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Night Shift

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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Man, I want to try those sleeping Meds @TAB. Anti wrinkle formula sounds great😜😊 are you on the map Ve again soon or is it how you feel on the day that dictates when you travel😊💜

Hi @Faith-and-Hope. How goes things? Feel free to Copy and paste anything. I hope you are getting some you time and baby dragons aren't breathing too much fire🔥 😊💜

@Former-Member thanks. I hope your week is better than last week. At least you don't have those big appointments on Tuesday again. Keep up the walking. It suits you💜👍😊. I think I can tell when you've been. 😊💜

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From my experience I normally wait until my next dose @Former-Member. I missed my afternoon dose too, just remembered. I'll wait and just take my morning one as normal. If you are worried you could ring health direct and they could probably answer that. I hope this helps. Possibly not the best person to give medication advice but anyway. 😊💐💜

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Wow, @Former-Member, so glad for you, that hospital worked. And in the public system. They have a good long term plan to support you and you seem to have OK family around. Did they change your meds? Know you can't be specific.

Today was sunny here too. Had a friend visit from out of town & did a bit of community work. The back is on the mend but fatigued for no good reason. Had some nightmares lately. Tried to ring my so today but he didn't pick up or return the call. Seems to prefer texting which I find quite shallow or limiting. Miss him. Mother gave me a hard time earlier in the week. What's new lol. Just gotta keep working at trying to build heaven in my tiny space on the planet. Have my psych apt Wed finally, she may have some helpful suggestions.

You know, we really have to let the 'good days' soak into our soul, all those little moments of joy, sketch them in the hardwiring of memory so we can retrieve them any time ahead. I've started a 'Joyful Journal' where I record times like this, REAL experiences to retrieve on those times i crash. I've actually misplaces it ATM in my clutter chaos, but talking to you has encouraged me to dig it up. Thanks. Keep moving fwd. JK Rowling's sais "Rock bottom became the foundation I rebuilt my life" I'm hopeful for you Teej. 🙂

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@Former-Member I think the walks are good for me too. I have to phone tomorrow to have my EEG test done. I'm not sure if I want to do any more cognitive testing. I'm just going to ask her for the pet scan.

I don't have another psych appointment for another two weeks, so I am going to make the most of the next two weeks. I mite even do a pool swim tomorrow and my ten km walk.

I am also getting some tickets tomorrow for a music festival in Dec, I think it will be something to look forward to. What do you have on this wk?

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yeah @Former-Member took them again years later, not same results haha, well can only work with what you have or do so much to your body before it just says get off me lol ie aging..

yeah timeline closing re moving again. Haven't got over self/out of shell again yet, brain is toying with plan A, B, etc now, stupid brain..

whichever one ends up being, involves time out from work tho, thinking.

whips not exactly cracking, but some sort of reality will cut in soon

..oh.. was vaguely thinking wanted to share some postive past experiences about a friend who passed few years ago, not sure why they are back in my head.. bit overwhelmed at moment maybe

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Thanks @Former-Member. I'm only on a really small dose of the AD. I think the walk today would probably have been good as the AD anyway. I usually take it at lunch time because it makes me sleepy when it is time to go to bed. At least that is kinda a positive side effect. I think I will wait until lunchtime tomorrow now- no point taking it now.

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Hi @Former-Member

Baby dragons have been behaving very nicely actually .... she says .... right before the start of another school week .... lol ....

D3 has a "wry neck" injury as of last Friday ..... soooo hoping she's not gonna try and use it to get out of going to school tomorrow, or turn up really late ....

S2 had his first day in his new uni course on Friday, and loved it ❣ He is really putting himself back together in ap the last week or so, and that just gave him a giant boost ....

WH is away ... so I'm sleeping better ... yay ....

Today was very full, but lazily so. Feeling warm and fuzzy tonight 😏

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Thanks @Former-Member. I feel very lucky that I have had the support I do with my therapist. I've had to suck a lot of eggs with my mental health team at times too and often wondered if it was worth it. This week it seems it was, because they listened and did things about it. I feel more supported. Actually the only medication change was a drop in antidepressant dose. I guess it's worth keeping in mind that this is my best time of the week and so am honestly prepared to crash but as you say I'll take the good moments for now.

Im happy for you that you mostly had a nice day today. Pity your son didn't pick up. It's good that you have those memories from his graduation a few weeks ago to hold on to for now. Great to hear your back is on the mend. I'm hoping that this week finds you some joy. Take care @Former-Member. Hugs 💜😊

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Hi @Faith-and-Hope

How are you?

What do you have on tomorrow?

I'm still trying to work out what I want to do- I think I'll give myself another few weeks to sort myself out. I'm happy with my lifestyle changes, I think I want to to find work in public health.

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Hi @Former-Member, not ignoring you, just haven't caught up on things. Ring 13HEALTH about tyour meds or preferably your pharmacist, you can be more specific with them. As I rule its good not to let the levels in your blood drop over a 24hr period, so I wouldn't miss any but check. Wish I could gp walking with you. So need exercise, actually, did you say 24km? Now that's not for me. Amazing effort!
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