Are you suffering from travel addiction or “vagabond neurosis”? Check.

This one, as I wrote the headline, had me saying a “yes” in my head. If “addiction” sounds too strong a word to you for travelholics, choose from “country collectors” or “tickers”! A recent study claims that travelling can be addictive if the said traveller is leaving no stones unturned for their next trip, risking pretty much everything that they own, including fortunes and partners.
You might wish to check if you are falling somewhere in the category if you have forsaken your dream job, a partner, your house, or shocking amounts of money to keep travelling. If the word “wanderlust” has become as strong as, perhaps, “lust” to you, you have pretty much joined the club of people addicted to travelling!


The study hints at travellers out to break records of visiting every country in the world, or every state in their country and more in the list. People quitting their job to travel sans any financial planning might very well figure in this list as well.
Final cue, if travelling has become your new routine without stoking your curiosity, personal growth or happiness, you are travel addicted my friend (so yes, I’m not addicted yet!). If travelling has become the new addiction, the term “vagabond neurosis” also made it to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in year 2000!


Neurosis or not, my word, as a traveller, is to keep the curiosity stoked. While the medical world keeps itself busy doing more researches, surveys and coining new terms, the footloose community can have the drug of their choice—travelling. Because all is well that ends in a trip.


PS: Do not quit that job to travel though; reward yourself with some hefty travel allowance in place.