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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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You know yourself well with it, like I know my take on art 😊

Nice chatting with you @Tyler77, but I'm getting sleepy again now ... might try for a few more 💤💤💤.

G'night.

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Gnight @Faith-and-Hope

Nice chatting with you.. 🙂 🙂 🙂

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Hi @eth, @Faith-and-Hope, I've seen you posting and thought I'd give you a call out if you feel like a chat. Same applies to anyone online who just wants a bit of back and forth banter for a bit.

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Would love to @Mazarita, but I'm just heading out for a while. I'll be checking back in later though.

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Hi @Mazarita Did you manage to get some decent sleep in? How's your day going?

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Cool, @Faith-and-Hope, hope you enjoy what you're up to out there. 🙂

@eth, didn't get to sleep last night until after 4am but that was by choice alone really. Have had a couple of sleeps since then and feeling okay. I'm enjoying a 'day off' from all my efforts to do things that are 'good for me'. How about you with the sleep and the day?

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@Mazarita I had 4 sleeps overnight adding up to just over 7 hours - the total is better now for 3 days but I'm still up at least a few times every night and last night was up from 12.15 til 3.45 so I can't say it's a healthy regime. Still I do feel better for the extra total than when I was only getting 4-5 broken hours.

Today is a quiet one for me too, just doing a few overdue chores here and getting organised to cook later and have my mate over for dinner. Will try to have a nap later in the afternoon.

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@eth,

I think it's so great you are getting more sleep overall. May the improvements continue. I spoke to my psychiatrist again yesterday about the broken sleep routine I'm in and he thinks it will take time. Could be the same with you. Maybe we will never have entirely 'normal' sleep with the bipolar. But with a bit of luck we might be able to improve on things and at least get a healthy dose of sleep overall. Mostly I feel I'm getting that as is over about three sleeps in 24 hours.

Cool that you are getting on to the overdue chores. I've made the bed and semi-dressed myself but that's about it. In 10 minutes there's a movie on SBS2 I want to have a go at, a sci fi anime. Nice one on cooking for your man and spending an evening with him tonight.

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@Mazarita enjoy the movie. I can't get into anime but my kids are really into it I think. I'm expecting a call from them this afternoon which I'm really looking forward to.

I've started making a list of what to talk to the psychiatrist about. Sometimes posts on here help me work it out. It seems you have a good rapport with yours.

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Thanks @eth. I'll take off again now. Time went faster than I thought. Hope you enjoy the phone call and evening get together.

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