I can’t cope

I've got a sheet and 2 different blankets depending on the weather. One is woollen and the other is a thin throwover. I gave my doonas away with my bed lol @Captain24 I know I'm strange lol. But I like it, so who cares what anyone else thinks. LOL, I just looked up whether it's good to sleep on the floor and the research pretty much says it can be good for some and not for others.

I'm just happy it's Friday today. I don't normally say this, but seriously, I'm glad lol. I'll still be around this weekend though. I'm not sure who else is on. It's a surprise for me as much as you (only because I don't check).

Next question: Do you sleep on your back?

I don't. I'm a tummy or side sleeper. You? @Captain24 @Bow

You sleep on your side on the floor? @tyme. Doesn't it bruise your hips? Maybe I’m just soft! Lol

Embrace the fact that you are different and don’t follow the expectations.

Im a side sleeper.

If I sleep on my back I wake up with a really sore tail bone. It was damage when the kids at school pulled the seat from underneath me. Maybe that’s where I damage my discs? Just thought of that.

If I sleep on my stomach it hurts my lower back and I can move! I have an old body and I’m not 50 yet.

I do move a lot in my sleep though. I have woken up with my head at the foot of the bed or sideways. I have had the doona on the floor either side or off the end. I’m terrible to sleep with!

@Captain24 Nah don’t think the spa even works. There were no instructions left, nothing plugged in. Just a huge waste of space really. It has a lid on it so we use it for stage! Lotsa random junk in there.

@tyme Yeah I hate being so far away from my daughter of a night. She is at the front of the house and I’m at the back. Caused me huge anxiety when we first moved it. But she comes down to me if she needs me in the middle of the night, or my mum will hear her and get up to her too. Mum often gets up actually. She knows how bad I sleep. I will sleep with my door open while mum is away.

Kids mess….. so much stuff! My Ds room is a real issue. It’s small. And she has so much stuff. No wardrobe just a big chest of drawers. It’s AlWAyS a mess! I really don’t know what to do with it.

I’m mostly a side sleeper. Hugging a pillow. I have a king bed all to myself.

I have a live stream of Taylor swifts concert on my tv…. I have tried so hard to get tickets!!

Hahahaha @Captain24 . Thanks for sharing your sleep habits. It's just so interesting. When I'm tossing and turning in bed, I find that sleeping on the other end of the bed helps me sleep better sometimes. Hence I've got pillows on either ends of the bed. When sleeping, I don't like my feet covered. So they have to be sticking out from under the blanket/doona.

I DON'T use a second flat sheet because I don't see the point - it's just more washing. Instead, I wash my doona cover or blanket.

I also have a bad back and it's because I was flipped when I was doing martial arts and spent a week on my back and couldn't move. Since then, every so often, something will click in my back and I'd be paralysed. It's not nice at all. Wearing orthotics in my shows helps balance out the body which in turns helps my back.

And yes, the bad part of sleeping on the floor is that I get bruised where the bony parts of my body meets the floor. It's like your entire weight is on your hips when you sleep on your side, or the side of my knee.

I hope we all have a good sleep tonight after talking about beds and sleep lol

Hey @tyme @Bow.

Talking about sleep, I’m going to nod off. Thank you guys so so so much for the chat it has help me immensely and I really appreciate it.

Thank you and I hope you both have a good night

@Captain24 I’ve done one private psych admission. Public hospital sent me there as a public funded patient to have ECT. So I was there for nearly 6? Weeks I think.

We did groups every morning, including weekends. And they were compulsory. And they had a 3 week program that just repeated every 3 weeks. 3 weeks is generally the minimum stay. Groups were ran by psychologists. We never had to share if we didn’t want to. Just being present was good, but it was always encouraged.
In the afternoons they opened the gym, did art therapy, games, music therapy, dog therapy… all sorts a things. You didn’t have to do any of these activities. I usually just did my own thing in my room.
weekends after groups they did different activities. Depending on what level you were on and if there were enough wanting to, they would organise a group walk, a walk to the shops, the botanical gardens. They did karaoke. Movie nights.
We did not see an individual psychologist, but if the psychologist running groups had time and you had questions etc, they were more than happy to sit for a bit and chat.

some nurses were really good… others not so.

Other patients, they were nice. I’ve done a lot of public admissions and the folks are very different. Private…. Most want to be there to get help. I made a friend my first night there. We always ate together. Checked in with each other. We still text every now and then.

So interesting @Bow . I'm glad your D can come see you when she wants you. Do you use your entire king bed? I know someone who is a really tiny Filipino lady. She has a 2 year old. She and her 2 year old son sleep in the king bed, while the husband who is a big guy sleeps on the lounge... I'd be lost in a king bed!

As for Taylor Swift, just hearing about it is stirring up the hype. I didn't realise how big it was. I'm hearing that tens of thousands of people will be at the live show tonight so that they've increased trains, expanded the free tram network, employed a few thousand staff to ensure safety and security of attendees etc.... WOW. I heard that she is one who know how to do business and sell herself to succeed and that's the difference between her and other singers.

@Captain24 - are you a Taylor Swift fan?

I'm going to start wrapping up too. I hope to be able to get an earlier night tonight @Captain24 @Bow

Thanks so much for the chat tonight. We will chat over the weekend.

Stay safe.

I generally sleep on just one side @tyme my D slept with me for many years cause she was such a bad sleeper, it was just easier for her to be in with me- but I slept badly cause of her so eventually turfed her out! Bed is the only thing I have kept from my marriage… the mattress was a few thousand cause it’s an orthotic one for my back. But he never slept in it! He was a snorer and I hate it and couldn’t sleep.

yep taylor is very smart. Folks have said melbourne is her biggest crowd ever… not sure how accurate that is though. People have spent thousand on going…. Tickets, flights, accom, outfits, merchandise.

@Captain24I had something to say but reading about @tyme 's spartan lifestyle has completely thrown me! I'm impressed, live the way you want tyme, but maybe a thin mat at least to spare your poor hips?

What you have written about the admission sounds really nice, four hours leave right next to the ocean? I would be under the water for those four hours every time. Thanks for sharing your experience as well @Bow I am completely ignorant of how these things work and always want to understand as much as I can about mental health care. It sounds like a useful experience but I wonder how it ties into longer term care.

OK, OK, everyone has already gone to bed / wants to, just piping up saying I enjoy everyone chatting and hope for the best like always.

Wait! I remembered what I was going to say... actually maybe I will keep it for later. Pleasant dreams everyone.