{"id":12043,"date":"2024-08-29T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12043"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:23:41","slug":"stressed-about-the-end-of-summer-heres-how-to-deal-with-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12043","title":{"rendered":"Stressed About the End of Summer? Here\u2019s How to Deal With September."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Late August can be a time of sleepy summer pleasures \u2014 and pit-in-the-stomach dread for what\u2019s coming after Labor Day. Here\u2019s how to manage all the feelings.<\/p>\n

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If January is the Monday of the calendar year, then summer is clearly its weekend \u2014 June is its Friday, July its Saturday and August its lazy, delicious, fretful Sunday. Which is why so many of us currently find ourselves in the grips of the \u201cSeptember Scaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those familiar with the concept of the Sunday Scaries will recognize this feeling. (And yes, the analogy suggests we should call it the August Scaries, but alliteration trumps symmetry here.) It\u2019s a combination of dread, regret and anticipation that accompanies the end of a communal pause and the beginning of a hectic and demanding time.<\/p>\n

You can blame it in part on our collective fantasy of summer. Regardless of whether you are still bound to a school schedule, the months when school is out are inexorably associated with pleasure, freedom and spontaneity. \u201cWe underestimate how much our scripts and our narratives about the season really affect us,\u201d said Kari Leibowitz, a research psychologist whose forthcoming book, \u201cHow To Winter,\u201d examines our preconceptions about the seasons and how to reframe them. \u201cSummer is ice cream cones and being on the beach. Responsibilities and real life are for September.\u201d<\/p>\n

August, perhaps more than any other month, is when we give ourselves permission to rest. Emails don\u2019t need to be responded to as quickly; even texts to friends can be returned at a leisurely pace. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of putting-off that happens in summer,\u201d said Will deFries, whose popular Sunday Scaries Instagram account<\/a> has been posting memes about that phenomenon since 2014. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of, \u2018I\u2019ll worry about that later.\u2019\u201d But by late August, later is very soon, and we can feel the pressures of a busy season bearing down. (Mr. deFries said his account sees an uptick in engagement around Labor Day weekend \u2014 a sign that the \u201cscaries\u201d are especially acute this time of year.)<\/p>\n

You may also feel like you squandered your summer \u2014 you didn\u2019t sip Negronis on a pebbly Italian beach or admire enough fulsome hydrangeas \u2014 and now have regrets. August can be really challenging, said Amelia Aldao, a New York City psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy. \u201cYou are expecting your summer or your vacation to be great, and then it\u2019s not. There\u2019s often a mismatch of expectations, which can be a trigger for anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Late August can be a time of sleepy summer pleasures \u2014 and pit-in-the-stomach dread for what\u2019s coming after Labor Day. Here\u2019s how to manage all the feelings.If January is the Monday of the calendar year, then summer is clearly its weekend \u2014 June is its Friday, July its Saturday and August its lazy, delicious, fretful Sunday. Which is why so many of us currently find ourselves in the grips of the \u201cSeptember Scaries.\u201dThose familiar with the concept of the Sunday Scaries will recognize this feeling. (And yes, the analogy suggests we should call it the August Scaries, but alliteration trumps symmetry here.) It\u2019s a combination of dread, regret and anticipation that accompanies the end of a communal pause and the beginning of a hectic and demanding time.You can blame it in part on our collective fantasy of summer. Regardless of whether you are still bound to a school schedule, the months when school is out are inexorably associated with pleasure, freedom and spontaneity. \u201cWe underestimate how much our scripts and our narratives about the season really affect us,\u201d said Kari Leibowitz, a research psychologist whose forthcoming book, \u201cHow To Winter,\u201d examines our preconceptions about the seasons and how to reframe them. \u201cSummer is ice cream cones and being on the beach. Responsibilities and real life are for September.\u201dAugust, perhaps more than any other month, is when we give ourselves permission to rest. Emails don\u2019t need to be responded to as quickly; even texts to friends can be returned at a leisurely pace. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of putting-off that happens in summer,\u201d said Will deFries, whose popular Sunday Scaries Instagram account has been posting memes about that phenomenon since 2014. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of, \u2018I\u2019ll worry about that later.\u2019\u201d But by late August, later is very soon, and we can feel the pressures of a busy season bearing down. (Mr. deFries said his account sees an uptick in engagement around Labor Day weekend \u2014 a sign that the \u201cscaries\u201d are especially acute this time of year.)You may also feel like you squandered your summer \u2014 you didn\u2019t sip Negronis on a pebbly Italian beach or admire enough fulsome hydrangeas \u2014 and now have regrets. August can be really challenging, said Amelia Aldao, a New York City psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy. \u201cYou are expecting your summer or your vacation to be great, and then it\u2019s not. There\u2019s often a mismatch of expectations, which can be a trigger for anxiety.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12045,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}