Sometimes each finds a state of boredom, the mood is deteriorating, you do not want to act and to do something. It is interesting that most often it attacks the person in weekends and public holidays, when it is not distracting pressure of work, constant interaction with other people, bright events. This is the "Sunday syndrome".
Imagine a young man, the soul of the company! Coming to work, he personally welcomes each and all respond to his greetings and smile. No dance in the team fails without him. On Friday evening he calls to all in the bar, where everyone knows him and friends with him. Each week it appears there with a new girl, one more beautiful than the other. Why would he marry? It's boring and doesn't fit his bright plans for the future. If you ask my colleagues, what is this young man, the first of the associations pop up of the definition of "active", "energetic", "cheerful". And here come the may holidays. And we see this young man lying on the couch in an empty apartment, which looks at one point. Background is the TV. Phone delayed away, and the young man received not one phone call during the holidays because he has no desire to communicate with others and to have fun.
you seem to think that they are two different people. But no. Just for this young man was attacked by "Sunday neurosis".
"Sunday neurosis" is a special kind of depression, disturbing people who are aware of the vacuity of his life in those days when the bustle of the working week is over, and declares himself the inner emptiness.
of Course, the saturation of everyday life does not leave a minute to think about the meaning of his life, of his real purposes. No time to stop, think about what the person has attained that it is satisfied with, and what you should change. That in life he really is fun? It would be better to let go? Why is he doing certain things? Why not change something that brings negative emotions?
In the days when the person does not fall numerous stimuli and it remains alone, all these questions POPs up in my head. And if the answers seem unattractive or non-existent, the person enters into a state of depression and despondency. Man is part of the so-called existential vacuum, which means that the meaning of life not to notice and recognize, and create a new too hard or there is no desire.
the Existential vacuum is not the best state of existence. Sometimes such sentiments lead to suicide. It is impossible to understand such widespread phenomena as depression, aggression and addiction of all kinds, if you do not recognize that their cause is often an existential vacuum.
Remember the depression and depression in older people. Same here. The crises of pensioners and the elderly are accompanied by a sense of existential vacuum.
However, people often conceal their feelings under various masks. Let us return to the example of the young man. The lack of meaning of life, no wife and children, the lack of long-term goals and Outlook at work, he hides under the mask of the Jolly party animal, for whom easy communication and vivid events are the basis of existence. It's only a mask, and he knows it. But not all his friends can see it. He doesn't want to show his feelings and pushes them away. However, they are not going anywhere. He has to cope with them, say, on Sundays. When he left to travel alone.
There are a variety of masks and a cover, under which the existential vacuum. Sometimes missing the will to meaning is substituted
the will to power, will to money. In other cases, the upset will to meaning is the will to pleasure. That is why the existential collapse often allowed sexual compensation. In such cases it is possible to see how sexual libido begins to run amok in the existential vacuum (Frankl, 1990).
Sunday neurosis can be amplified over time and become damaging to the psyche. They are an indication that in life something is going wrong, because of what he is experiencing. It is possible to effectively cope with this condition after the course of psychotherapy with professional counselor. With it you can develop an individual strategy of behavior, and minimize depression that attack man when he is alone with oneself.
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