How to tell if you suffer from travel addiction. When wanderlust takes over your life

Travel addiction is an uncontrollable psychological need to wander, and it can disrupt lives and ruin relationships. With the ease of international travel and rise in the number of digital nomads, dromomania could be on the increase

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If you find yourself obsessing about travel, you could have dromomania. Photo : Alamy

Published: 6:00pm, 3 Nov 2017Updated: 7:27pm, 4 Nov 2017

Do you find yourself overcome by sadness when a holiday comes to an end? Do the images on social media of other people in exotic locales make you feel slightly nauseous?

Have you ever lied about the amount of travel daydreaming you do to family and friends? Ever compulsively obsessed over your next trip when you’ve only just returned from the last?

If the answer is yes to any of the above questions, then you might want to ask your doctor whether travel addiction is afflicting you.

According to some experts, travel addiction is very real, and it can be as disruptive to your life as any other dependency.

Dr Michael Brein is known as the “Travel Psychologist”.

Dr Michael Brein, who goes by the moniker “The Travel Psychologist,” recently told Condé Nast Traveler: “The short answer is yes, it’s possible. But figuring out what causes it is incredibly complicated.

“Travel addiction is much more psychological (than biochemical); Like anything, if you let it overwhelm you, it can have serious effects on other aspects of your life.”