How to recover from severe travel burnout and flight dread

“I can’t stop having severe panic and crying from burnout.”source ↗

“Everything is so robotic and numb. I want to be me again. How would you step away from this ?”source ↗

“I want to quit right away because there’s no end in sight. But theres a mental block stopping me from doing that.”source ↗

“It's funny how during the days off, time literally flies like a super sonic. Like slow down! During the school days, time moves in agony, slow as molasses!”source ↗

“Weekends feel like a 30 minute lunch break.”source ↗

“The absolute worst. Even prep flies by.”source ↗

“I try to live that way but sometimes even I sacrifice my mental health for this job. I think that's part of it, unfortunately, and wish it wasn't!”source ↗

“We don't get veterans day off either. Federal holidays are not automatic school holidays in NJ public schools! 0 days off in October.”source ↗

“I'm really feeling it after coming back from NY.”source ↗

“I knew it was temporary and I soaked it all in but I still feel that depression.”source ↗

“Its just tough to feel like I'm mourning right now.”source ↗

“this last trip was just exhausting - constant driving, followed by a several hours flight which was painful to sit for longer than an hour.”source ↗

“I’d like to hear thoughts from others who’ve had a similar burnout and if you eventually overcame this after taking a break? I dread getting on a plane again.”source ↗

“I always (and I mean always) wake up at approx 3am the second, third and sometimes fourth night and my body will absolutely refuse to let me fall back asleep again until 6:30/7am.”source ↗

“Reading this at 4am on my third night back from Canada to Europe 😭 I'm so tired of this. waking up at 3:00 staying awake until 6 then feeling sleepy all day.”source ↗

“I had 1-2 years where I had such travel fatigue that even tho I wanted to travel I could not make an itinerary to save my life”source ↗

“When I finally get home I'm usually so exhausted and tired of flying that I tell myself I'll stay home the next vacation opportunity I have.”source ↗

“I was anticipating it but its just a strange feeling when I come home, its slower, no sight seeing, lack of novelty, and stimulation from being out all day.”source ↗

“The crash is pretty hard.”source ↗

“My last international trip (Nov-Dec '25) had terrible layovers and that put me off from flying anywhere for "a long time".”source ↗

“Went to several Asian countries and after the 8th country I was tired. Still happy I was visiting but just physically and mentally tired.”source ↗

“I can’t handle flights over 10 hours for this reason. I also stay in 1-2 cities at max now and I can’t hop around so different areas like I used to.”source ↗

“First night after arriving, slept like 9 hours, 2nd night I was sure all was good, took my melatonin and magnesium before bed and then proceeded to just sleep in 20 minute power naps totally to around 2hrs in total”source ↗

“Every time, like clockwork, no matter what I did. The 2nd night was the hard one, and I didn’t always get ideal sleep on that night even if I followed the same protocol.”source ↗

“I need help, around a year ago i got signed off for burnout for 3 days which was insufficient.”source ↗

“After a further 6 months i got signed off for stress for 2 months but ended up leaving within a month after returning.”source ↗

“I'm now at the point where all joy has been taken from my job and wondering how other people dealt with being signed off through stress?”source ↗

“for further information, i used to work 70+ hour weeks keeping everything in check and frequently went months without leave that led to being signed off.”source ↗

“How would you spend 3 months to bounce back from burnout?”source ↗

“Now I can feel motivation and work quality decline.”source ↗