Fisher (1989), Baier & Welch (1992) and many others have found much evidence to support this claim. Examining the cognitive symptoms of homesickness, Fisher (1989:) reveals that there develops in the displaced person obsessive thoughts about home and sometimes simultaneously negative thoughts about the new place. Fisher also identifies a state of absent mindedness in the people affected. There is a tendency to idealise home rather than revisiting the problems one encountered there before (Van Tilburg, Vingerhoets & Van Heck, 1996: 903).