Sunday Depression

Back in the 70's when people had value I was learning to be a psychologist.  I was one of those people (not "folks") who got into psychology in part because of my own emotional turmoil.


Back then we learned about "Sunday depression".  Sadly, we were way off the mark with the presumed roots of this "syndrome".  We white upwardly mobile young adults were all into self-actualizing and other such nonsense.  So we subscribed to the idea that this Sunday afternoon depression was caused by angst over all that we had not actualized, i.e. done.


But why not get depressed over not feeling actualized on a Saturday afternoon?  Or even Sunday morning?


I've noticed that if I have a three day weekend, or two days off in the middle of the week, that depression is going to hit the afternoon before I go back to work.


Much like the agoraphobia that has as its root the need to escape, that depression that happens when you're at home has to do with heading back to the workplace to start all the things you hate all over again.


And there is no solution.  At least not now, and especially not here in South Carolina.  We're going to continue to get squeezed and stressed for quite some time.  So eat, drink and be merry, because in five (or six) days you'll have another day off, in which to get depressed about having to go back to work again.