Post-Holiday Syndrome: how to make your return from Holiday less painful

Post-holiday syndrome is not a medical diagnoses to be treated as a disease, but its symptoms do appear post-holiday, above all in summer

What is post-holiday syndrome and how does it occur?

After a period of total relaxation and disconnecting (or trying to) from domestic and work tasks, returning to the routine of your day to day represents a challenge that, in some cases, requires the help of a therapist.

Don’t return from your holidays last minute.

It’s important to do it gently, step by step, reconnecting with your routine, because otherwise we’ll experience: fatigue, anxiety, lack of sleep and even sadness and depression.

The time has come, you have to face up to it, summer is over and it’s time to get back to reality. Let’s do it together in the best possible way.

Does there really exist?

As I quoted at the beginning of the article, despite not being diagnosed as a disease, the truth is that your mood after returning from vacation can mean can fall into a depression.

As such, it’s clear that yes, post-holiday syndrome exists. And you have to work to avoid falling into it.

Face up to your return from holidays with positivity.

Symptoms of post-holiday depression

This period can last from 2 to 3 days to two weeks. More than that would be considered an extreme case of stress.

It’s advisable to arrive home a while earlier to make the required adjustments in daily activities.

Tips for combatting it

Want to avoid post-holiday syndrome?

Here are some tips for you to put into practice around your next summer vacation, or the holidays you’re already enjoying in your favourite place of rest. Chin up!

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Diet

Experts recommend some practices to put into practice for stability and well-being in order to overcome this post-holiday syndrome.

It’s important to start up again with a quality diet that has the required amount of protein and other macronutrients, which provides quality nutrients instead of fats, which you’ll likely have been accumulating during the holidays.

Steamed vegetables.

Introduce vegetables, fruits, vegetables, and lots of water when you get home.

It’s recommended you consume white meats steamed, grilled or roasted accompanied with green salads and fruits.

And time schedules are also important. Recover the ones you had before the holidays.

Physical exercise

Surely you’ve had a somewhat more sedentary period of time.

Without physical exercise our anxiety can increase, added to the possibility of feeling sadness, discouragement and depression.

Return to sport, to your gym routine.

A lack of sport also decreases vitality levels – the longer without exercise the weaker you will feel as your muscle mass is being lost.

Recovery routine

At the end of the holidays, there is no choice but to return to the routine.

It offers your children normality in the return to school and routine.

This element shocks and overwhelms us because in a matter of days we have to take on all these tasks again, but we face the fact that our mind is slower and it can be difficult to concentrate and return to its usual rhythm.

You’ll soon return to your usual rhythm, and you can even dedicate yourself to some activity for a few days such as football practice, dance or whatever you like, but gently. It won’t affect the performance of your children at all, but it will will help you get active again little by little.

Rest and sleep

On vacation, we go to bed and get up later than usual. The whole sleep cycle is mismatched, as well as our biorhythm. All this comes to light with post-holiday syndrome.

Recovering the rhythm and schedules of sleep is important too.

What supplements can help with post-holiday syndrome?

It may be the case that, despite taking all the above measures, it’s not enough. Stress can overcome us, and we might not able to control it.

In this regard, I want to recommend a series of herbal extracts that you can find in the form of food supplements:

Access the HSN online store and consult the most appropriate products for stress, tiredness and lack of sleep here.

Bibliographic Sources

• Edmund Bourne y Lorna Garano. Haga frente a la ansiedad. Editorial Amat.
• Kristine M. Krapp y Jacqueline L. Longe. The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. Gale Group, 2001.
• Daniel Sánchez. Hábitos saludables, los 4 fantásticos que darán energía y vitalidad. Editorial Amat.
• Stephanie Matthews-Simonton, O. Carl Simonton y James L. Creighton. Recuperar la salud (una apuesta por la vida). Editorial Siro.

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