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Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 3

The first part of the series, revealed how stressing about Monday can affect your health. The next part, I revealed some tips to help you get through Sunday evening and Monday morning. Now we will discuss how to view things from a higher perspective.

How to view things from a higher perspective
1. Your experience will help others: Maybe you can help a friend, relative, etc. who can learn from the way you handled the situation
2. What can you learn from this: Maybe you are doing things that are causing people to act in a negative fashion to you? Maybe some co-workers do treat you unfairly, but how can you learn and grow from this situation.
3. I try to remind myself that the situation could be worse: Some people are going through worse things in their lives. Each morning and night, count your blessings and things you are thankful for.

Related Links
Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 1
Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 2

Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 2

During the first part of my Weekend depression series, we learned how stressing about Monday mornings can affect your health. As promised, I listed some tips I used to help me change my outlook. These tips help you deal with Weekend Depression that can lead to Monday blues.

Tips on how to cope with the Weekend depression
1. Read something positive, uplifting and inspiring
2. Have an outlet. Do something you enjoy: take a dance class, pottery, fishing, etc.
3. Do something relaxing: Walk around a park, visit an art museum, get a massage, etc.
4. Visit a place of worship
5. Hang out with friends and family
6. Do volunteer work
7. On Mondays, change your alarm from a buzzer to music. I found that this helps prevent my heart and pulse from racing.

In my next series, I will reveal some tips to help you view things from a higher perspective.

Related Links
Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 1
Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 3

Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 1

If you are like me, then you live for the weekends. But, I usually hate to see Sunday evening come, because that means I have to go to work the next day. There was a time, just recently, when my whole attitude and demeanor would change late Sunday afternoon into the evening. I did not want to be bothered or talk to anyone; I would just read or watch TV to escape the reality that awaited me on Monday.

Then Monday morning would arrive. I would wake up and my heart and pulse would race. If I just came out of a long weekend or vacation, there were some Mondays that I literally cried because I dreaded going to work. I remember several times driving to work with tears streaming down my face and wanting to turn the car around and call in sick. This would go on week after week. I realized that this can not be good for my health. To support my statement, the European Journal of Epidemiology stated the risk for heart attacks among men is 20% greater on Mondays and 15% greater for women. Then one Sunday at church, I heard a message about how “Changing your position, will change your viewpoint.” When I heard this message, it really started to click for me. It was like a fire was rekindled in my stomach. So I decided to make an effort to change my outlook concerning my situation. I decided not to let my job control whether or not I would be happy. What was weird, it seemed like things got worse on the job, but instead of getting depressed, I dealt with it, tried to learn from the situation and move on. It felt much more empowering. Now, I am not saying that I love Mondays and my job, all I am saying is I decided to look at the bigger picture, see what I can learn from it and in the process help others learn from my situation. I still get frustrated and angry, but I do not wallow in it anymore. I experience the moment, but I let it pass.

This discussion will continue next week, when I reveal some tips that helped me cope with the Sunday evening blues.

Related Links:
Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 2
Weekend Depression, Leads to Monday Blues: Part 3