We would like to take a moment to warn about a possible serious medical condition you could be suffering called PTTS.
What's PTTS? Post-Trip Traumatic Shock. When vacationing at Disney World, the joy of being at the parks creates elevated serotonin levels in the brain. Longer trips over several days exposes the brain to prolonged periods of higher serotonin levels. However, when the trip ends and the serotonin levels return to normal levels, the brain suffers "reality crash" - the realization the trip is over is the first-phase the PTTS. One condition of PTTS is WDW (Withdrawal from Disney World), where the brain goes "cold-turkey" from addictive elevated serotonin levels generated by the theme-parks.
To give you an idea of how serious this can be, let me tell a case study of "anonymous" Disney fan who once suffered PTTS. He had an immediate WDW attack on the morning of the last day of his vacation before returning home. His PTTS was so severe that his family had no choice to force him into the car trunk with the luggage in order to get him to the airport. This is the side effect to being at Disney World for eight days.
Other side effects of PTTS besides WDW is fatigue, sore legs, increased credit debt, decreased fiscal assets, weight gain, depression, increased consumption of chocolate, and at least one reported case of uncontrollable mouseketinkling.
There are those who engage extreme past-times such as skydiving and bungee jumping from bridges, but brief exhiliration is a poor substitution of the joy from a Disney theme-park. There are even those caught slumming at Universal Studios trying to generate the same thrill but, again, it's a poor substitute.
There are safer methods of therapy to deal with PTTS. Planning for the next trip to Disney World is known to relieve PTTS.
Also sharing your trip with friends or family members is known to help relieve PTTS; however, studies have shown that after the 1,568 photo of your first day at Disney World, there's a 68% chance that the friend or family member will commit homicide or suicide to avoid seeing photograph #1,569.
A safer course is sharing your trip experience with other people who have also had PTTS as they are withstand 20,000+ photographs you have taken on your trip and are actually excited to hear in detail your trip experience. Luckily for you, there are plenty of those people right here on the Subsonic forum.
So, in other words, welcome back and we're dying to hear your trip reports...and remember, those trip reports are vital to your health. The life you save may be your own.
