Does traveling for work make you depressed?

Travel-related stress can spark mood changes, depression, and anxiety. Travel can worsen symptoms in people with existing mental illness. Below are some steps you can take before and during travel that may help reduce stress and protect your mental health.



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“Business travel can be indeed grueling as it takes you away from your regular routine. As a result, people have limited access to supports that keep them healthy and emotionally stable,” says psychologist Charmian Jackman. That's no small task, given how frenetic and exhausting business travel can be.

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Travel can be a relaxing escape, but it can also be stressful and affect your mental health. Travel-related stress can spark mood changes, depression, and anxiety. Travel can worsen symptoms in people with existing mental illness.

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Travel fatigue is a total exhaustion caused by too many days or weeks of constantly being on “alert” while you travel. It manifests as apathy toward travel activities that usually excite you, and a lack of motivation to enjoy local culture and cuisine.

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Though there's no one cause for travel anxiety, some common ones are fear of flying, fear of crowds, fear of crashing, fear of social interactions, fear of guns, fear of disease (insert Covid here), and, perhaps biggest of all, fear of the unknown and being outside your comfort zone.

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Jet lag is a type of fatigue caused by travelling across different time zones. The body needs anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to acclimatise to the new time zone – approximately one day for each hour of time zone changes.

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Traveling between different climates can confuse our bodies and make us more susceptible to illnesses because our immune systems aren't sure how to react. Your body has to readjust to the new temperature before it can fight off any symptoms coming your way, allowing you to feel sick much faster.

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Traveling for work benefits both employees and companies in various ways. Employees get to visit new places and experience different cultures, learn new skills, interact with other people within the industry, and more.

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The Passport Photo Online survey found that the foremost stress-inducing task for travelers was creating an itinerary before their trip.

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That means you would spend 75% of your time going to different locations meeting with clients and 25% of your time working from an office. Many fields involve some travel, including: Tourism and hospitality.

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80% travel typically means every week, M-Th at the client site. Fly out early Monday AM, leave the client site Th afternoon.

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