Sad on a Sunday night?

[tral]

Is it just the law that around this time on a Sunday night you feel an overwhelming sadness and almost nostalgic feeling? Can't just be me surely?

[Breakingpoint1961]

I didn't realise this was a thing..I've suffered with this since I was young..like a PP said, it meant school the next day, I reckon that's the psychology behind it.

[Beetlekiwi]

For me it’s the heartbeat theme tune - fills me with dread!

[Lovebeingamummy2]

@SucculentSunshine me too and all these years I've always thought it was just me who felt like this

[coldcaff]

Yep. The evening seems to fly by, I end up rushing to get uniforms and lunchboxes sorted.

I remember it as a child too! I always enjoyed school but still had that sinking feeling of knowing the weekend was over and I was going back to school the next day.

[NotMyDust]

I and DH - and one of our dc have this too, agree with wine making it worse! guess its when there's a massive gap between the quality of your leisure time and your work time and/or you hate your job...
I also get insomnia too on Sunday nights which is far from helpful.

I have found yoga and meditation have helped with this.

[bellac11]

Its anticipatory anxiety, it doesnt necessarily mean you dont like the thing thats coming.

[FruHagen]

I think it definitely does mean you don't like the thing that is about to happen.

I don't have it anymore as I work for myself and like what I do. I make my own choices and decisions so Sunday night is just a nice evening now like every other.

I did have the Sunday blues very badly as a child and felt sick and sad, I had it into my working life also, especially when I hated my job but had no choice but to do it. I hate the Antiques Roadshow theme tune.

Sorry for all who feel it, it's a terrible feeling. Hope you get to enjoy beautiful Sunday evenings in your future.

[CosmopolitanPlease]

It started for me as a child, and it's Last of the Summer Wine and homework, dread and melancholy and lying awake unable to sleep with no tv, no radio, podcasts etc to distract me

I've been retired for ten years but I still get it, to a lesser extent.

[bellac11]

No, anticipatory anxiety doesnt necessarily mean you dont like the thing thats coming up. People often get it before holidays, trips out, events, etc.

[FruHagen]

@bellac11 I used to feel really sad though, not anxious (I still get that), really properly sad. Like everything was just grim and I was trapped.

Do you think it's the same thing?

[MargaretThursday]

It was during lockdown that I realised how much ds overreacted badly on Sunday night due to going back to school blues.

[Nowhereelsetogo90]

Sunday scaries! I’m a teacher and that Sunday feeling is well known in our staff room.

[bellac11]

@FruHagen

@bellac11 I used to feel really sad though, not anxious (I still get that), really properly sad. Like everything was just grim and I was trapped.

Do you think it's the same thing?

Well anxiety can manifest in a number of different emotional and physical sensations, it depends whether you did or didnt like the thing that was coming up

I was just correcting your point that you said its 'definitely' indicative of not liking the thing coming up, but that is not necessarily the case

[ARoyalSubject]

I wouldn't say nostalgic, but yes to an overwhelming sadness - relating entirely to the prospect of another exhausting week at work (when the entire household has spent all weekend doing homework, unpaid overtime, housework or errands for other people). Feel like none is us have a life outside of work at the moment.

[CandyLeBonBon]

Feeling it too

[cherrypiepie]

I get this too. Nostalgic is accurate way to describe it but in a not rose tinted spectacles way. Fear the antiques roadshow, Countryfile and the farmers forecast and also heartbeat.

It's different to the anxiety before holidays and so on.

It's almost a meloncholy. It worse in the autumn for me.

It I stopped working Mondays and it did go. And it didn't transfer to Monday night blues. So weird. Do think it related to childhood experiences and mine was quite stressful.

[ChickenBurgers]

I hate Sundays, always have. They’re so grim. I’m on maternity so dont even have work tomorrow and I still dread Sundays.

[Libre2]

Yep. DS has just had the most monumental melt down over homework that he didn’t realise was due in tomorrow and has got himself in a total palaver about it. He hates Sunday evenings and therefore as a result we all hate Sunday evenings. I wish we home schooled. He’s 13 and hates school. DD not so much. She deals with life with more equilibrium.

I read DS some of this thread - I think it helped a tiny bit.

[MuffinFeatures]

Antiques Roadshow for me too! Makes me think sandwiches, home made Victoria sponge, and an absolute dread of school! Feels worse when it gets darker earlier.

[bellac11]

@cherrypiepie

I get this too. Nostalgic is accurate way to describe it but in a not rose tinted spectacles way. Fear the antiques roadshow, Countryfile and the farmers forecast and also heartbeat.

It's different to the anxiety before holidays and so on.

It's almost a meloncholy. It worse in the autumn for me.

It I stopped working Mondays and it did go. And it didn't transfer to Monday night blues. So weird. Do think it related to childhood experiences and mine was quite stressful.

Totally worse in the autumn, in fact the smell of autumn gives me this feeling, sort of excited, sort of sad, sort of dreading. Its going back to school after the holidays, new uniform and shoes very exciting,, new books and seeing school friends and teachers, exciting, but the fear of the unknown, will I like the lessons or be able to do them in the next year up,,, lots of worry. New clean exercise books, exciting.

[WickedSerious]

I hate it,reminds me of being in school and dreading Monday morning.

[Mischance]

Yup here ... just been doing a zoom quiz with friends and the music rounds were full of music that reminds me of when DH (now dead) and I first met. It is breaking me up.

[Bluey124]

Totally get it. I'm the same. Sundays are horrible.

[Sundayisworst]

Absolutely. Hence my username. I’ve felt it since childhood and it’s a horrible dread and depression feeling.

[AngelinaFibres]

It's called 'The teatime of the soul".
I hated Sunday nights. Once we took early retirement they disappeared. Used to feel physically sick at the thought of going to school, as a child and then as a teacher.