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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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Hi @Faith-and-Hope very wise and very true and very ..well, thanks .. am still up tho

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haha not been to sleep yet here glad I did something right apparently. Very charitable of you @Former-Member

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😊 no worries @ TAB..so exhausting ..I can relate to @Former-Member..I end up feeling like a nut. I think having to constantly deal with so many people re-telling the story drives me mad. Some people really grasp & understand..some really don't! The ones that pretend to know drive me insane!!

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Hi All
I'm off to Melbourne today for discussions with some of my colleagues at one of the universities. I'll also have a chance to catch up with a friend whom I haven't seen for 16 months.
It's a short trip cause I'll be back home Saturday arvo. Looks as if I need to take a raincoat.
Have a great day peeps! 💕 😀

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Hi @Kurra ... 😊

Have a great trip .... hope your back has come good ...

🌷

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Thanks for thinking of me @Former-Member and @Faith-and-Hope. 😀💜
Time to get moving, nearly school time. I really need more sleep. 😴
Chat later. 😊

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omg well best I can do atm is remember you as kind sorta cool person @Former-Member ja re re telling .. prob also guilty

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@TAB

My S2 did a day / night switch around a couple of months ago and got stuck there .... dr gave him Melatonin .... he refused to take it for weeks ... has put himself back to get her again now, but it took the scaffolding / structure so he had something to aim for and stop the mental drift and spiral ....

On Melatonin now and it's helping ... putting the other stuff back in place for himself in bits and pieces ...

Suggest set an alarm when (if ?) you do fall asleep today to limit it to two-three hours only ... try to crash properly tonight ....

Getting sleep back in the right place can help reset other stuff ...

Just a suggest ...

Good luck ...

Lookin' for ☕️☕️☕️ ....

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s'ok @Faith-and-Hope , and I really DO appreciate your thoughts and advice .. whole 'life' out of kilter atm, sleep is least of worries ok symptom plus doesn;t help etc etc yeah coulda slept 8 hrs ago maybe, just get past a point re overtired, well, and/or nothing to get up for .

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No not at all @TAB...I find comments,thoughts all helpful here...I'm talking about my son & people I deal with...it's probably my own head talk, half my trouble!!!
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