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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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Well that's getting there as a whinge @Kurra but it's not an A just yet😜

On a serious note it's a bummer that happen, hate it when we are in self inflicted pain. I hope you sleep soon💜😊💐

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Hey @Faith-and-Hope. How was your day. Please direct me if you've written it anywhere. I'm really hoping there's a D3 ✅

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@Former-Member

D3 ✅ right here @Former-Member .... she got another assignment finished overnight ....

She got to school really late .... but D1 was at home, as was WH, so I stayed out and went for a foot massage ... haven't been for one for a while and it helps to calm me down at a core level somehow. 🌹💕

I find that coming home to cook WH's lunch every day tends to make pieces out of my day, once you add it to not knowing what time I'm gonna get D3 to school, then the school pick up mid afternoon .... I end up feeling a bit spun out at the end of the day, and cutting corners to prepare a cooked meal again for the rest of the family while WH has boiled eggs .... he actually ate them with us tonight tho .... ?! :face_with_rolling_eyes:

Have to just keep signing off on it all .... treading water waiting for a turning of the tide ....

🐾 ... baby steps ... 🐾

Getting through the Kitchen Tea prep ....

❤️

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Looks like some big wins and some losses @Faith-and-Hope. Really happy to see the D3✅💜💜💜

keep taking care of you. I think I'm in a bit of a weird place right now. Trying to settle, I'm ok just trying to slow the crash as its already started but not chronic this time so far so that's a win✅

I hope tomorrow's another step closer for D3 💜😊

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🌷💜

That's sounding positive @Former-Member .... learning to extend stabilisers will take time and practice ... maybe that's what your therapist is saying ....

It's one thing to understand strategies and techniques ... but it still takes learning to apply them .... and you are ... but it happens in baby steps 🐾 .... you could call it consolidation ... and right now you're attaching anchors to slow the crash ....

Well done 😊❣

Rather than stressing about my day being in pieces, I need to recognise that's that's what it is when WH is "in residence" and switch to working with one to two hour blocks of time .... that way I'm swimming with the tide in a controlled way, rather than floundering in it or trying to swim against it ....

Still applying the "ocean waves" metaphor I've realised ... 😏.... to your situation and mine .... 💕

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hoot hoot

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Hiya @plasmo 😊

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hi

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Howzit going ?

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good, irritible about a few things though
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