After effects

I hear you. Often the best thing to do is NOTHING. You just allow the physical feelings to just be what they are going to be. In our effort to control our feelings (and try to make them better), we will just things worse. In our FEAR of the feelings being wrong or bad, we just make them worse. Instead, we must learn to ALLOW the bad feelings to run their course. It's the same with intrusive thoughts, actually. When the intrusive thoughts are nasty and loud, we need to allow them to run freely through our brains. (In fact, we need to allow them to run freely ALL the time, no matter what.) The feelings are the same thing. Just let the feelings be whatever they are going to be. And then you go and DO all the things you would normally do in your vacation (even though you feel yucky inside). Do everything you want to do anyway, even though you FEEL weird. OCD Recovery is about going and living life EVEN THOUGH we feel really weird or wrong inside. You can do it!!!!! PS, my mother-in-law calls this "swimming parallel." The image is at a beach. Some people are walking along the beach, nice and easy, to a certain point in the north. But you are actually swimming parallel to them while they walk. It's harder for you, because you are wet and cold, and the waves are bumpy. But you are going in the same direction. You are getting to the same place in the end. You are uncomfortable, but you are moving! :):):)