Stress Center Peer Support

A big source of my stress comes from work. Without fail, every Monday morning I'm sick to my stomach, upset and most of all angry. I'm downright furious about having to go to work. I'm trying to work thru this and I don't want to quit because it's hard. I don't think quitting would even help, b/c this might just happen at another job if I got one. So my question.... I become nasty and angry and I do a complete 180 from who I am on weekends (happy, laidback, successfully taking steps to conquer my anxiety) and I'm just launched back to square one on Mondays. Today my husband called wanting to go out later and I nearly took his head off. I try SO hard to compartmentalize my frustration but I can't. I have so many things I want to do, hobbies I've taken up to help me because happier and more positive and yet between an hr commute back and forth and working between 8-9 hrs at a desk, all I want to do is go home and go to bed. I don't want work to take away my happy moments... but I'm just so angry (fitting that I'm on session 6!) How do you deal with your frustrations while maintaining things that make you happy?

I just hate that every Monday I pull a Dr Jekyl/Mr Hyde. My husband even anticipates it now and so do I! I cry and get upset and sick then once I'm at work and for the rest of the day I'm just downright miserable and angry and take it out on anyone I come in contact with (except of course the people I work with!)

Ugh!!!!!!

If your job is causing you that much physical and emotional distress... you should start looking for something else. I would not advise quitting your job until you do find something else in light of today's economy In the meantime, ask yourself what it is that is making you dislike your job so much. Is it really the job? Is it you? Do you not want to work full time? Do you not want to work at all? Is this a should of yours or a should of someone else's? Think of what brings you happiness in life, and then try to find a way to make money doing it. That is the key to success.

thanks Hawaii. i think what it is is that I'm not fulfilled. I have taken up writing and running and feel that by the end of the day I'm so mentally exhausted that I don't want to do the things I enjoy. Everything is centered around spending my time at a job that I find unfulfilling and thankless. I work with nice people, but my job requires me to be aggressive and its stress inducing (even for someone without anxiety!) I want to take yoga classes and I can't because my work schedule doesn't permit enough time. The only time I can go to the gym or run is after work and then I'm out of the house for almost 12 hrs and still have to come home and cook or clean or whatever, so I do that then head to bed just to wake up and head back to work.

its just so incredibly frustrating. i'm like a different person during the times I actually don't have to work.

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I saw this on another post. It was an inspirational talk that addresses (in a fairly short amount of time) the problem of fulfillment.

Thought you might like to view it...