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The Sunday Scaries: Why Dread Creeps In Every Sunday Afternoon
It's not really about Monday. It's anticipation running way ahead of anything that's actually happened yet.
By 4pm Sunday, before a single work email has landed, something in your chest already knows Monday's coming.
It's not really about Monday. It's anticipation running way ahead of anything that's actually happened yet, working itself into a full response over a day that hasn't even started.
Usually the size of the dread says more about what's waiting at work than the actual difficulty of the tasks, an unresolved conflict, a role that doesn't fit anymore, work that stopped meaning anything a while ago.
More self-care on Sunday doesn't touch it, because the feeling was never really about Sunday. It's a weekly reminder pointing at something that needs to change somewhere else.
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