Get recognized for all you do for the community

*We heard you and thank you for sharing your feedback. We’ve updated this feature to better reflect your input and improve the experience for all our Members. Your feedback helps us grow, and we’re always listening. This post was updated on 06/06/2025.* Support others. Share insights. Amplify your impact. The NOCD Community has always been a powerful place where Members help each other navigate OCD—fighting isolation and stigma through shared understanding and support. Now, we’re introducing a new way to recognize you for all you do in our community. Introducing: The Community Recognition Program Getting better takes real effort. Whether you're sharing thoughtful insights in the community or hitting important therapy milestones, you’re showing up in ways that help others. We want to recognize the time, care, and bravery it takes to participate. The new Community Recognition Program acknowledges your efforts—both in therapy and in the community—by awarding you with credits that show and support your commitment. Recognition is our way of saying: keep making a difference—for yourself and for others. Our community is unique, just like the challenges we face. That means we’re intentional about how we reward engagement. Community recognition isn’t about rankings or popularity. It’s about acknowledging progress, cheering you on through the hard work you do in therapy, and showing gratitude for the support you provide our community. Because every step on your journey matters—and we’re in this together. Start your journey today As you connect with others and contribute to meaningful conversations, you’ll see badges and credits accrue as a way of acknowledging your meaningful contributions. Dive in and join a community conversation, offer advice, or form a new connection with someone else who will appreciate it. Thank you and we’re so grateful you’re here.

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Date posted: 17w

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OutstandingC...

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 17w

@Mreow These are excellent points!!!

NOCD

User type: Staff

Date posted: 17w

Thank you so much for providing this very thoughtful comment. This is our first version of this feature, so your feedback is truly important for helping us improve it going forward. We also thought it might be helpful to provide some context on the intent of the feature here—for you and anyone who is interested: We launched the Community Recognition Program with the goal of encouraging people to respond more in this welcoming and supportive community, because we often hear that NOCD members want more community participation. We also wanted to make it easier for people new to the community to recognize those who have been participating and engaging for longer—because sometimes that’s helpful when you’ve just joined an online space and are seeking advice from those with more experience. The goal was certainly not to reinforce compulsive behavior or drive engagement for the sake of engagement, but these are important concerns that we appreciate you flagging. We hope the feature will eventually foster deeper connections and authentic dialogues that help support our Members. That being said, we’re committed to revisiting this feature with the community’s feedback in mind—because that is what this feature, and all our work at NOCD is really about: putting our Members and community first. We’d love to invite you to speak with us directly, if you’d like, so we can further understand your thoughtful feedback. Please reach out to us at care@nocdhelp.com so we can connect you with our team!

Alma G

Date posted: 17w

I do not want to participate in an activity to “gain status”. My being human, whether or not I have the capacity to engage with others digitally, is quite enough status. Please don’t set up a ranking system- that’s quite gross, especially in this context.

Andrew Villa...

Date posted: 17w

This is a great idea, however there should be limitations and requirements when replying to someone. On one hand, this system encourages people to help others but on the other hand, it can also cause people to solely focus on a badge and give low quality replies just for the sake of points. Please make sure you guys adjust accordingly

NotThatHardcore

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 17w

This has personally encouraged me to offer support on the app, and now that I've reached leader status I'm continuing, but at a slower rate, because I found it's intrinsicly rewarding, actually. So, it's worked for me. It would probably be a different story had I not learned so many useful things from the support groups, though.

Infinite

Date posted: 17w

Yeah, I’m AuDHD in addition to having OCD and I struggle with constant loneliness. Please, PLEASE don’t encourage such unhealthy behaviors as spamming strangers on a social media app.

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