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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.

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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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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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