Restless J syndrome

Causes: Seeing off too many good friends at the airport, disruptive shift-work, lack of friends around during days off, family illness, lack of girlfriend, surmounting end of year bills, stupid hospital admin, propsect of 'another' term in ED.

History: Patient usually spends time at work wishing they were not and when not at work bored out of their brain and wishing they were anywhere else. Gets frustrated with life for no particular reason. Intolerance for minor issues and excessive somnolence. Poor dietary intake of take away.

Tests: Seretonin level, intolerance severity index, TFTs, EEG.

Treatment: Gold standard therapy is with multidrug therapy of holidayavir combined with peoplepril. Delays in initiating treatment can lead to the morbid complication of 'burnout' which can only be rectified by goinghomestatin.

Each week I hear of yet another friend taking off overseas/interstate on holidays and I just watch out the window of my house and watch the planes fly overhead wishing I was going too. Everyone else is getting exctied about the holiday season and I am stuck in ED on Christmas Day with no family or friends.

It's just hard to get excited about life when all it consists of is work and sleep. Work itself is actually not that bad at the moment. But somehow it's just not satisfying.