How do you guys combat post travel depression?

>>1273424

5-htp,DHEA, vitamin D (from sunshine and/or supplements), fish oil and waiting it out.

It sucks, but these things soften the blow.

>>1273454
I live in Florida, so the vitamin D is a given, but I'll give the others a try.

>>1273424

> post travel depression

are you guys really so psychologically fragile

>>1273424
Take my Zoloft like a good goy

Fug bitches. :DDD

The same way I combat my pre-travel depression obviously, by taking my Mirtazapine daily.

Look forward to my next trip. Have a plan in mind of it happening.

Get a healthy routine going.

>>1273424
alcohol
and a lot of it

Set goals and keep myself busy.

Currently on a six-month trip around the world. I've traveled plenty before and have found myself dreading going home less each time.

One of the best benefits I've gotten out of traveling is a sense of adventure coupled with a need to stay active. When I was a teenager, most all of my hobbies involved sitting in front of a screen. I'd watch movies and television nonstop, no-life on MMORPGs, and spend a lot of my free time shitposting on 4chan.

Traveling helped change that. For instance, I learned how to ride a motorcycle in India two years ago; now I own my own bike in the United States and planning to buy another for a Pan-American road-trip.

I'm in Mexico now and am continuously embarrassed by how badly I dance. I've signed up for salsa and bachata lessons at a dance place back home, and am also enrolled at a boxing academy. I'll have university courses and am keeping myself busy with studying and extracurricular activities (if you're wondering how I can afford to do all this, I'm a late graduate in my mid-twenties, not a typical 19-year old undergrad).

Most importantly, I have a plan for my life that keeps me motivated, short-term and long-term. Next summer I'm going to take a semester off to take immersive Spanish courses in Mexico City for three or four months, and then I graduate in December.

Basically, I give myself activities and shit to look forward to at home and overseas. I've realized that traveling for the sake of traveling is great, but if you do a lot of it, it's important to find a way to make it productive and fulfilling rather than just hedonistic.

>>1273424
>>1273683
This is a great answer to the question.

I was hit really hard after my first trip overseas (an exchange as a teenager). I wouldn't have called in depression back then, and wouldn't now, but I was definitely really unhappy with the loss of adventure and living with friends.

Later in life, I tried to line things up to do/be involved in, or used moving abroad as opportunity to subsequently move to a new city in my own country.

>>1273462
this may be one of the more "normie" boards but it's still 4chan, and many of us don't have friends in our places of residence.