The Sunday Scaries Are Coming to Get You

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It’s Sunday evening and you’re bundled up in bed. You should feel comfortable and refreshed after your weekend, but you just don’t.

Your eyes are wide. Your heart is racing. In a mere few hours, you will thrust yourself out of bed, travel to work and face the dreaded Monday grind.

The thought terrifies you. You close your eyes and cover your face with the blankets, but the prospect of Monday still encroaches.

Have you ever found yourself in this scenario? You, my friend, may have a case of the Sunday Scaries.

What Are the Sunday Scaries?

A silly name for a not-so-silly ailment.

Sunday Scaries are “” Instead of relishing the last day of their weekend, workers experience “a pit in the bottom of their stomach” and a sense of dread that “haunts them throughout the day.”

The Scaries can affect anyone with a big Monday ahead, from students to employees. Even if there’s no big presentation tomorrow (though that would spike anxiety levels) the Scaries persist.

Victims of the Scaries go out on Friday night, relax on Saturday (the blessed in-between day) and then spend all of Sunday feeling like their freedom is…