Post-Vacation Blues: Doctors Recommend Ways to Prevent It

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There are many people who feel depressed, bored, and depressed after a long holiday. This condition is medically called Post-Vacation Blues, which is not a mental illness. If you adjust, you can recover.

Did you know? There are quite a few people who feel bored, depressed, and unhappy after a long holiday. Because the more we enjoy our holiday, the more likely we are to face Post Vacation Blues or post-holiday depression. It’s like being so happy that you lose your mindfulness and you will suffer a lot again if you don’t receive that happiness again.

Psychologically, post-vacation blues is not a psychiatric disorder. Most post-vacation blues only last for a short period of time, after which they go away on their own.

Because normal people will be able to adjust after starting to live their normal lives. เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย But if you think that you often have these symptoms,

How to Adapt to Prevent Post-Vacation Blues

Look for activities to distract yourself.

The first 2-3 days after returning will be a difficult time in adjusting your mind. If you have hobbies you like, such as gardening, watching movies, listening to music, cooking, drawing, playing with pets, exercising, or any activities that make you happy and never get bored, if there is nothing you like, organizing and cleaning the house may help you become more familiar and stay at home more often. The benefit is that the house will be cleaner too.

Counting down to your next holiday, on your next trip.

When we are happy with our trip, we may set goals for the next trip, such as where we will go, where we will stay, and how many days we will go, so that we will feel that there is fun and excitement waiting for us and will have more energy to live our lives, plus we will prepare to save money by working hard.

Let’s exercise.

When you exercise, your body releases endorphins, which makes you feel happy and forget your sorrows for a while. It also makes your body stronger. As the Romans said, “mens sana in corpore sano” or good physical health makes good mental health. A little bit of exercise can stimulate blood circulation and burn calories by increasing your heart rate.

Recover early

For those who still feel tired and exhausted, look for lean protein foods such as meat, chicken, fish, fresh fruits and vegetables that are high in beneficial antioxidants, and healthy fats from sources such as:

  • Olive oil and nuts in appropriate amounts
  • Supplements that can help you adapt faster include vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, lycopene, coenzyme Q10, and N-acetylcysteine ​​(NAC) to help stimulate energy production in body cells and muscles.

Sleep balance

It is an unavoidable fact that for many people, traveling during the holidays is more tiring. Because of the various activities planned and the irregular sleeping time for countries with a very different time from ours, it may cause you to not sleep well or not get enough sleep. Getting enough sleep in the first 2-3 days after traveling is very important for your health. Because while you sleep, your body will repair and balance neurotransmitters in the brain to return to normal mode. Therefore, we should sleep at the appropriate time, around 10:00 p.m. every night, and should sleep for 7-8 hours, which will help your body recover to its original state quickly.

If you are burned out, you need to fix it immediately.

Burnout Syndrome is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as ‘a condition resulting from chronic stress in the workplace and should be treated by a doctor before it becomes severe and threatens life. The cause is from dealing with stress in the workplace for a long period of time. It is a condition of mental changes resulting from chronic stress in the workplace. An easy way to observe is fatigue, exhaustion, negative thinking about one’s own abilities, lack of confidence in success, the boss or coworkers assessing that we are less efficient at work, not working as usual, and what is often found is that relationships with coworkers and people around us are getting worse.

The first thing to do is to take a break to manage stress. But if you can’t take a break, you should calm down and talk to someone you trust to plan a new work system. And if the relationship between your boss and coworkers is one of the causes, you should be flexible and avoid dealing with people who are pessimistic so that you don’t carry too much suffering. If that doesn’t work, consulting a psychiatrist is also a good solution.