6 Ways to Manage the Sunday Night Blues

By Vicki Salemi

Got a cold? Or is it the flu? It's no coincidence that this thinking starts emerging every single Sunday. The pit in the stomach feeling. Dread. Simply stated: stress.

You're not alone. In a survey released by Monster in June, 76 percent of all U.S. respondents reported having "really bad" Sunday night blues. What does that say about our workforce as a nation, considering three-quarters of us shortchange our weekends with the pending gloom of an upcoming workweek? In contrast, only 42 percent of European respondents report having Sunday night blues on the same level.

Now that we know the numbers, here are several remedies. They're not as simple as popping an aspirin to soothe the aches and pains; you need to closely examine underlying reasons for the blues in order to significantly improve the situation.