Sunday Syndrome, the worry of Monday.

I have struggled on Sundays for ages, the day starts well and then the fear of Monday starts to set in, anxiety becomes intolerable and a whole night is spent with insomnia. This has gone on for more years than I can remember. My wife turned round two weeks ago and said to me, “ why do you fight this? Just have Monday off and have a day of doing what you want to do”. We had the discussion that, would Tuesday become Monday? No it doesn’t. To quote the Boomtown rats,  I don’t like Mondays. I am self employed, I never have a lunch hour, that’s 4 hours, I don’t mind working on a Saturday morning, that’s 4 hours. Obviously that’s one days work. I thought my wife would be angry with me for being at home on a Monday. She is an NHS nurse and my best friend. Her answer came from the film, Love Actually through The first lobster. DER!

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  • Hi all, I saw this was posted a couple of years ago but I'll have a go at asking a question around this. Thanks for sharing. I was recently diagnosed with autism (i'm a 35 woman). For a few a year or so now I have been experience very intense feeling of sadness and depressed mood on Mondays. Very intense feelings of being down. I am very much struggling to manage this. I have a long-time therapist and we've tried so many things but nothing seems to help. I love my job and have wonderful colleagues. I'm an academic so there's a bit of ongoing pressure for me to 'perform'. I work from home all the time so it's not the stress of going to work. I was just wondering if this is something you share and if you have found something that work for you since posting this? Thanks!

  • Thank you for reviving memories of more "complete" times in this place Melodie, by reviving this thread.

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