An interactive app designed to help people with ocd through mindful exercises
About
Reshaped app is a mental health tool for people who suffer with OCD. The app shows the user uncomfortable stimuli while engaging them to use mindfulness, body awareness, and breathing techniques. These exercises allow for the person’s attention to be redirected to other parts of their body instead of focused on the discomfort in their mind.
This app is meant to serve as a small step in getting people more comfortable with not feeding into OCD rituals. Reshaped allows the user to get familiar in sitting with uncomfortable sensations, while removing the ability of external control. After completing exercises in the app the user is prompted to reflect and log how they feel through a daily journal entry which can be shared with a therapist.
Concept
Mental Exercises
Within the app there are hundreds of different interactive exercises that range from images and videos to augmented reality. All of these exercises are designed to create a feeling of tension and uneasiness in the user in order to put them in a similar headspace they would experience when a real life event triggers their OCD.
Each exercise has an interactive experience allowing the user to practice implementing meditation, reframing, body awareness, and breathing techniques to learn how to better handle real life exposure therapy. Ultimately this will allow the user to get more comfortable with feeling uncomfortable and lessen the severity of their compulsions and rituals.
Through the use of the iPhone’s microphone the user’s breathing or touch can affect some of the visual stimuli in the exercises. There are different categories of exercises for the different categories of OCD, each with varying exposure times. The more time logged means the more time spent learning how to successfully sit with an uncomfortable sensation, mirroring what they’ll need to do in real life situations.
Journaling
After working through multiple exercises for several minutes during the day the user will be encouraged to make a journal entry explaining how their mood felt, as well as analyze why specific exercises could have made them feel the way they did.
These journal entries can then be used to help their therapist better assist them moving forward with treatment.
