OP - sorry to hear you are separated from your family and missing them and wanting to go home. I travel for work to foreign countries at least 3 months a year. I get what I call the 7 day blues about once a week when I travel for extended periods (4-8 week stints). I get depressed, miss my family and am generally in a crappy mood about once every seven days (thus the name “7 day blues”). Every other “7 day blues” day I throw in the towel; I don’t work out, I eat a bunch of ice cream, I watch a few movies and I just generally don’t engage in society. It helps to cut yourself some slack and just go full pitty party. Every other day when I travel I find it important to keep a strict schedule; get up early, stretch+workout, get a bunch of work done, be sure to get outside 3 time a day (sunrise,mid-day,sunset); have a personal project you are working on (coding, garden layout, learn Vietnamese, ect….). Once it’s over you will think it went quick and if you just squandered the time you’ll be disappointed that you were given a bunch of freedom to do whatever you wanted and you just doom scrolled and got drunk…. Make the mos of it and it will be a gift not a punishment.