Is it just me, or do Saturday mornings always seem so calm, relaxing and pleasant?
Is it just me, or do Sunday nights always seem gloomy, or like a calm before the storm?
Does anyone else feel this way? How do you deal with Sunday night/Monday morning blues?
One thing I like to do on Sunday evenings is to watch/read a thriller/horror/sci-fi kind of movie/book to completely take my mind off the upcoming stressful week!
Enjoy your weekend everyone, while it lasts! I guess I'm overdue for a vacation! 
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Originally posted by jughead
Is it just me, or do Sunday nights always seem gloomy, or like a calm before the storm?
Does anyone else feel this way? How do you deal with Sunday night/Monday morning blues?
One thing I like to do on Sunday evenings is to watch/read a thriller/horror/sci-fi kind of movie/book to completely take my mind off the upcoming stressful week!
Enjoy your weekend everyone, while it lasts! I guess I'm overdue for a vacation!
Great minds think and feel alike
Jokes apart, I feel the same way on Sunday evening/Monday morning. Worst part is there is almost nothing watchable on TV during weekend evenings. So thrillers are the only way to get rid of those sunday evening blues.
Meghal
Location: God's own country
Posted on: 13-05-06 14:03:21
My experiences were the same too.
This is esp. true when your job is a high tension job or when you enojy to the max. weekends.
In my case, when ever the weekends were free, i always had a mistake to tell the client or boss on monday morning and so i dreaded mondays. I would be fine on saturday but from sunday afternnon, i would dread monday when i would have to admit my faults. OTOH, From wednesday, i would be expecting friday evening (if i know that my weekends would be free).
People who are an exception to this are people who do 9-5 jobs 5 days a week and their job is pretty much mechanical with no avenue for mistakes. Examples would be CSR jobs, Brokering, Engineering (with some exceptions) , Factory jobs (in any level) etc....
The second part of your question as to how i deal with it :
This is how i dealt with it (during times when my weekends were free)->
1. Worked late on Friday (doing part of Mondays work) so that i just relax/ browse in the office on monday mornings.
2. Did all my Laundry/shopping/ roaming garage sales on Saturday instead of putting it to Sunday. If done on Sunday, you could sleep late , tired and this will make your work week a hell.
3. Sunday was just relaxing/ enjoying scenery/ eating out etc... If you treat sunday casually then it would not affect your monday mornings.
But the most important thing is to get a job/ environment where there will be no tension at all in your work/ decisions etc.... From my experience, i have found out that if a office is full of tension, you will never enjoy your weekends even if there is a 3 day holiday straight.
Just my views. Not generalised.
TK
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Same here.
Once the Sunday evening lights are on, my mood goes down. What I do is have some nice food & watch entertaining, mostly comedy show or movie & go to bed a little early than usual, so that at least you don't get Monday morning blues.
But I am sure the 'sunday evening & Monday morning blues' is experienced by almost everyone & not only by the people who have stressful jobs . It is human nature to run away from compulsory things.
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Originally posted by jughead
Is it just me, or do Saturday mornings always seem so calm, relaxing and pleasant?
Is it just me, or do Sunday nights always seem gloomy, or like a calm before the storm?
Does anyone else feel this way? How do you deal with Sunday night/Monday morning blues?
One thing I like to do on Sunday evenings is to watch/read a thriller/horror/sci-fi kind of movie/book to completely take my mind off the upcoming stressful week!
Enjoy your weekend everyone, while it lasts! I guess I'm overdue for a vacation!
Location: Alaska & The Yukon
Posted on: 18-05-06 02:51:07
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Originally posted by soon-2-b-R2I
Same here.
Hi Guys,
What we are discussing is a proven fact. In our stressful city living, traffic snarls ( worst on mondays ), piled up mails, files etc, this is what happens.............................................
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4223103.stm
The stress of returning to work on a Monday morning can trigger a dangerous increase in blood pressure, according to a study.
The Tokyo Women's Medical University study shows blood pressure readings are higher than at any other time of the week.
It may explain why deaths from heart attacks and strokes tend to peak on a Monday morning.
There are 20% more heart attacks on Mondays than on any other day.
If somebody already has cardiovascular disease then it might just tip them over the edge and trigger a heart attack
Professor Keith Fox, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Heart disease is Britain's biggest killer. Around 270,000 people suffer a heart attack every year and nearly one in three die before they even reach hospital.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects one in five people in the UK and is a major risk factor for heart disease. The higher it climbs, the greater the force exerted by blood on the walls of the arteries when the heart beats.
In some patients, it's possible to get blood pressure readings down by switching to a healthier lifestyle. But hundreds of thousands more need a daily quota of pills to control it.
Measuring blood pressure can be difficult because it can vary from one day to the next.
'Late nights and lie-ins'
To see how it changed over the course of a week, researchers from Tokyo Women's Medical University in Japan, fitted 175 men and women with a device that would measure their blood pressure round-the-clock.
A week later the recruits returned the devices so that researchers could assess how blood pressure had changed.
The results, published in the American Journal of Hypertension, showed a surge in readings in those getting ready to go back to work on a Monday morning.
The constraints of this study mean we cannot be sure of the causes of this variation
Belinda Linden, British Heart Foundation
Volunteers who stayed asleep did not experience an increase, which suggests work-related stress is most likely to blame.
"Most people are free of the mental and physical burdens of work on a Sunday and experience a more stressful change from weekend leisure activities to work activities on Mondays," said Dr Shuogo Murakami, who led the research.
"There was a distinct peak on Mondays in this study."
Professor Keith Fox, from the cardiovascular research unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, told BBC Online an early morning rise in blood pressure is probably a normal part of the body's 24-hour rhythm and unlikely to be a problem for healthy people.
But he said: "If somebody already has cardiovascular disease then it might just tip them over the edge and trigger a heart attack.
He added that the return to early waking hours on a Monday morning, after a weekend of late nights and lie-ins, could explain the blood pressure surge.
"The increased risk of cardiac events in the early morning, such as heart attacks or strokes, is well-established."
'Morning peak'
Belinda Linden, Head of Medical Information at the British Heart Foundation, said: "Weekly variations in the incidence of heart attacks and strokes, and in death rates, have been observed by various researchers over the last decade, who have found that Monday is the most likely day these events have occurred.
"A morning peak in blood pressure has also been noted by researchers in recent years."
But she added: "This relatively small study looks at the weekly variations of blood pressure, and has found that Monday morning provides the highest peak.
"Although it is tempting to try and explain these findings, and to assume that the return to work is a factor, the constraints of this study mean we cannot be sure of the causes of this variation.
"The BHF believes it is important to try to understand any potential influences of peaks in blood pressure, but larger and better controlled studies are needed to help us do so."
Once the Sunday evening lights are on, my mood goes down. What I do is have some nice food & watch entertaining, mostly comedy show or movie & go to bed a little early than usual, so that at least you don't get Monday morning blues.
But I am sure the 'sunday evening & Monday morning blues' is experienced by almost everyone & not only by the people who have stressful jobs . It is human nature to run away from compulsory things.
Quote:
Originally posted by jughead
Is it just me, or do Saturday mornings always seem so calm, relaxing and pleasant?
Is it just me, or do Sunday nights always seem gloomy, or like a calm before the storm?
Does anyone else feel this way? How do you deal with Sunday night/Monday morning blues?
One thing I like to do on Sunday evenings is to watch/read a thriller/horror/sci-fi kind of movie/book to completely take my mind off the upcoming stressful week!
Enjoy your weekend everyone, while it lasts! I guess I'm overdue for a vacation!
