Just got home from vacation, depressed. Anyone felt like this?
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Anonymous
| My regular life is fine, nice house, good kids, marriage- I just didn’t want to come home... mini vacation was without our kids in Florida. I don’t know why I feel this way. Whenever I come back from vacation I feel this way. |
Anonymous
| Cool. Get back to work. There's no point in stewing about it. Life goes on. |
Anonymous
| Because real life can be filled with drudgery? Doing the same-old same-old routine gets old after awhile. This isn't especially unusual. Nobody likes coming home from vacations. |
Anonymous
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I get depressed after almost every vacation. VACATION= fun time with my spouse doing things we like, going out to eat, etc HOME = housework, problems,things to be done, etc
Only time I wasn't depressed after a vacation was after the cruise from hell, where I thought we were (seriously) going to die at sea, then I was happy to get home! |
Anonymous
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You have to have the mindset that you must return to work so that you can fund the next vacation.
Sometimes I feel like you, but I immediately start planning the next adventure and feel excited again. |
Anonymous
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Op, I live in Florida. It’s a pretty depressing place to be IMO.
But yeah, usually vacation depression results from not wanting to go back after having a nice break away, or when vacation was terrible and you spent your PTO not relaxing |
Anonymous
| Start planning the next one! That's what I tend to do. |
Anonymous
Most people would love to live in FL especially near the ocean. Many go there to vacation! |
Anonymous
| Always. Every single time. |
Anonymous
I think most people would love to live near the ocean, yes. In FL? NOOooooooo. |
Anonymous
| It's like Christmas. There is so much planning and anticipation and stress of packing and travel. Then you have fun and when you're back, you're tired and bummed it's over. "Back to life, back to reality." |
Anonymous
| Op, was it less than 4 days? You need 7 days then you will be dying to be home! I used to feel that way until I did the one-week long beach thing! |
Anonymous
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Mini vacation without kids - heaven!
Coming home - stinks! But it's reality so suck it up and look forward to your next vacation. |
Anonymous
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Yeah, I never understood the assertion that vacations recharged you so you would come back to work more productive and creative. I spend most of my vacation dreading going back to work and wondering why I couldn't be a trust fund baby. Then I get back to work am and like, oh this *&^% again. Whoopie.
It's almost better to just not go on vacation at all and maintain a steady level of acceptance of daily life, than to have the highs of vacation and the lows of returning to work. |
Anonymous
| I used to feel that way, too. Then I moved from D.C. and now I don't feel that way anymore. Still like looking at DCUM now and again, though. |