A bad week is seven days, not a forecast for your whole life. Zoom out before you judge it.

Seven bad days is a small sample, and the mind reads it as a trend because recent experience feels like the whole picture. Inside a bad week, everything before it is hard to recall and everything after it looks identical. That is a distortion of scale rather than a forecast. A week can be genuinely awful and predict nothing.

Before drawing conclusions, set the week beside the last six months. Ask whether this is a pattern or an episode, and answer honestly either way. Patterns deserve changes, and episodes mostly deserve sleep.