Traveling and dissociating/derealization

[CMango]

I just returned from a trip which took me out of the country. It was a work-cation. I helped my sister teach little kids art and dance twice a day for a week. In the evenings I sat on the beach and contemplated life. It was great! Upon returning I'm having that same weird adjustment period which always seems to come from traveling. I'm experiencing racing thoughts, feeling like everything is wrong or just not quiet right, even a touch of agoraphobia, which I managed to push through; I took a bike ride late this evening. Now I just feel like crying. Nothing is wrong. I realize this. Everything just feels wrong. Is this another form of dissociating or derealization? ?

 

[Teamwork]

Can't say which it is. For. Me if I was feeling that way it would be a memory unidentifiable except, i did travel a lot as a kid because I was institutionalized and they sent you home by train on weekends. My dad had a bad habit of not leaving the house in enough time for me to get to the train station on time without speeding and causing me great anxiety that I would miss the train. I didn't want to miss the train because I desperately wanted to get away from them and if I did he would have to drive me, a two hour trip where he would not engage in conversation.

 

[EveHarrington]

It doesn’t sound like dissociation yo me, rather it sounds like anxiety associated with returning to regular life.

 

[Friday]

For me it tends to be Stress Cup stuff... both in what goes UP! must come doooooooown, merged (+) with the stress of reestablishing normal routines / having them be more than a bit out of whack :wtf::banghead:

It’s partly why during my good years I always always always left a bit of a buffer zone at the end of vacations before I have to come back to normal life. IE Come home, BUT don’t go right back to work, or don’t pick the kids up, but take a couple days to sleep late, order takeout, hit the gym a bunch, and kind of shake myself out. <<< The thing people say about needing a vacation after/from their vacation.

 

[CMango]

For me it tends to be Stress Cup stuff... both in what goes UP! must come doooooooown, merged (+) with the stress of reestablishing normal routines / having them be more than a bit out of whack :wtf::banghead:

It’s partly why during my good years I always always always left a bit of a buffer zone at the end of vacations before I have to come back to normal life. IE Come home, BUT don’t go right back to work, or don’t pick the kids up, but take a couple days to sleep late, order takeout, hit the gym a bunch, and kind of shake myself out. <<< The thing people say about needing a vacation after/from their vacation.

That makes sense Friday, thank you for replying. I actually decided to stay in for a few days. Hope to head to a yoga class before the end of the week. :)

It doesn’t sound like dissociation yo me, rather it sounds like anxiety associated with returning to regular life.

EveHarrington thanks for reply:) I am feeling anxious. I also just read about distorted cognitive thinking and realize it may be playing a role as well...get it "role"..."alter"...lol

Can't say which it is. For. Me if I was feeling that way it would be a memory unidentifiable except, i did travel a lot as a kid because I was institutionalized and they sent you home by train on weekends. My dad had a bad habit of not leaving the house in enough time for me to get to the train station on time without speeding and causing me great anxiety that I would miss the train. I didn't want to miss the train because I desperately wanted to get away from them and if I did he would have to drive me, a two hour trip where he would not engage in conversation.

Thank you for replying! Glad you got through that time. I am going to research memory unidentifiable.?