In all my life I have the subtle suspicion of being a mentally deranged person. Perhaps it is the reason of having studied Psychology: to understand me a little more. Needless to say, it was no use, the other way around, I'm crazier every day ... what we're going to do, I'm no longer surprised.
That's how crazy I feel!
What did surprise me was to see how throughout the preparation of a trip, its development and its end, there were characteristic and recurrent symptoms in the patients. Not even Freud knew how to find it, but they exist. Is he "Mochiloco syndrome".
I have analyzed the different super scientifically phases of this disorder, and I have classified them in 3 periods: preparations, travel development and return. Read carefully, because you can be next.
PHASE I: THE PREPARATIONS
Symptom:
- Euphoria
- Paranoia
- Anxiety
The first phase is characterized by EPISODESEUPHORICS
"Oh my God! I can't believe I'm going on a trip to Asia! This is the best thing that could happen to me! I am the king of the worldooooooooo better than Di Caprio in the Titaniiiiiiiiic! ”
Alternated withPARANOID PERIODS AND ANXIETY ATTACKS
“Jo but look at Di Caprio as it ended, it was almost better if he stayed at home. And me? Let's see if a strangling python is going to come out while I'm lying on the floor because the bed in the hostel is going to have bed bugs, my mother, everyone is in my counterattack. What if the plane falls? ”
PHASE II: TRAVEL DEVELOPMENT
Symptom:
- Anxiety
- Phobias
- Megalomania and hypertrophic self-esteem
- Paranoia
- Eating Disorders
- Burn out
- Stress
- Loss of contact with temporal reality
- Depressive attacks
- First dependency symptoms
In the first part of the trip, follow the ANSIOUS EPISODES and the FOBIAS
“Have you heard that? I think I have a snake under the bed !!! Ah it's not raining ... my god! Won't it be a typhoon ??? ”
To soon leave room for aLIBERTY SENSATION Y MEGALOMANIA
“Joer, you have to see how cool I am, traveling here with little pasta, I'm very cool! I am the Indiana Jones of the new century! Molo mogollon! At least that will think of my people ”
This phase lasts until the first tourist-hunting you time, then returns the PARANOID PHASE
“I am a pringao! If I have written guiri on the forehead! Karmaaaaa what have I done to you? ”
After months the EATING DISORDERS,since the traveler's blood will have an amount of starch never seen (it is what he has to eat rice 2 times a day 7 days a week). They are characteristic periods of NOSTALGIA followed by BURN-OUT and STRESS:
“How I miss the ham! I can't take the backpack anymore! The next trip I go in a minimalist plan, two shirts and two pants. It is done! Well come and camera, notebook, pen and mp3. Ok and just a little makeup, just in case. But nothing more!".
The first episodes of DEPENDENCE
”Give me dumplings, give me more, give me more !!! I want others! Pork and veal, the doooooos! ”
But the biggest crisis comes over the equator of the trip with a strong DEPRESSIVE ATTACK, INCREDULITY, INABILITY TO CONTEXTUALIZE THE REALITY AND THE PASSING OF TIME
"What??? Has half already passed? I can't believe it! We only have X months left? Can not be!"
PHASE III: THE RETURN
Symptom:
- Major depressive episodes
- Hallucinations
- Outbuildings
- Obsessive-compulsive disturbance
DEPRESSION OF THE CHUNGAS.Imagine being a child who has lived in a toy and candy store for 9 months. And now they have returned you to your home store: a hardware store
“What do I do with such a mess? I just want to eat candy and play some more! ”
They are also present in this phase AUDITIVE, OLFATIVE AND VISUAL ALUCINATIONS
"I swear, I saw the elephant we saw in Thailand crossing Gran Vía, and I heard someone speaking Laosian who cooked nasi goereng!"
Appear OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE BEHAVIORS
"I will see the photos of the trip again, yes I know them by heart but I like them so much ..."
The DEPENDENCE It is already based on the patient's daily life
“Hey, I saw an offer with Ryanair, are we going to Rome? Maybe there I can also find dumplings, anyway I take a few ”
The cure is unknown today. The only thing that occurs to me is to assemble the backpack once more and go through phases I and II again, because III is unbearable! Does anyone come on a trip?
