Who gets clinically depressed upon leaving WDW?

[mickey0216]

Add me to the list. While I don't cry, I do get sad.

It bothers me that you to spend so much time planning/preparing/packing and etc for your trip. You get more excited as the weeks go by. By the time your countdown timer gets to single digits... you're ready to explode. You can't concentrate at work and the days drag on and on. Your friends and co-workers get tired of you mentioning your vacation. Finally the big day comes and your on your way. Unfortunately your vacation is over in what seems like minutes. It just isn't fair.

Maybe it's time to look at DVC...

 

[Golliwobbler]

...sooo how do you get over it? I hear that another trip planned is good, or getting going on the next trip. That sounds right. We cam back last the time and immediately started working on my sister and her family, and my parents, to get them to sign on to a family reunion. and I've got a BIG birthday coming up which deserves a special kind of celebration too...

What I do is to make sure I've got enough stuff coming away to keep me busy for months and months. Pin trading keeps going afterwards, and we do mini-inside pin trades with pins I've got stored up like Chip and Dale's nuts. I actually do trip accounting (keep receipts) to cost out and compare trips and parts of trips, as it lets me relive again this days, meals, events, etc. I go back over my trip plan and do writeups (like a diary) before the finer details are lost in time. I rearrange the Disney add-ons on the Potato heads (and put them back on the living room mantle, where DW takes them down and hides them from me...but I always find them and put them back....I'm a good finder ;-)

Then I write to you all. And keep scanning mousesavers, allearsnet, the Disney web pages, sign up for their latest email notification, fill in another Disney poll, go back through the digital pictures and movie clips, rearrange (someday I'll start doing editing and such to really get serious)...just about anything. I guess the only thing I haven't done is to call up the reservations or tours line just to talk..."hi, may I help you?" me - "no, not really, but have you ridden Everest yet?"

 

[jonestavern]

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what a beautiful picture!

I find myself standing in our resort room just being still to 'absorb' the atmosphere I can get weepy on the 1st day, but I get a grip-
We too,try to fill that last day to the brim & we now have our little parting
rituals to ease those heart pangs. "See you later" rituals & planning for future trips & DVC keep it from hurting
Dizzy4Dizny--love your chart! I am going to make one for our family!
See you at the World!

Jean

 

[The House of Mouse]

I cry watching Wishes, usually the last thing we do...

I call it the Holiday Hangover when we return home, uugghh!

 

[MinnieGi]

Oh, yes this describes me! I am euphoric upon arrival at our resort and feel so great that I have a whole Disney week ahead of me and then in what seems like a blink of an eye its time to pack up and leave! I sigh alot that last day. When I get home I need to get on the DISboards as fast as I can to start curing the depression away!!!

 

[oxfordcircus]

I actually do trip accounting (keep receipts) to cost out and compare trips and parts of trips, as it lets me relive again this days, meals, events, etc.

I do the receipt thing too. I have a whole bag of receipts waiting for me to go through. I find it to be an excellent way to jog your memory. I also go through the kids' autograph books and pressed coin collections. They mean way more to me than they do to the kids!

 

[flyinglizard]

After reading all these posts, the only thing I can think of is how proud and pleased Walt would be, to know his dream of "a place where families could have fun together", is still coming true after almost 40 years!

I guess that really is " Disney magic"!

I agree with all the posters above- yes, the DVC is an excellent investment for any "Disney family". Basically, it's the old "Pay me now, or pay me later..." premise, but I can say it has proved to be some of the best money I ever spent, and that's the honest truth! Plus, it's a great help to avoid PDD knowing when you are coming back "home"!

I was never able to take a two week vacation, because I could not be away from my business for that long. Instead, with the help of Southwest low airfares, we settled for multiple short trips, Sun-Thurs (to conserve DVC points) each year. Sure we hated to leave, but we always knew we'd be back soon. And I was ususally anxious to get back to work, to catch up on everything and to earn the time and money for our next trip!

Yeh, we too shared the "this time last week..." moments for the week after every trip. Never thought so many other people did the same thing! But we also exchanged "this time next week..." thoughts before every trip!

Anyway, now we live very near Disney World and PDD is no longer a problem. But we still say "this time last week" to mark special moments from our last visit when we enjoyed being together at Disney as a family. We still treasure our DVC points, and it's still one of my best investments I ever made!

For all of you now suffering from PDD, your next trip is coming, if you will make it happen. The place where families enjoy adventure and fun together is still there and waiting for you. Keep dreaming the wishes your heart makes, and it will come true.

The "magic" is real... and you have found that!

 

[Donna]

Add me to the list. While I don't cry, I do get sad.

It bothers me that you to spend so much time planning/preparing/packing and etc for your trip. You get more excited as the weeks go by. By the time your countdown timer gets to single digits... you're ready to explode. You can't concentrate at work and the days drag on and on. Your friends and co-workers get tired of you mentioning your vacation. Finally the big day comes and your on your way. Unfortunately your vacation is over in what seems like minutes. It just isn't fair.

Maybe it's time to look at DVC...

I can attest that looking into/buying into DVC will help your PDD! (post disney depression). That way, you know there's a trip around the very short corner! You also won't have a hotel bill waiting for you at the end of your stay! Honesty, I know it sounds ironic, but if it weren't for dvc, i could not afford disney! then again, i bought in when it was $60 something a point and with my cm discount got as low as $48 a pt. Relatively speaking, it's still cheaper than buying a regular room for a week at disney! Go for it!

 

[Daxx]

DS9 and I always cry when we have to leave WDW. We always take the last possible flight out of MCO so that we can spend more time in the park. Who cares if we get home at midnight ... it's worth it to have a long day in the park!!!

Anyway, that last walk down Main Street, USA, we turn and look at the castle and make our memory ... and that image is what we keep in our heads whenever we start feeling depressed about not being in WDW. I am soooo ready to go back ... and we were last there in Jan.!!!!!

Thinking about our "memory" and planning the next trip and thinking about it are the ONLY things that help us get over the depression slump!!!!

 

[Debbie]

I remember looking over at my, then 8 year old, DD on the last day, tears streaming down her face . She said, "Mommy, PLEASE, don't bring me to Disney anymore. It hurts too much to leave." Now, she's been many times, since, but it's been almost 3 years for her and her younger DSis. So....now I get, "Mommy, PLEASE take us to Disney. Look at all those people with the countdown thingies. PLEASE!!" (Guess what I'm trying really hard to do?)

 

[WeLoveThePoly]

Oh yeah, we all know that feeling.

Watching people check into your resort as you are checking out is torture!

Debbie

 

[Donna]

I always feel so good walking off that people mover and those poor people in the security line, i feel so bad! but then a week or so later, there i am watching the lucky ones get OFF the people mover and i am trudging thru security, on the verge of tears!

 

[huckster]

me we cant go till 2007 how will i ever make thru the sadness , i keep going over budget it just aint happening

 

[DisneyGerry]

It seems the last day we stretch it out fearing the inevitable of departing this HAPPIEST CELEBRATION ON EARTH. One trip in front of MK and looking over Seven Seas I said take a good look: you wont see GF in the AM, nor Poly, nor Ferry Boat--My 5 yrs old said you wont see HCOE back home?

I do feel rejuvenated when I come home and yes, quickly booking next trip helps being back in reality as well.

Surely its got to be the Disney Magic but also being in the Culture of Life. It is when we return we see all the examples of the Culture of Death.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Um, clinically depressed? Do you know what that truly is??

Sure, I get sad when I leave. But clinically depressed, no. I'd say I'd have real issues if that was the case.

 

[PatriciaH]

Just wonder if we're the only ones. I suspect we're not.

No, you are not alone. That is why we moved here

 

[mickeyluv]

Yes, I have tears of joy when I see the castle again at MK and then I have tears of sadness when it's time to come home! We probably won't be able to go back to WDW for a couple of years after this trip so I'm going to try to savor every little minute of it.

 

[Mellie2162]

Thank you so much for your great response!!! DH said, after I read him your answer, that if it is something I want to do, we can certainly look in to it further. woo hoo. With him that usually means okay.

Your welcome. The last time we were there my DH actually came into the room after checking out the DVC rep in the lobby and said "why did we not do this 6 years ago?" I had no clue what he was even talking about so he made me check out the DVC channel on tv and I was sold! We came home and got our act together and as soon as we were able to purchase we did. Had we not done that it would be the same old every 2-3 year trip for us. Now we can go each year and by buying APs we get 2 trips out of them by going a week earlier than they expire. Now with the dining plan its even more reasonable for us.

Not to get away from the OP's post but really we would get so sad during the middle of our stay knowing that it would be 2 to 3 years before we could come back again and thats really why we did it.

 

[oxfordcircus]

Um, clinically depressed? Do you know what that truly is??

Sure, I get sad when I leave. But clinically depressed, no. I'd say I'd have real issues if that was the case.

Yes, I do. And yes, it qualifies as a "real issue".

 

[David R]

Do you know that sign where Mickey reminds you to buckle up? I used to get depressed whenever I saw it because we only saw it after a great vacation and it meant I was going back to the real world and to the cold midwest.

So one day I decided that I just needed to move to Orlando, FL. I applied to a few jobs, flew to a couple interviews and I was made an offer which I accepted immediately and have not looked back.

If you love WDW so much and moving is an option, think seriously about it! The magic is different when you live here, but it's still a lot of fun!

Now I just smile whenever I see the buckle up sign knowing that home is just 10 minutes away from the magic.