Everything this is built on, free.

Maybe’s lessons cite published clinical guidance, and that guidance costs nothing to read. Neither do the videos, or the services that can put a real clinician in front of you. Here is the whole list in one place. You never have to pay us to use any of it.

The guidance the lessons are built on.

Every claim inside a lesson carries its source in the sentence that makes it, rather than in a footer nobody scrolls to. These are those sources. You do not need us in order to read them.

Clinical guidelines

What the health system recommends

NICE writes the treatment guidance the NHS works from. CG31 is the one covering obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it is where practising instead of avoiding is set out as the first-line approach. The full guideline underneath it carries the mechanics: why practice is graded, and why pushing a thought down brings it back harder. That one is a long PDF, and worth it.

Foundation pages

Written for people, not clinicians

The International OCD Foundation publishes the clearest plain-language explanation of any of this. Its ERP page is where the curve comes from, the one where the feeling falls on its own if nothing answers it. Its about page is where the finding that almost everybody gets intrusive thoughts is set out.

Five videos, none of them over nine minutes.

All five come from OCD and Anxiety, run by Nathan Peterson, a licensed clinical social worker who treats this for a living. Three of them sit beside the lesson they go with inside the app; the other two had no lesson to pair with. Nothing is embedded on this page. Opening one is your choice, and nobody here can see that you made it.

Putting a name to the shape of it.

intrusivethoughts.org lists the forms this takes, each one written in the first person: I could harm someone I love. I am in the wrong relationship. The things I touch are infected. The site is clear that these are labels for patterns rather than diagnoses.

Reading your own thought in somebody else’s words is often the point where it stops feeling like a private defect.

The list of themes

Where the free stuff runs out.

Reading is not practice, and neither is a video. What the guidance actually recommends is doing the thing, in steps, with someone who knows how to pitch them. That is what the next section is for.

The app itself is built for the hours between those appointments, at 3am when nothing else is open. How it works explains what it does with them.

Finding someone to work with.

Every link here is an official government service. Private directories carry paid listings, and somebody deciding whether a page can be trusted should not also have to work out who paid to be on it.

Australia

  • Find a health service

    healthdirect Australia

    The national service finder. Search your postcode for health services near you, mental health included.

  • Medicare Mental Health

    Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care

    Free to use, no referral and no diagnosis needed. Centres you can find by location, and a phone line on 1800 595 212 on weekdays.

United Kingdom

  • NHS talking therapies

    National Health Service

    You can refer yourself without going through a GP first, and obsessive-compulsive disorder is on the list of what it treats.

United States

  • FindTreatment.gov

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

    The federal treatment locator. It covers mental health services as well as substance use, filtered by what they treat and what they take as payment.

  • Help for Mental Illnesses

    National Institute of Mental Health

    Where to look for a provider, and the questions worth asking while you work out whether one is right for you.

Anywhere else, start at your own country’s health service, for the same reason.

None of this is for an emergency.

If tonight is that, the safety page lists people who answer the phone, and the same list is one tap away inside the app.