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Night Shift

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.

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ethSenior Contributor

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Hi @Former-Member it's good to see you again. I've been thinking about you this week. Sorry to hear life is still pretty tough at the moment. Hoping you get a good rest tonight before the week starts again.

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MazaritaSenior Contributor

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@Former-Member, great to see you here again! 🙂 I like to whinge here about my physical ailments but I'm doing okay with them, pretty used to it over time really, have always been a bit fragile like that, as well as with the mental health. Thank goodness for my creative life and caring people! Sorry you are struggling so hard. Sending warm hugs and strength your way.

@Former-Member, I think you've probably worked out that the 'Night Shift' goes 24 hours a day now. Just jump in anytime at all with anything you feel like saying, that's the way most of us do it. If someone's online and reading here (which is fairly often these days), you are likely to get a response of some kind pretty soon. If not, we'll read your message later.

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Unknown userMember

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Sorry youre not well either @eth hope you feel better soon.

someimes i rub vicks into my kids feet at night and put socks over and it helps with chesty things...

lj

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Unknown userMember

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Thanks again @Mazarita,
Guess it's time for me to put my big girl pants on and jump in.

Hi all,
First of all I wanted to send healing wishes to those who are not feeling well either physically or mentally or both. Also congratulations to anyone who had a win of any kind today.

My day has been ok considering all today's plans fell apart. I was meant to be moving my sons car in a car trailer (because it isn't working at the moment) to the new house but it didn't end up happening.

I tend to overanalyse everything so I'm just giving you a heads up. Today my thoughts were on empathy as part of reading threads on this forum. Today I realised there is two types of empathy or maybe just two sides of the same coin. One where you acknowledge that you can't put yourself in someone's shoes but want to be there for them and to listen and offer support. The other is where you have an understanding of what the other person is going through and can express that to the person and connect with them as a form of support. My lightening bolt today is that through this forum I am beginning to learn more about what people are going through and hope that I can understand enough about people's experiences to be able to offer both types/ sides of empathy. I think empathy can come naturally but is probably a learned skill. Sometimes I may get it wrong and I hope that I don't offend anyone.

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Unknown userMember

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Hi all...

Sorry to read of everyone's struggles...

Wishing everyone health...

Sorry I don't have the energy to engage much...

Namaste,

A

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MazaritaSenior Contributor

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@Former-Member, I like your thoughts on empathy, hadn't thought about it in that way before. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@Former-Member, good to see you, thanks for the well wishes. I'm guessing you are still doing well with yoga. I hear your day to day struggles with energy and it's okay that you can't engage much. Always good when you can. Wishing you the best as always.

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Unknown userMember

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I'm not sure if anyone is interested but this is a short video from the incredible Brene Brown on empathy. It's just under 3 min long. It's where I first came to understand empathy a little earlier this year. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

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Angels333Senior Contributor

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Hi all,

Welcome @Former-Member

Hi @Former-Member I am just checking in too. As I find typing so hard sometimes

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Hi @Angels333

I love your artwork.

Hi @Former-Member

Thanks for what you said about empathy.

Hi everyone else. Wishing you well, and some cheerfulness in the recovery from ailments 💜

Lovely to see gentle hugs being passed around. I hope you all sleep well at some point tonight.

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plasmoSenior Contributor

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im thinking about sleeping
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