Originally Posted By: Superflan
Originally Posted By: Ducked
Le cafard?
Exactly. Tell me more?
Dunno. Everyone's situation is different. You're on a French tropical island paradise and you're depressed. I'm on a Chinese tropical island industrial stinkpot and I'm depressed
The phrase is often associated with the French Foreign Legion (dunno if the Spanish Foreign Legion have an equivalent phrase) , where it went with boredom/inactivity and isolation, and went away in action, so you could try being more active and/or less isolated.
I wouldn't personally recommend joining the Legion, though it seems quite popular.
Danger seems to work quite well, though. When I was younger I used to ride my motorcycle beyond my skill level (not difficult). At a very low point (though after a relationship end so perhaps a special case) I went climbing on the Forth Rail Bridge on New Years Eve. Scared the **** out of myself (I don't like heights) and when I got back on the ground I was glad to be alive. I had a cup of coffee.
Have a cup of coffee.
As various people have pointed out, the timing suggests an association with a return to work. I'm in that situation at the moment (first teaching day of the new semester) and its caused not so much by the job unpleasantness, as by the feeling that I have wasted the vacation, both in terms of fun activities, and in terms of not being properly prepared for new classes.
So don't do what I do. Do what you have to do, then do what you want to do, but do do that voodoo.
Carpe diem.
Dey aint makin many more of dem.