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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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Hey @EternalFlower pretty good thanks just been buey, heading out for the day tomorrow so just getting everything organised then will seit down and watch some tv how about you

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Hey @EternalFlower what's happening ? Thanks for the tag

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hi @ArraDreaming @TAB nice and quiet here, but looking at a late night i think

sounds like a nice night @ArraDreaming what are you watching?

nice to see u @TAB

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I'm flying thanks @EternalFlower . Thanks for asking.
Finished the day with tin chip bowl on my head, Rn and orderly chasing me round the bed with a needle the size of a yabby pump while I sing em there fortunes backwards.. Not just a good day.

A great day by my reckoning

So . What's the world rolled out for you my friend. Read it. You don't like it.. wrap it round a brick

and return to sender with grate haste, I say mate. They'll have to weld, the lid shut on us , hey

Flowers. Damn.. Her she comes again..

Back to back.. You n me . we'll take all comers. Ouch..! I'm gone. tonys.

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Nice to see you @EternalFlower sleep got the better of me. Nite 😴

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glad you're keeping ok @tonys and finding humour and life in a place where it can be hard

sometimes hospital isn't the worst place, in my life experience. healing can happen there and doors can open.

i'm currently writing a complaint to my previous hospital for kicking me out into homelessness

they said they look forward to taking the following steps:

speaking to the staff members i mentioned who were abusive to me

closing the case

saying thank you for feedback

sounds a bit suss to me lol @Appleblossom fishy as you mentioned earlier on my thread

like why would you tell me the step is to close the case before you've looked at the matter?

not all people in these fields are there with good intent and i had the misfortune of dealing with some who just didn't care or see me.

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Hey there @EternalFlower How are you mate. I agree with you. I don't mind hospital either.

Depends on the hospital n staff I guess. But I'm having fun. We just have to make the best of what's under the wrapper my friend, or play with the wrapper.

Staff here are awesome so I meet them half way. Your how's sounds like a beautiful fresh start too

Eternal . Hope you can maintain the, half way reach there too mate. Night shift thread. Well I've never been here before..

Hope your moving with the music Eternal.. bye for now tonys

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thank you @tonys i always write in night shift during the day and good morning during the night

guess we're a bit out of sorts here..

i am in a cafe and theres a man here who appears to be crying

a young guy in his 20s and i am reminded that sadness is not just in me but everywhere

i don't know how to process loss and grief but i'm feeling worlds of it now

day by day

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You are so so right @EternalFlower Sadness is everywhere. In some it just shows, In others it glows. The ones without a flicker, silent, I worry about them the most.

Its what we do with that sadness. The answers in my bag work only for me. Imposing my reality over yours. Well I don't think it works. I just have to hope that, you, or someone better than me, lights a candle in your darkness.

See Eternal, If I was there, I would go over and put my arm around this fellow and clumsily make it worse. I opened a kind heart on here once and was so savagely abused for my trouble, I bailed for ages and learned a valuable lesson. I just can't help with other peoples realities. I have autism bad mate.

All I can say is, I'm sorry.. or try tell a funny story, most of which just won't fly off Sanes runway. Anyway , big big hug from me Eternal.

I like night shift. I can hide in the dark. . . Smile and look for the brightest things in the room when you can manage it my friend.

tonys

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@EternalFlower

Funny how the timings can get reversed, but the threads are just threads in cyberspace after all.

Yes complaints processes became a "gold standard" for feedback in organisations and then became lip service sometimes.

I am glad @tonys is making the most of his stay, but its a different scenario. Yet we can learn from each other how to adapt and learn to roll with things more easily.

Sad about that fellow in the cafe. It can be a toss up, how and when to engage. Yes there is a lot of need and pain everywhere in the world and it can be overwhelming. We can only do what we can for others and for our selves. I think finding a 'creative' outlet can also help as it can ground us between all the ups and downs of interpersonal stuff. Like tonys creativity is more practical and mechanical or comedic... but its still creativity.

Cheers

Apple

Back is crook gotta get off puta.

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