Tabaluga's

@TAB @StuF Good morning cool friends, take care.

whipper snippering b4 go to bigtown @Meowmy have a good day

G'morning @TAB @StuF @Meowmy

@Taali i heard the same as @heartathome re it being best to take antidepressants in the morning. We have had sleep issues in this house for a long time. Yes, fair enough re roles and boundaries and meeting your friend today. Enjoy.

@DownMoreThanUp your trailer looks great.

I am still feeling "delicate" but I just wanted to drop in quickly and say hello to you all.

@SmilingGecko @Bunniekins and all reading along.

Good Morning @Appleblossom been snippering and mowinglike last hour , sweat pouring off me, its not hot ,ok grass 3ft high back yard and foot and half in front ha ha

I take my antidepressants morning and night. They are 2 different specific types and doses.

Sorry you're feeling a bit "delicate"

Does that mean you're like fine china? Just kidding 😂

I hope wellness pans out for you @Appleblossom

I'm showered and waiting a bit nervously for my mental health support worker to arrive.

Been up since 3:30....

Have thrown the soup that I made last night out and tried to make a new pot 🙃

I don't have an appetite and my taste buds have gone to sh!t.

Don't know why? I think it's probably due to medications I was fully on post surgery.

I have no or little sense of smell so am afraid of smelling like an old lady!!

You be good to you my lovely friend. 💞💞

Taali 💜

Read this this morning:

"You are the artist of your life ✨️

don't hand your paint brush to anyone 💫"

makes some sense

Taali 💜

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and all who pass by here, Taali 💜

@TAB Onya mate! Better you than me. I romanticise country living, and know I am not up to that kind of hard Yakka anymore. Lol Take it easy when you can.

@Taali sometimes I am short on words...just gentle hugs

Gently Bently 🍎

haha I was puffing @Appleblossom silly of me ended up with chiro then gym then massage one after the other starting in 90 mins. am stuffed already. maybe in future will do gym plus 1 and 1 only other thing.going to be fun.

@Taali

My elder blood? Yes and no we are brothers in the faith, he is my Church elder, he has been very supportive overall.

Yes i understand that 3 hours at best is very frustrating, my dropped to less than 2 struggling with my wife. Bad sleep badly effects our mental health. The first thing to do is hard and takes time to learn and that is accept you are awake and frustration is to be overcome.

Not by getting upset when you get frustrated, but giving yourself a hug and calming down in low light on a lazy chair. Now this does not always work for me, but i'm getting better at. give yourself at least 30-40 minutes before deciding more sleep wont come. (i cache it by mental activity.) so if i still feel sleepy and tired i go back to bed take the sleeper i had not taken yet and hug myself.

Now it depends on my mood. if i get angry or frustrated i get up for then i waste my time. Often yet this way i can add between 1-3 hours to my sleep. This is why i try and go to bed before 9pm. So when my first sleep is good i will wake after 1am, but then i will already have four hours. then i stay up and just wait till 4 or 5am and than try an other sleep.

Not sure if this is helpful. But do know you are no the only one who struggles with that.

Another thing i use but can only be used rarely is anti-histamine that makes sleepy, max dosage. Then i often get 5+ hours sleep. But if i do it once and sleep well and the next night it wont work. so i do it only when i really run low or when i'm very unwell mentally and need sleep.

Make sure you take magnesium (Glycinate) before you go to bed, and use a good make for they sell a lot of crap too. And i found that Gaba helped a lot settle stress as well B-complex and above all B12 and B6. So indirectly this promotes better sleep as well.

Meditating on love and how love, kindness, gentleness, helps bring stability and peace within. But how anger, frustration, seeing or feeling negatively and agreeing with such thoughts before bed are NO good. So i used to DREAD going ot bed for it had such a negative build up my insomnia but letting go of that and letting bed become a place of safety and rest by loving myself and be kind when i fail. i know it sounds simplistic yet i'm getting on average between 5 1/2 6 hours a night now over tow or three (short) sleeps. All because bed is not negative any more and i learned to let go of feeling frustrated and/or scared going to bed.

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@TAB hey tabby , enjoy big town. Stressed and headache today. At work.