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No getting over it

Have you got the Sunday Fear right now?

TOMORROW IS MONDAY.

IT HAS MANY names. Some call it the ‘Sunday Scaries’. Others the ‘Weirds’, the ‘Sunday Blues’ or ‘Sunday Spookies’.

Most people, though, know it as The Fear.

It is an acute anxiety that creeps up on us as we begin to transition from the weekend to the reality of the impending work-week. You’ve probably started to feel it by now.

Although there is no clinical diagnosis for The Fear, it does have a term to describe it:

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It is an acute anxiety when we being to transition from unstructured time to structured time. According to psychologists, there are symptoms:

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Business Insider has taken a look for some of the ways to overcome the condition. Although, we might be too late with some of these tips…. For example:

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And….

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Exhaust you body so you’ll go to be at a decent hour…

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Or get yourself ahead…

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Call up some friends to make Monday plans. Leave the errands until Tuesday night.

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For the full video, click here.

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