About us

Hey everyone, and thank you for being here. Everything on Nuanse was built with licensed health experts, and I really hope it helps you, or someone you love, understand OCD a little better. I've lived with OCD for most of my life. For a long time, I didn't know what it was. I had no tools, no treatment, and no idea what was happening in my head. My teens and early 20s were chaotic. And even when those years were behind me, the hard stuff didn't go away. It stuck with me, and slowly turned into obsessions. I struggled alone for years before I finally got a diagnosis. That diagnosis changed a lot. With medication and a psychologist who actually got it, I started learning how to break my spirals. I learned that a thought can feel real without being true. That I don't need to control everything to be okay. That my OCD goes straight for my deepest fears, and loves to turn the most unlikely scenarios into catastrophes. And I got better. A lot better. A huge part of that came from simply understanding what was going on. How my brain works, the chemistry behind it, the science of OCD. Understanding it was one of the first real steps in getting better. That's why I built this. That's why Nuanse exists. If this helps even one person get there faster, and feel a little less alone along the way, it'll be all worth it. I hope that together, we can help people stop fighting their OCD, and learn that it's something they can live with, and even thrive with.

Louis-Étienne Dionne Founder of Nuanse