Mind Matters: Homesickness

Ever been homesick? Most of us have. “Homesickness is the distress and functional impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home and attachment objects such as parents,” state Christopher Thurber, and Edward Walton, M.D., in Pediatrics: 119 (Jan 2007, p 192-201). (Also available on the web: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/1/192.) Even though, as a high schooler, I had spent one summer in a journalism camp in…

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