I highly recommend Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. CBT is the best medicine I can afford, because all you need is pen and paper.

If you don't think you can change your circumstance, then you can try to change how you react to it. The core model of the therapy is to analyze your thoughts and look for patterns in which your brain tries to fuck with you. Identifying distortions and fallacies helps to replace your automatic thoughts with more positive ones.

Example:

Thought: I hate my job, everything about it sucks

Distortions: Overgeneralization, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Feelings as Facts

New Thought: I hate certain parts of my job, but I like X part of it

The whole thing only works if you believe in it, and the important thing is that you're not just putting a sunny face on things that make you feel terrible. You're working to restructure your thought based on objective truth.

I've struggled for a long time with the Sunday Scaries. Sometimes it feels like it's never going to get easier, and I'm going through it right now, but I know if I take the time to untangle my feelings then things end up easier in the long run.

Good luck out there, partner

I disassociate entirely. I'm sure there will be no long term consequences to this...

IME hardest part is getting up and getting out the door. After that things usually aren't so bad.

I also give myself things to look forward to, reward myself.

I remember reading somewhere that one of the possible reasons for that feeling might be because of the change in times.

As in, when we go to work, we usually have to wake up early and then have our routine during the rest of the day. But on holidays/during the weekend, we tend not to follow any schedules. And then after getting used to waking up whenever we want (or later than usual), we get cranky because our body is (forced to get) used to our working schedule.

So a solution might be go to bed at times that aren't too different from your usual times during your working days.

Basically, some consistency with your sleep might help.

And please don't tell me "just change jobs".

Fair. Can I then suggest a social and political revolution to change the current system in which we have to waste our lives working for rich fucks who don't care about us?

I try to remember the little things I like about going to work. Drinking the good coffee I keep there. Chatting with people in the office. Driving home through the summer weather at the end of the day.

Work so hard on the weekend you're glad to go back to a job on Monday

Having a fulfilling weekend helps. The weekends where I sit and rot are where I get to Sunday night and feel like "oh shit I don't want to go to work I didn't enjoy my weekend".

But weekends where I've worked on projects, hung out with family and friends, gamed, maybe done some chores or just got out the house help lessen the blow. It also helps that I don't really sleep in much these days, like I'll usually get up at 9:30 or 10 and those couple hours instead of getting up at noon help make the day feel more worthwhile.

Doing all that usually has me tired enough going to sleep rather than doom scrolling or brain rotting. Which in turn leads to a gentler time waking up Monday.

And then on Monday itself I kinda ride the high of having a good weekend and that I can push through 8 hours to get back home and continue some of those activities

I like my job

Your job change, you should. 🙂

Joke aside, depends what is the issue here:

1. Are you unsatisfied with your job or
2. You enjoy/value your free so much.

As others have mentioned, find something to look forward to. If you're miserable at your job, see what you can do to change that. Any small wins you can look forward to?

If you're in a position "do I really need to do this for the next 30-40 years", that's a more difficult thing to resolve. We've set up a system for ourselves where that is the only possibility of surviving in this world. To change that you'd need to move somewhere to the highlands of Scotland or a tropical island somewhere and live completely off the grid. Unfortunately, though, that life is not easy.

Your best bet is to be born rich. Other than that, friends help. Having a support net and something to do that brings you joy makes this a tiny bit more bearable. Go read books. Go to the park. Sign up for dancing lessons or martial arts. Learn a new language. Travel. World is so much more than what we see on TV.

quit job

You find out, let us know.

Drugs

Have you considered a life of crime?

Start a masters thesis. Work feels like a nice break from it.

Start your own business

It's just that, but every single day

Then you get to send invoices which is like Christmas

That's the good part, you don't.

Simple, I work 7 days a week

Drugs

Thinking about dieing is like a light at the end of this sewer tunnel.

Drugs, or you know, getting a job you don't hate with ever fiber in your body

Avoiding the Monday feel is one of the two benefits of a dynamic schedule. The other is running errands, like going to the laundromat or doing grocery shopping, on a weekday.