What to do if you don’t want to go to work? Here’s a guide to defeating “post-holiday syndrome”!

The days of vacation are comfortable, but whether you like it or not, the Spring Festival holiday is over in a blink of an eye. Switching from holiday mode to work mode, do you feel dizzy, inattentive, irritable, anorexic, or even anxious, neurasthenic, etc.? The thought of going to work makes you feel uncomfortable and your body feels as if it has been "hollowed out"... This state is called "post-holiday syndrome."

How anxious are people? The fact that "40,000 anti-hair loss sprays sold before work" has become a hot search is a good example. Tian Hong, chief physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said that "post-holiday syndrome" is not a medical disease, but a state of mind. It refers to the situation when people suddenly go from a relaxed state of vacation to a tense state of work, and their physiological and psychological balance is broken, which leads to a series of problems, such as feeling tired and lack of energy in the days after the holiday, and lower efficiency in work and study.

Have you been affected by these major post-holiday performances?

1. Sleep disorders

Excessive entertainment during long holidays, or even staying up late, will cause the body to lack rest and disrupt the body's normal biological clock, which will lead to sleep disorders.

2. Gastrointestinal dysfunction

Eating and drinking are inevitable during the holidays. After indulging, some people may experience heavy stomach burden and indigestion, leading to symptoms such as bloating, abdominal pain, nausea, and diarrhea.

3. Fatigue and anxiety

After a highly exciting and lively holiday, you may immediately return to a quiet life and experience psychological problems such as depression, annoyance, and boredom. You may also experience inattention, mental tension, irritability, fatigue, and weakness.

4. Addiction to mobile phone

Spending a long time on your phone during the holidays will not only make you over-dependent on your phone, but also cause headaches, neck pain, back pain and other discomforts due to long-term bowing of the head or sitting for a long time.

Hu Xiaoyu, a psychotherapist at Sichuan Psychiatric Center, said that modern people are constantly in a tense, fast-paced, and high-pressure work and life state, and they have excessive expectations of "liberating the body and mind, completely relaxing, and staying away from work" during long vacations. Therefore, when the long vacation is over, there will be a huge psychological gap of "returning to boring work again." In addition, the living conditions of some people during the vacation are very different from those during normal times. From irregular work and rest, eating, drinking, and having fun to returning to orderly work all of a sudden, they need a transition and adaptation process both psychologically and physiologically.

Adjust your life rhythm and go to work with full energy

1. Adjust your work and rest schedule as soon as possible and relax your brain

The best way to quickly recover your physical strength is to get enough sleep. After work, go to bed early and get up early, and have an orderly daily routine. After work, go home early, try not to participate in social or entertainment activities, avoid being too excited, and don't stay up late. With light music, close your eyes and take deep breaths while meditating. You can also do some massage to relax your body better. Taking a hot bath or soaking your feet before going to bed, and drinking a cup of hot milk can help you sleep.

2. Adjust your diet to reduce the burden on your stomach and intestines

During the holidays, people eat greasy food at various gatherings, and staying up late puts a heavy burden on the stomach. Therefore, after the long vacation, you should pay attention to adjusting your diet, such as eating on time, returning to normal three meals a day, eating more light foods such as fruits, fresh vegetables, and porridge. You can also take some stomach-strengthening and digestion-promoting tablets or hawthorn tablets to give your "overburdened" stomach and intestines a rest. During the holidays, you can also eat some foods rich in vitamin A, such as spinach and carrots, because vitamin A has a certain effect on preventing vision loss.

3. Exercise moderately to relieve stress

After controlling the diet, moderate exercise at night can help the gastrointestinal tract adjust to a normal state. Exercise can not only relieve stress and control weight, but also promote sleep. We can do our favorite sports after get off work, such as jogging, swimming, dancing, badminton, square dancing, etc., so that the tired body can get active rest, so as to carry out post-holiday work more vigorously.

4. The intensity of work after the holiday should not be too high, and it needs to be gradual.

It is not advisable to carry out too much work in the short term after the holiday, but to proceed step by step, finish the necessary simple work first, do not put too much pressure on yourself, and avoid problems such as anxiety and depression. You need to give yourself a buffer period for role switching and slowly transition to the intense working state before the holiday.

If you know that you can't concentrate, you can adjust to the work and rest schedule of the weekdays on the last day of the holiday, make a work schedule, sort the work of the next day according to the importance, and complete the routine tasks on time and with quality. You can also divide your work and study into small goals, and reward yourself with a smile every time you complete a goal. Of course, you can also recall the work plan you made at the beginning of the year, use the work goals you set to cheer yourself up and re-stimulate your work enthusiasm.