The Tyranny of Being Busy

Dr. Misty Hook
5 min readDec 4, 2019
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One Sunday night, my husband and I were talking about how sad we were that our weekend was almost over. Both of us expressed dismay that the next day was Monday but then my husband asked, “Why do you hate Mondays? You love your job!” He’s right. I do love my job. I love almost every aspect of being a psychologist (well, except paperwork; no one likes paperwork). Given that I really enjoy my work, it did seem odd that, like so many other…

Dr. Misty Hook

Psychologist and writer. More of my writing can be found at www.thepsychologicalhook.com.