• Novelty wears off

  • Escape and withdrawal

    • Avoid seeing people

    • Don’t accept invitations

    • Increase in sleep

  • Anxiety

  • Resistance to adjustment

  • Reacting to things or noticing how

  • home doesn’t measure up (Storti)

  • Critical of home country (Storti)

  • Mood swings

  • Idealizing time abroad

  • See how your changes now set you apart

  • Feel misunderstood and/or alienated

  • Unsure you should have come home

 


Back

    • Tired

    • Lower immune resistance

    • Loss of appetite or binge eating

    • Overwhelmed with responsibilities of starting over

    • Numb

    • Miss speaking your foreign language

    • Pace of life

    • Feeling of helplessness (Brown/Montemurro)

    • Restlessness

    • Reverse homesickness

    • Boredom

    • Inability to focus

    • Uncertainty and confusion