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Do you get the Sunday scaries? What an odd phenomenon

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strawberryjeans · 02/04/2023 19:50

I used to get it all the time and it definitely happens to me less now that I am in a job I love, but I get a really strange feeling on Sunday nights almost like dread of the end of the weekend. It’s hard to put it into words exactly, maybe somebody else who gets it can do a better job than I have. Sets in around 3/4pm if I’m going to get it and sometimes find myself unable to fall asleep no matter how tired when I don’t have that problem any other night of the week.

It’s absolutely fine by Monday morning, in fact I don’t even mind Mondays quite enjoy getting back to being busy. Weird

YABU - I don’t experience this

YANBU - I do, fairly regularly and ikwym

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Bbq1 · 02/04/2023 23:24

CandleInTheStorm · 02/04/2023 20:46

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I don't! I really like my job.

CountingMareep · 02/04/2023 23:26

My DM used to work on Sunday evenings when I was little, and I still remember the boiled-egg-and-toast teas my DF used to make, and the cloud that descended over my mood.

The ‘I haven’t done my homework’ feeling I can also relate to - not just homework, but cookery ingredients, PE kit, a million different paper slips about everything from the PTA meeting to the latest uniform change. Which you might get sanctioned for if you didn’t return on time. It was almost as bad being the parent (although email made everything a lot easier).

Defender90 · 02/04/2023 23:28

I used to in my last job, but like you OP I'm in a job I love now so I don't.

It was horrible. Knowing as you lay there trying to sleep what fresh hell awaited you.

pasbeaucoupdegendarme · 02/04/2023 23:28

Was miserable in my job and definitely got this. Sunday night tv theme tunes - Lark Rise to Candleford, Call the Midwife and Poldark are all really tummy churning for me!

Mind you I remember feeling the same with the music to Birds of a Feather when I was a child.

I don’t get it weekly now but my ds does, and I definitely feel it the night before the kids go back to school after the holidays. I hate that almost more than they do.

KimberleyClark · 02/04/2023 23:42

I certainly used to, both when I was at school and when I was in jobs I hated. One job in particular, Friday nights I’d be almost hysterical with relief that I’d made it through another week, but then come Sunday the blues would set in in the afternoon. I’m retired now though and Sunday evenings are bliss!

Ilovetocrochet · 02/04/2023 23:55

amillionrosepetals · 02/04/2023 20:22

I used to feel that way when I was working. I just didn't like having to go to work. It usually set in at about 6pm, that's when it stopped being the weekend and became just another night before a working day. Now that I'm retired I find I spend Sunday evening thinking thank goodness I don't have to go to work anymore.

Totally agree! Sundayitis used to be an issue when I was trying to get to sleep on a Sunday night knowing my alarm was going to ring at 5.45 am! My brain would spin thinking about all the outstanding jobs I had to do in the morning and I found it helpful ( a bit) if I had a note book by my bed to jot things down that were really worrying me.

As a teacher and a single mum of three teenagers, I used to do family/household stuff on Saturday then do lesson planning and marking on a Sunday so my brain was fizzing by the time I went to bed!

Once retired. I now look in my diary on a Sunday to see what I am doing in the week ahead and plan my essential jobs around my leisure activities. I live snuggling down in my duvet at 6 am knowing that I don’t need to get up and start the week. I loved my job but even so, Monday morning was a killer!

Newestname002 · 03/04/2023 00:11

I used to get the Sunday scaries - hated the idea of having to commute into my office to start another week in a job I did just to make a living. However, at some point I only worked four days, taking Mondays off (and making myself unavailable for anything work-related), plus worked from home on Fridays which was a much better balance for me. Retired now and don't miss anything about working- except my salary! 🌹

DiscoBeat · 03/04/2023 00:24

I had that when I was working. A sort of panic that I wasn't quite ready/planned for the week ahead (it was always fine once there). I don't have that now, but I only have to think about getting the children to school. They're in their teens now so it's easier, too. I do know the feeling you describe though.

FeliciteFaff · 03/04/2023 00:32

God I thought it was just me. That depression setting in 5pm Sunday. And then my mum or dad mentioning the word school or work. Still pisses me off.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 03/04/2023 00:35

EggbertHeartsTina · 02/04/2023 20:07

Yeah and the Antiques Roadshow theme tune brings it on! Definitely a hangover from when I was a child.

Same!!

PleaseStopSayingHuBbY · 03/04/2023 00:37

It's called The Sunday Feeling in our house. Mostly irrational and unwarranted but very overwhelming 😔

headache · 03/04/2023 00:41

Oh yes definitely
I’m a teacher so Sunday spent doing lesson planning I hate it

PollyThePixie · 03/04/2023 03:09

yes. I experienced it as a child due to hating school because of being bullied. It was awful. It would start about 4pm and by the time the top 20 had finished on the radio I felt sick to my stomach n

PollyThePixie · 03/04/2023 03:12

maddiemookins16mum · 02/04/2023 21:31

Just mentioned the Sunday blues to DMIL, she said it was always ‘Sing Something Simple’ that gave her the jitters for the next day 50 odd years ago (she was a District Nurse).

Yes! It was panic inducing.

DinosApple · 03/04/2023 03:13

Yes to Antiques Roadshow Anxiety!
Brings back memories of doing homework late on a Sunday night, or Monday morning Maths. (I quite enjoy the AR though.)

Belledan1 · 03/04/2023 03:36

Not as bad now I work hybrid but the last couple of weeks had to go in the office on a Monday and really made a difference to how I felt on a Sunday night.

Toomanysquishmallows · 03/04/2023 04:28

I absolutely loathe Sundays ! For me miss marple and Bergerac meant the weekend was done .

emptythelitterbox · 03/04/2023 04:35

I used to when I used to work in jobs I hated.
Ended up with full blown panic attacks on the way to work at a couple of the hell holes I used to work at.

I run my own company and my employees are all remote, so none of them ever have to feel that dread of having to get up and deal with a long commute.

America12 · 03/04/2023 05:07

EggbertHeartsTina · 02/04/2023 20:07

Yeah and the Antiques Roadshow theme tune brings it on! Definitely a hangover from when I was a child.

Came to say exactly the same. Also a left over feeling of not having done my homework.

coffeemoon · 03/04/2023 05:08

It's sad that 88% of people have responded that they also get this.

I get it as well, and I have average feelings about my job, I don't love or hate it, but I guess the weekend is nicer! My husband gets it too so Sunday evenings can be a bit gloomy.

Not much to add, just that it's a shame so many people are in jobs that don't enthuse them.

KimberleyClark · 03/04/2023 10:29

The TV theme music that brings back the teen years Sundayitis for me is The Brothers (the first BBC soap). My parents and I used to watch it together. It’s a great theme (of the “they don’t write them like that anymore” variety) and I still occasionally listen to it on YouTube but it does bring back very poignant memories of my late parents as well as the “the weekend’s over” feeling.

BrassicaBabe · 03/04/2023 22:34

I hate to think that my kids might already be feeling like this about school. Is there anything I can do as a parent to prevent or alleviate this you think?

RuperttheBearHug · 03/04/2023 22:41

Weirdly, I work compressed full time hours Tues-Fri and don’t get Monday eve jitters. Always found it strange. I think the Sunday thing was always because the weekend isn’t quite enough time to decompress.

MobilityCat · 03/04/2023 23:19

Summed up in Sunday morning coming down by Kris Kristoffen

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