生活设计教研中心

The OCD Lab

Desensitization design for OCD

Designed by Cheap Bro

Tutor: FREEZhao

强迫症作为一种严重的心理疾病，常常让患者陷入无法控制的强迫思维与行为之中，极大地影响了他们的日常生活质量。强迫症患者经常因为过度的焦虑和恐惧，而表现出反复出现的、刻板的强迫行为，这些行为不仅耗费了他们大量的时间和精力，也给他们的日常生活带来了极大的困扰。 在日常生活用品的设计中，我们往往注重产品的实用性和美观性，却较少考虑到用户的心理健康需求。对于强迫症患者而言，日常生活中的一些用品，如闹钟、衣架、烟灰缸等，都可能成为触发他们强迫行为的“导火索”。因此，设计一系列针对强迫症患者的脱敏生活日常用品，旨在通过改变这些用品的使用方式和交互设计，帮助患者减少对特定物品的过度依赖和焦虑反应，具有极其重要的意义。这些脱敏生活日常用品的设计，将借鉴心理学、医学和产品设计等多学科的知识。通过深入了解强迫症患者的心理特点和治疗需求，我们可以设计出更符合患者使用习惯和心理预期的产品。综上所述，针对强迫症患者设计一系列脱敏生活日常用品具有重要的研究价值和实际应用前景。这些产品不仅能够为患者提供便捷的自我治疗途径，降低治疗成本，还能够改善他们的生活质量，减轻心理负担。同时，这也为产品设计领域提供了新的思路和方法，推动了产品设计与心理健康研究的交叉融合。

OCD, as a serious psychological disorder, often leads patients into uncontrollable compulsive thinking and behavior, greatly affecting their quality of daily life. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder often exhibit repetitive and stereotyped compulsive behaviors due to excessive anxiety and fear. These behaviors not only consume a lot of their time and energy, but also bring great troubles to their daily lives. In the design of daily necessities, we often focus on the practicality and aesthetics of products, but less consider the psychological health needs of users. For patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, daily necessities such as alarms, hangers, ashtrays, etc. may become the “trigger” for their compulsive behavior. Therefore, designing a series of desensitized daily necessities for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, aimed at changing the usage and interaction design of these items, to help patients reduce excessive dependence on specific items and anxiety reactions, is of great significance. The design of these desensitized daily necessities will draw on knowledge from multiple disciplines such as psychology, medicine, and product design. By deeply understanding the psychological characteristics and treatment needs of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, we can design products that are more in line with their usage habits and psychological expectations. In summary, designing a series of desensitized daily necessities for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder has important research value and practical application prospects. These products not only provide patients with convenient self treatment pathways, reduce treatment costs, but also improve their quality of life and reduce psychological burden. At the same time, this also provides new ideas and methods for the field of product design, promoting the cross integration of product design and mental health research.