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Sunday Syndrome, the worry of Monday.

Roy

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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  • Thank you for your kind messages, the feeling physically sick in the mornings is the worst part. Autistic people tend to be very intelligent and logical people, I can’t work out why anxiety is so prevalent in many of us. 
    I had a massive meltdown about a year ago and had a headache afterwards for days, I thought I had actually damaged my brain. Since then I have been constantly tired and have no interest in anything. To be honest working 4 days a week is as much as I can cope with. I have loved working on classic cars since I was a child, I look at them at work and have no interest. Some days I stop talking completely and don’t eat.

    I spoke to my mother a few weeks ago, through my childhood she tried to commit suicide on many occasions. She said for the first time that she didn’t want to die, she just wanted it all to stop. Don’t worry I’m not going to kill myself but I can now understand where she is coming from if that makes sense.

  • in reply to Roy

    Roy do you think you might be experiencing burnout? Some of the things you say chime with me in a period a few years ago that I now recognise as burnout and am probably still recovering from.

  • in reply to out_of_step

    I think your right, when I had my big meltdown it was about 2 months after realising that I’m autistic. My brain had gone into overdrive trying to process 50 + years of  thinking that I was the only person who functions like me, I still find it really strange that there are so many people like me.

    I should have gone with my wife today to one of the Canary Islands, she has had to go with my mother. I went to the same hotel in February and it was a struggle. It is an all inclusive hotel, I had a meltdown in the restaurant and felt like a fool afterwards. I walked in and there was a strong smell of garlic, people were talking and plates clattering, I couldn’t find a food that I could eat or tolerate. It was all of a sudden as if the walls were closing  in on me. It’s as if in the last year I’ve become more autistic, I know that’s not a correct thing to say. It’s like my brain is not willing to hide anymore. I’m sure I will get a handle on it all, it’s just been a lot to process.

  • in reply to Number

    Thanks Number. Haha, in the world of bicycles it's more that I have an extra wheel!

  • in reply to AuTriker

    AuTriker......NOT missing ANY wheels in my opinion. x

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