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why are the weekends the worse.

Celticsoul
Celticsoul
I have really managed to keep on top of things lately. My job is going very well and I have even been promoted. But when I get home in the evenings I just want to crawl into bed and curl up and sleep. It is even worse at the weekends. It is like, once I take my foot off the peddle, my engine cuts out. I had the best of intentions this weekend, but I was so fatigued after a couple of hours working in my garden that I just conked out in bed in the late afternoon, and I am still here now. This is no life.
leeigh
leeigh
Don't know the reason or the solution but I recongnise the feeling.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I know what you mean. I think yoiu need to set yourself a goal for the weekend, like you might for your week. Something that you want or need to get done. Hopefully the goal will keep your mind creaatively occupied.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I am that way too, Sometimes, I force myself, I take vitamins, and feel slightly better, maybe is the whether or the atmosphere, but all I know is that it doesn't go away. Something I know though, The healing comes from inside.Maybe our soul is sick.
Thank you for the prayer .
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Mimi83
Mimi83
Sometimes your job takes everything out of you. If your constantly going and being a helper 24/7 than what do you think happens eventually? Your body says "ENOUGH...I need to chill out for a bit"
Here's a goal for you...this weekend don't plan on doing anything but making yourself some yummy dinner with desert and watching all your favorite movies or tv shows. Rent them this week or use Netflix. You obviously need some downtime. This is an order lol
soulnik
soulnik
I think weekend are harder because there's no routine. During the week you know you're going to go to work, put on your game face, do what has to get done. You fake it so you can make it. Even when you're at your worst, during the week you know you HAVE to at least keep afloat.

But on the weekends, you don't have to fake the funk. You don't have to go anywhere or do anything and the reality of what you try so hard to overcome all week just sits on top of you and weighs you down, beats you up, calls you names. And you've worked so hard all week staying on top of it, getting things done, being "on" that you don't have the energy to do anything about it.

So on the weekends, you're vulnerable and depression - the mean beastie - takes advantage. And all you can do to manage it is go to sleep.

Or at least that's what happens to me...I think.
Celticsoul
Celticsoul
Thanks for all your replies and advice, I really appreciate your support. So, I thought I would give some of your tips a try. I worked until 7.00 on Friday. I am a radio presenter and had to record programs for the bank holiday Monday. By the time I got home I was too jaded to do anything socially, so I tried to put a positive spin on it and decided to get an early night and start my weekend on Saturday. My weekend started around 2.00 pm when I woke up. I slept for 14 hours straight. Did I feel better for it? Not a chance. I just felt like rolling over and sleeping for 14 more. Last night I had arranged to go to a gig about 70 miles from where I live. I went. Bad idea :-( There were two and a half thousand people there and I couldn't have felt more alone. I got home around two, and here I am now, 12.30 and I need to salvage this day.