challenge.

According to research, 91% of American women are unhappy with their bodies. In the UK, 90% of the teenagers don’t like their body shape. Get the idea? we seem to have a challenge there.

One of the things often overlooked by people who aren’t happy with their body, is the also one of the main reasons for these negative feelings: our beliefs.

What is really broken with our understanding of positive body?

If so many people suffer from negative body image and confidence, does it mean that we are all bad, bad looking? Or could there be an alternative explanation?

Perhaps society around us is biased in some cruel way, rigged in such way that we see us as the problem, blaming our body and learning to neglect it in the process. We are being convinced that more diets, cosmetics, surgery and suffering will help us improve our body acceptance – However, we may be looking in the wrong direction.

CBT and Beliefs

In CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), researchers and therapists looks for mechanisms that work behind the scenes, study their function, and in case they malfunction -create methods to change them for the better – ultimately enhancing our psychological wellbeing.

What is by now clear, is that pretty much all psychological pathologies are affected by beliefs.

In simple words, our negative body image can be transformed into positive body image if we change our beliefs about our body.

Changing beliefs

That may sound easy, but in reality, changing people’s beliefs is quite hard. Ever tried convincing someone to change their political or ideological beliefs, for example? This can be nearly impossible.

The way we approach it is by dividing our self talk (or internal thoughts) into two major groups:

  1. Adaptive beliefs – these are neutral, positive, flexible thoughts that keep us healthy.
  2. Maladaptive beliefs – these ate rigid, less flexible, hence affect our confidence and our ability to adapt, transform, and improve.

Beliefs and positive body image

So, when we identify adaptive and maladaptive self talk, we train our minds to embrace a more positive body image. This process takes, but it is not too late to begin. We quickly become more aware of our thoughts and how they are affected by beliefs.

Examples, anyone?

I look at myself in the mirror. What’s with this pimple on my nose?

“It’s ugly. I’m going to look stupid all day. I need to find some cream to cover it, or this will be a disaster.”

Think again.

“Ok, so it’s interesting. People’s skins are different, and my skin is a living thing. Alright, then.”

Get the idea?

If you like our approach, try our app, GGBI, and see for yourself.

Paula writes about GGOC

This app is helping me so much. I’ve been using it daily for 2 weeks now and just purchased the whole app today. Can’t wait to go further. The best part about this app is the notifications throughout the day. Just positive statements. Like “today is a wonderful day” It helps you change the way you look at things and that’s what CBT is for. Also changing my ocd thinking from negative repetitive thoughts to positive ones. Love the app. Would highly recommend!!!