In the JET program (for new graduates teaching English in Japanese public schools for a year), new arrivals are actually given a schedule of what their feelings will be. Everyone I met in the program told me that they were sure they had done so much research that it wasn't going to happen to them. And everyone of them said it was uncannily accurate.
It really applies to all new ventures: Three weeks of honeymoon, then a downward trend as you start to recognize problems. At three months you hit a bottom because this is sufficient time to recognize almost all the problems but not sufficient time to develop coping skills. Then, somewhere around six months, you will be cruising through the supermarket or doing some other task that used to be daunting, and you'll suddenly realize you are just fine. I try to never, ever, make a major decision three months into anything, because it will be bad.
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