Managing Work-Related Anxiety and Sunday Dread
Jul 27, 2021
Miriam Christie
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- The Sunday Dread, the Sunday Scaries - different names for a phenomenon most of us will have experienced
- Counsellor Miriam Christie offers an anxiety-calming exercise to help you manage anxious work-related feelings
- We have therapists who specialise in working with anxiety, burnout and stress - find yours here
Monday morning blues are real. Research by Mind suggests 66% of us feel anxious at the thought of the working week ahead. The changes that Covid-19 has brought to our working world - no commute, working from home, furlough etc - haven't altered the sickening feeling that many of us feel creeping over us from Sunday evening.
Psychologists propose a number of reasons for this:
- Our brains are trained into a mode of weekend rest and week ahead anticipation
- Covid-19 adds an extra layer of mourning for our old structure
- Lack of the old structure brings new anxieties about what Monday may hold
Miriam Christie
Miriam Christie is a Welldoing counsellor
