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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor23 Sept 2015, 4:13 am AEST

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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plasmoSenior Contributor19 Feb 2021, 1:06 am AEDT

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hoot

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TABSenior Contributor19 Feb 2021, 1:21 am AEDT

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Hey @plasmo just about to crash here . Saw you mentioned in Thumbs up Thursday - Woohoo!

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plasmoSenior Contributor19 Feb 2021, 2:55 am AEDT

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hehe

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Unknown userMember19 Feb 2021, 11:00 am AEDT

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I don't know if you've noticed this about yourself, but I have found a weird kind of habit or pet peeve.

I hate overhearing or seeing conversations when I don't know what people are talking about. As I have mentioned before, I hate overhearing my ex's voice at work. Partially because it makes me sad, but partially because I can't REALLY hear what they're saying. I don't want to overhear something that I'm not supposed to.

Last night, my manager was talking to her for like fifteen minutes after her shift ended, which is a bit weird. I hope she's OK, because it made me think that they were talking about something serious. I obviously don't know that, but yeah.

I don't think it's just about her, I think it's a general pattern.

I had this problem in high school. A counsellor I spoke to described it as a way to be there for people when you can't. Like you want to be involved in their conversation and offer what you can, especially when it seems to be serious. You want to contribute, but you know you can't, and that's frustrating.

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TABSenior Contributor19 Feb 2021, 12:01 pm AEDT

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happened to me a lot, usually at work, and it would have been about me or soemthing they did not want me to hear , so no good working with ah's so I left @Former-Member

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plasmoSenior Contributor19 Feb 2021, 6:05 pm AEDT

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sometimes i just can't stand hearing other people talk.

i just got some guys comment removed on a forum, i've just got no time for cynics these days, just abusive negative people. life is too short.

seems every time you go in the net you;re dicing with someone getting your goat - you might get a streak of a month without it.

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TABSenior Contributor19 Feb 2021, 6:19 pm AEDT