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== Post-Vacation Stress Disorder (PVSD)

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A. The person has been exposed to a vacation in which both of the following were present: (1) the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or imagined fun and excitement, or a challenge of physical intensity to themselves or others (2) the person’s response involved intense fun, challenge, or excitement. Note: in children, this may be expressed instead by disorganized or agitated behavior B. The vacation is persistently re-experienced in one (or more) of the following ways: (1) recurrent and intrusive delightful recollections of the vacation, including images, thoughts, or perceptions. Note: In young children, repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspects of the vacation are expressed. (2) recurrent exciting dreams of the event. Note: In children, there may be really exciting dreams without recognizable content. (3) acting or feeling as if the vacation were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated). Note: In young children, vacation reenactment may occur. (4) intense psychological fun at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the vacation (5) physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the vacation C. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the vacation and numbing of general responsiveness (not present before the vacation), as indicated by three (or more) of the following: (1) efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the vacation (2) efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections of the vacation (3) inability to recall an important aspect of the vacation (4) markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities (5) feeling of detachment or estrangement from others (6) restricted rang of affect (e.g. unable to have fun feelings) (7) sense of a foreshortened future (e.g. does not expect to have another vacation for a long time) D. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the vacation), as indicated by two (or more) of the following: (1) difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep (2) irritability or outbursts of laughing (3) difficulty concentrating (4) hyper (5) exaggerated funny responses E. Duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criteria B, C, and D) is more than one week after the vacation F. The disturbance causes clinical staff significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Symptoms: Dazed, confused, dry mouth, hungry, loss of memory particularly regarding the job Treatment Recommendations: • Plan you next vacation • Buy yourself some flowers and smell them • Reminisce with co-workers about vacations • Pick or buy some fruit and eat it • Shred some papers from your shred pile • Drink plenty of water • Clear out old files and papers • Take a long lunch • Sit near a window • Schedule big blocks of time to do paperwork without seeing clients • Work on things that are fun • Throw away old papers • Go home early • Help others plan their vacations • Keep your vacation glow lit as long as possible