I got back home this morning after two weeks vacation in Rhodes. It was an overnight flight and I barely got any sleep. Now I have post-vacation blues combined with very little sleep and it’s led to a horrible creeping anxiety that won’t go away. Fast heart beat, can’t concentrate, all that. Plus, I’ve been with my other half almost constantly for 14 days and suddenly he’s not here. I feel terrible and lonely.
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It’s just a come-down. It’ll pass.
Thanks mate. I know it is really. I think I’m just going to have to sit out today.
I travel alot on long haul flights; I work with docs who do same. There are three ways to do it:
a. special diet and do NOT drink alcohol or caffeine on the flight. I forget whether its protein when flying east and carbs when flying west. It doesn’t work for me but some folks swear by it. Drinking mineral water only does help.
b. I live with three teenagers and the gaggle of their friends who are constantly here. There is the hiphop/rap group and the newly formed Demented/Marilyn Manson group. I can live and enjoy the first but I hate the second. They are good kids, but their taste in music sucks. I usually go to bed with a very boring book - clonk and I’m out within 30 minutes.
c. As for leaving significant other behind: my husband and I lived apart for three years + because of the civil unrest in the country where he worked. He came home every six months for 30 days. He is now in South Africa recuperating from GB. This is when I rely upon the little white pill which I get from doc friends. No droggie feeling in the morning [sorry, I forget the name]. I take it once and sleep for 9 hours. Then I am a decent human being.
Also, I have three mini dachshunds who clamber into bed with me with Mr Kiffa isn’t here by my side…poor, but serves the purpose substitutes.