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Homesickness is the distress or impairment caused by
an actual or anticipated separation from the specific home environment or
attachment objects. The term is in origin a loan translation of nostalgia,
a learned term coined in Baroque period medicine. The Oxford English
Dictionary describes homesickness as a feeling one has when missing home.
Feelings of longing are often accompanied by anxiety and depression. These
symptoms may range from mild to severe.
Homesickness frequently occurs when one travels and may be
exacerbated by unfamiliar environments or foreign cultural contexts.
Homesickness is especially common in youth. Young people may experience a sense
of dread, helplessness, or separation anxiety on their first day of school, summer
camp, or on a protracted summer vacation away from the family. Many first-year
students at boarding schools or universities also experience homesickness. Some
new members on military basic training and members on missions or deployments
might also experience it.
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