PA1: Well, that's true. For me, Friday is the most productive day. If lucky, you might find yourself quietly enjoying the company of a beautifully crafted liquor. While anxiety and frustration starts building around Saturday evening, it peaks around Sunday evening (even more than one would experience on a Monday). I am desperately looking out for options beyond T1; any inhouse that pays even 60% would be good.

To everyone suffering from this, been there - it gets better with consistent efforts. While I will not pretend to understand your individual hardships, I will set down what has worked in the past for me: (i) The more you can control your weekend drinking, the less overwhelming the Monxiety is going to be; (ii) Scheduling a game of pickleball, badminton, football or whatever works for you around the 8pm - 9pm mark helps. Releasing endorphins naturally is a great way to let the anxiety be less controlling - basically sweat it out; (iii) The toughest, if you have work for Sunday, try to get done with it by 6pm-ish so that you can have your authority over the 6pm-12am slot; (iv) If you can sleep early and have an activity (Gyming, yoga or reading) for the next morning, that is pretty useful too.

What sucks is the lack of autonomy over our time and not the work itself. I hope these things are helpful, or your find your own which help. Principally, try natural methods to bring down your baseline anxiety on a Sunday - can be achieved by sports, exercising, waking up early, sleeping on time etc (only so that you can claim back more of your time).

Idk about a partner, but I’m an A0 at a T1 and I have so much anxiety on Sunday evenings that I end up breaking down and bawling every single time. I really don’t know what will help me overcome this, I’m not ready to give up on this yet. Sunday night scaries are soo soo real, I really wish I didn’t resent my job so much that I had to go shit faced to office every Monday.