#SundayMorningScaries anyone? ๐ Do you feel that sense of dread creeping in every Sunday and morning, even though you don’t have a toxic job? It’s like a cloud of “I don’t want to do this, not today” hanging over you. Does it make you feel like you’re not in control of your time? I can relate! ๐
I’m curious, have you experienced this too? Let’s share insights and hopefully find some solutions together! ๐ค๐ฌ #SundayBlues #WorkdayDread #NotInControl #MentalHealthMatters
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below! ๐๐จ๏ธ
โThank god itโs Friday
Cause Fridays will always be better than Sundays,
Sundays are my suicide days.
I donโt know why they always seem so dismal
Thunder storms, clouds, snow, and a slight drizzleโ
Migraine by Twenty one pilots. Music helps me so I really recommend that song
It was the first time I heard someone else talk about it too
Definitely
Oh yes, except my job is toxic and itโs more like a constant underlying feeling of dread ๐
Me. I try to remind myself itโs never as bad as I think it is. Always at the end of the day Monday Iโm like, โWhy did I worry so much?โ
Sometimes helps, sometimes doesnโt.
Yeup most people experience this I think unless your one of those people who have no life outside of work.
32 hour work week plz
Saturday the only real day off cuz Sunday u got to calm down around evening to get ready for wagey cagey the next day
The fact that you are a slave and are controlled by others is setting in, that’s all.
I pretend I’m on Severance and try to keep outie me from thinking about innie me until I go into the elevator.
I’ve heard it said that company culture is how your employees feel on Sunday night.
my job is pretty easy and low stress in an office IT environment and I still start to feel dread as early as Saturday evening. Sunday is only half enjoyed because I am dreading Monday. Then Monday morning I wake up tired and sad. Rinse and repeat. I opt to take more smaller trips through-out the year rather than one or two big ones to help break it up or I would go crazy
Yes. Every day for the last 14 years lol. Changing jobs doesn’t seem to help.
Yes, but that’s the nature of work. We don’t want to do it.
It doesn’t have to be about work either; the dread comes from not wanting to fulfil a responsibility that we don’t want in the first place. I get the same feeling when I have to go to dinner to see family that I don’t want to see.
I did at my previous job, and it was toxic so Iโd say that definitely was why I had it. It always felt like walking on eggshells.
At my current job, no. Itโs wonderful to not have the feeling anymore.
I definitely experience this once it hits maybe 2-3pm on Sunday. Even though I still have a lot of time left in the day it’s like my brain just locks in to the idea that the weekend is over and I’m going back to work and it really kills my mood.
Yep.
Yes, I can absolutely relate to this. The part that bothers me the most is that I love my job (I would still never work again if given the chance, but its the best one I’ve ever had). I don’t do anything strenuous, I have a lot of downtime, I get benefits, profit sharing, paid time off, etc. I am lucky to do what I do, but I still dread coming in every day. I feel so much guilt because I know so many other jobs are much harder and get paid less. But knowing that this is my future, Monday to Friday, 52 weeks a year, FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, fills me with inescapable dread. You’re definitely not alone with these feelings!
Oh yeah, definitely not, “dread,” at times though, and is just dread. No need to minimize how we’re feeling even if it seems comparatively weak ๐คฃ
I love my job and I get this lol. I have anxiety + ptsd and ocd though so itโs not uncommon for me to feel this way about lots of things. Are you generally anxious?
1/3 of our life at work. 1/3 in bed and another third of actual freetime.
Absolutely! I go fishing to distract me from the idea of work
Sure. Sometimes tho I say to myself, I can make their day worse than they can make mine. The determination to be a petty piece of shit kinda gets me through the tough days.
I definitely used to in my toxic job, I hated everything about it. I donโt anymore in my new job. I like it very much, though I do usually think โI wish I had one more day to sleep in/lounge/garden/whateverโ (especially sleep in). I would say for me itโs more of a knee-jerk reaction rather than a holistic feeling of something negative. Iโm sure eventually Iโll start feeling a bit more bummed, Iโve only been in my new job three weeks.
Sometimes! But I think it actually is a sort of mild depression.
Like, objectively most of the people with this problem are pretty lucky. Do you live in a first world country, with gainful stable employment that covers cost of living plus a bit extra? Congrats, in practical terms you’re ahead of 90% or more of all living humans. Developing country but have decent paying work? Ahead of 80% of the people in your home most likely.ย
This isn’t some terrible affliction, the need to contribute economic value (work) in order to receive economic benefits (stuff). For sure there’s lots of unfairness in the world but most of us in this thread benefit from that unfairness more than we suffer from it. Way more.ย
So then yeah, it’s a psychological or philosophical problem. For me it helps to see that clearly and address it head on. Possibly your problem boils down to like, not enough dopamine and endorphins, and can be solved with exercise, more sleep, and a better diet.ย
Or lots of things. Maybe it’s a latent existential crisis (one must imagine Sisyphus happy). Or an anxiety / confidence / psychological safety problem at work. There are ways to cope with or address all of these things, without feeling like the existence of gainful employment in your life is a problem.ย
Quit and get a new job. It’s not worth being unhappy. There are jobs out there that don’t make you feel like this.
I think it’s indicative of other aspects of our lives we aren’t too comfortable with
My work life would be consistent. Not the best, but pretty great. Yet depending on my mental health, the level of dread I would feel would persist.
When I had external stressful situations. It made facing the work week and pretending I’m not dealing with a tornado in my head was just a dreadful concept.
This made every little work stress seem so much worse then it was. And I get that some people genuinely have a horrible workpalce environment. This is more just my own perspective.
Like many others said. It’s almost never as bad as you think it is. So odds are most of this is just in our own heads and we may just be stressed out in other areas of our lives.
Yeah I just don’t show up
Do you drink much on the weekends? Could be hangover caused anxiety.
Yes โ even Sundays when I know Iโll have an easy Monday I for some reason get this unshakeable anxiety. I think itโs bc I live alone but love being around ppl and usually am all weekend; so once alone the panicking sets in
No. Never happens to me.
Every week for 30 years.
Sounds like youโve got a touch of the demand avoidance.
No
Nope, I LOVE Mondays
I have a knot in my throat like Iโm about to cry, to the point of feeling nauseous, for HOURS before work every day. I do burst into tears a few times during this period, but mostly just feel sick. And on days where I have to go in early? I canโt sleep the night before. Not like it takes me a few hours to fall asleep, I mean I will lay there for 8 hours feeling stressed and uncomfortable and angry that I canโt sleep.
Mondays for me are the absolute worst. Tired and complete lack of motivation for the first two hours of the morning