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10 Things All People With Homesickness Deal With

Learn the side effects of being, or becoming friends with a person diagnosed with homesickness.

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10 Things All People With Homesickness Deal With

It's not easy for everybody to leave their home. For some people, it is more than not easy, it is downright unimaginable. Every day people who deal with homesickness, myself included, go through these 10 things on a daily basis to an extent which makes us want to legitimately rip our hair out. If you know someone who seems to never wants to leave the house, but you can't figure out why, this list may come in handy. You can determine if your friends suffer from homesickness, or maybe you yourself have been feeling it recently but haven't been able to determine what that feeling is. Homesickness may be undiagnosed in most of us, but more than enough of us know we are homesick.

1. Dealing with any type of problem is always easier at home, on the couch preferably.

2. If your friends wanted to have a sleepover they already knew that it was going to be at your house, no ifs ands or buts.

3. Leaving home to go somewhere far away for any period of time is the worst.

4. No matter how great the place is you're going, you will always miss your pets.

5.Your house has its own unique smell, and no one else's house can compete.


6. FaceTiming with your loved ones is never enough to make you feel any less homesick. (Plus, it never actually connects anyway!)

7. It doesn't matter if the new place you're sleeping at has a tempurpedic mattress, you will always miss sleeping in your own comfy bed.


8. It's OK to admit you will deeply miss Mr. Cuddlemuffin (or whatever you call your favorite teddy bear).

9. No matter how aggravating your parents may be, you secretly miss them, too.

10. As Dorothy once said, "There's no place like home" and this is the thing we miss the most. The simple feeling of being able to say, "I'm home."

In the end, although homesickness may be undiagnosed, it is certainly something that many people suffer from on a daily basis. Homesickness is somewhat an indescribable feeling, yet it is is one of the worst feelings a person can experience. I recommend never telling someone who is homesick to "get over it" because it's not something a person can simply get over. If your friends seem to be suffering and they are feeling any of the listed items above I would suggest taking them home. Lastly, never be ashamed of feeling homesick. Millions of people experience the same feelings and urges to be home every day. You are not alone, in fact you may be surrounded by people feeling the same things as you are so never be so quick to judge. Homesickness is a real thing, and there are a number of ways to help treat it, with the number one cure being to simply go home.

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