Edel Coffey: September is giving people The Fear

It seems like we’ve all packed three summers’ worth of travelling/socialising/activities into the last few months and now we have all arrived at September exhausted, depleted, and drained

Edel Coffey: September also includes a bonus level for mammies

Have you heard of September anxiety? Apparently, it’s a thing. You may have heard people talking about Mercury being in retrograde recently, or the full moon making us all a bit batty.

Both of these things are regularly blamed for everything from cars breaking down, long airline queues and even that argument you had with your husband over whether clingfilm can go in the microwave or not. If things are irksome, clunky, or just not going as well as they could be, it’s either Mercury in retrograde or the moon. But it turns out at this particular time of year it could be something else entirely — September anxiety.