Uncertainty

Uncertainty covers more ground than indecision. It includes the person who has made a decision but keeps asking everyone whether it was the right one, and the person who swings between two options all week and ends up doing neither.

It also covers the flatness that follows a setback. There is the kind where you know you have been knocked back and you are discouraged, and the deeper kind where you have quietly concluded that nothing will help, so there is no point trying. Those are two different remedies.

The Monday morning version belongs here too. Not tiredness exactly, more the feeling that the day ahead is too much before it has even started. And if the uncertainty is about the bigger picture, about what you are actually meant to be doing with your life, there is a remedy for that as well.