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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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Maybe those limitations are self imposed @TAB. None of us knows where those limitations really are until we start oushing our self imposed boundaries.

I have been where you are now and was for a long time until I chose to take responsibility for my own mental health and started to push those boundaries beyond what my mind was telling me. Dogged determination won in the end. Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting that it's easy.

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never tried it, but there you are. @Kurra ..well ok, that's not true, have persisted with all sorts of crap ..not over huge time periods tho re work

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You'll get there @TAB 🎶

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Hi @Former-Member ..I think that sounds like a good idea. Just get the position and I'm sure you will it will help you, give you structure, if that's what you need, get to interact with people as you said etc. It might not seem so, but I am a people pleaser at heart, well, I was, not sure if that's still so, but I loved helping way older 'mate' out serving at fish and chip shop years ago, lots smiles, talking to people, giving them something they appreciated etc.. people are funny things

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Well it's time I got back to bed. I've slept already but now it's time for more 💤😴

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Yes. Perhaps not on whatever passes for a 'path' that I am sort of on atm tho lol time to act to stuff, step sideways etc, all a bit climbing mountains to get not much then falling to bottom of the sea for me re work atm .. sure you will be ok with your spirit tho @Kurra

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...zzzz ... wha' ..?? haha nite @Kurra

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G'night from me too .... 💤😴

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You know I think @Kurra wasnt just talking about work @TAB but life in general. I just joined in passively but get that somehow digging deep and finding a live worth living with your own integrity is the aim in all this. I'm the first to put my hand up and acknowledge I need to find something that works better for me so that life's worth living. You are ahead of me in so many ways. just keep working at it until you find your place of contentment. Cheers💜😊

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..yeah @Former-Member, I 'reacted' .. hm yes you are right I think . Oww. Life.. Yeh, nah, think you've got me covered there, and I really don't have the guts to say what a mess my life was mostly, but yes, if there is a 'theme' it's that i always looked for an easy way out.. the big pisser was uni degree.. silly boy, talked to wrong people afterwards re trying to get work out of it, took their word for things, thought I was persisting(really) ..or was that Really!! I've put myself in all sorts of odd situations, survived, and walked away, I honestly forget how hard I did pushed sometimes for things I really wanted .. but most times, thought 'oh, I tried' .. hmmmmmmmm..

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