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Sunday scaries

1. Anxiety felt on Sunday evenings by people who have to return to work on Monday morning, about the weekend (and free time) being over and the pressures of the workweek resuming.
   • 2019 January 15, Richard Guare, Colin Guare, Peg Dawson, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled, Guilford Publications, →ISBN, page 204:

     VON: Sunday scaries is that feeling when the weekend's over, Monday's coming, you got stuff due, but you try to ignore it, you just sit there. / SARAH: (Laughs.) Yeah, thanks, Von. Sarah thinks . . . Von's right, Sunday scaries.

   • 2019 April 9, Julia Dellitt, Get Your Life Together(ish): A No-Pressure Guide for Real-Life Self-Growth, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 24:

     ... with a heavy dose of rest, and Mondays consequently shifted to “do the bare minimum” days. As a result, I no longer experienced the so-called Sunday scaries on a regular basis. I looked forward to the week ahead with minimal stress.

   • 2019 September 24, Clay Scroggins, How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 184:

     I had a friend who suffered from what she called the Sunday scaries. Maybe you can relate. The Sunday scaries are when you get to Sunday evening and start to realize that the weekend is over and you're about to go back to work.

   • 2020 July 20, Marissa Finn, Golden Shit: The Biggest Mistakes I Made Starting My Business and What I Learned, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     He enjoys it because it helps him combat the “Sunday Scaries”—that feeling on Sunday night when the anxiety and anticipation about the week ahead overpower your ability to be a normal human. I used to work every single Sunday night […]

   • 2020 December 8, Lauren Martin, The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:

     During this particularly difficult bout of Sunday Scaries, I wondered if I could apply that same technique—to use the nerves of Sunday to remind myself that nothing was actually wrong, but just butterflies about the week ahead.

   • 2022 September 27, Ryan M. Panzer, The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation, Fortress Press, →ISBN:

     Seventy-six percent of us report feeling the “Sunday Scaries” or “Sunday Night Blues,” a feeling of anticipatory stress that leads to the constant checking of email, messages, and calendars in an oftenfutile attempt to alleviate the […]

   • 2022 December 6, Jen DeLuca, Well Traveled, Penguin, →ISBN, page 62:

     But when I did, I fell victim to a phenomenon called the "Sunday scaries." Wherein a perfectly good Sunday was wasted by that sense of impending doom because Monday was right around the corner. When things were especially bad […]