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Back in a familiar environment, back working at the boring job or a job at all, back spying at the same boring neighbor and your mind still back in the days spent lazying on the beach, or soaking up the culture of that foreign land?

It is often difficult to return to the everyday life after a holiday, as if the real world suddenly crashed onto you, you drop into a black hole of post holiday blues.

To overcome these post holiday blues, you must first understand the cause of your depression. Is it the fact that you are no longer spending days without agenda, without having to wake up early to fight the city traffic into a long day of laborious work? Or are you suffering reverse culture shock, where you have just experienced life outside your comfort zone, and finding it difficult to return to a world full of materialism and consumerism?

There are many ways to overcome your post holiday blues once you have determined the cause of your blues. These include vast verbal and written communication as well as forming an action plan for the future.

1. Speak to like-minded people
Often we find it most difficult to overcome these post holiday blues is when all those friends and family around you seem to be too content with their current lives and they simply just don't understand nor be too interested in your experience at all. One way to overcome this is to speak to those who may have gone on the trip with you, or write to friends you may have made on your way and talk about all the wonderful memories of your travels. Share photos on a website, join an e-community of traveler that have been to the same places and share each other's experiences. Each time you recount the stories you are sure to smile and laugh, and be able to relive the happy moments again.

2. Write about it
Writing is great therapy for those little things deep in your heart of which you cannot quite express and share with others. How much do we all wish to be able to share that happy moment when you held hands with the local children you met in Peru, or the sweet warm sun of the Greek Islands. Remember those who haven't been there with you possibly and simply cannot feel the same way you do when you were on holidays and to extract those feelings out, take out a journal, or get on a blog and write it all down. Describe everything you have seen, everything you have felt and everyone you have met, describe the local people, describe the local cuisines. Put it all in your own words, in a way only you can understand

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