MazaritaSenior Contributor
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. 
Yes, hour by hour, good advice. At the moment I'm tending to panic inside when I get the impulse and can't seem to delay the compulsion by much yet. Best way of delaying today has been to get on the exercise bike for 10 minutes but I don't think I'll be able to keep up that much exercise every time I have to delay, lol. Doing the mindfulness breathing has been temporarily helpful too.
