Exposure

A therapeutic practice — and an underlying app principle — of approaching the discomfort of releasing items in small, repeated, manageable doses, rather than waiting for the discomfort to disappear first.

Exposure-based work is the most evidence-supported approach in cognitive-behavioural treatment of hoarding disorder. The key insight is that you don't wait until you're ready to release something — you release something, and the readiness builds across repetitions.

Daily challenges, the decision queue, and the soft-challenge flow are all designed around small, low-stakes exposures. One item today, then another tomorrow, beats a single weekend of trying to do everything.