So the "Sunday Scaries" are real - where you dread going into your toxic job on Monday. Diet and genetics are big contributors to the blockages forming, and the stress sets it off. I had mine (which lead to a double bypass) on a Sunday morning. My job, at the time, was very high stress and I started dreaded going in every Sunday. I could feel panic attacks welling up on Sundays quite often. This is absolutely just opinion, but talking to some other people that were in the hospital with me, it sounded like I definitely wasn't alone in this life experience.
Victor Frankl said in Man’s Search for Meaning:
> Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
So it wasn’t so much about dreading the coming week but being still from the previous week and being sad about what they actually accomplished (or didn’t).
I have read it, and yes, this is true...but I actually had a boss that would just demean you in front of anyone and every so often threw a chair, so my stress was coming from multiple fronts.
Damn, I need to reread that book. I'm struggling with that now; I just retired at 40 and am looking for meaning in my life with that exact issue popping up.
It was the first time I remembered someone describing the small depression one experiences after accomplishing a goal and it was funny because wasn’t something I remember hearing about from others. Mentally, I called if “post-summit malaise.”
I suppose it’s a nice problem to have but still uncomfortable. Congratulations on your retirement and hope you get to figure it out and find a new mountain to climb.
