The Sunday Scaries Are Real And Here's How To Beat Them

Have you ever felt a disconcerting knot in the pit of your stomach by the time it's Sunday afternoon? Perhaps a wave of sweat or mild headache? Well, you aren't alone. In fact, you're one of the many individuals who suffer from something that's commonly known as the 'Sunday scaries'.

No matter how much you love your job, enjoy your career or spending time in school, the Sunday scaries can appear nonetheless. It is often characterised by both physical and psychological symptoms like anxiety, nervousness, over-thinking, headaches and even nausea. It's something similar to the Monday blues however, occurs before the sun even goes down on Sunday. If you've even felt any of these feelings mildly, you aren't alone. Fortunately, the Sunday scaries needn't be an occurrence every weekend. Here are 3 ways to reduce the scaries and make the work week begin on Monday morning, not Sunday afternoon.

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1. One Day At A Time

Stop pushing all your plans and activities for the weekend. If you do, you'll go into the week with the hopes of getting through it rapidly rather than enjoying each day. Instead of making all your plans on Fridays and Saturdays, plan for Mondays and Wednesday too. Adding excitement to the first half of the week will make you look forward to it.

2. Keep Sunday Calm

In fear of the weekend quickly coming to an end, don't pack it choc-o-block with activities. That will make it feel like you've sped through the day and you'll be exhausted by Sunday night. What you can do is make the latter half of Sundays one for yourself. Spend some me-time by mediating, exercising, treating yourself to a spa session and movie night. You will be pacing through your day and by night, you'll be peaceful and rested.

3. Stay Off Social Media

Schedule Sunday to be spent with conversation, hobbies and activities, not on social media. The second you begin scrolling through Instagram and Twitter, you'll be sucked into a black hole of constantly refreshing the page. Before you know it, a large chunk of your day is gone and there's nothing you can do about it.

From this weekend on, try these tips and the end of Sunday won't feel so bad after all.