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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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MazaritaSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 2:32 am AEST

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Hi @eth, @plasmo, took so long posting that last one I missed that you had posted yours. Good to see you!

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MazaritaSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 2:36 am AEST

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@eth, had a long dental procedure yesterday which knocked me around a bit but feel okay now. How's you?

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plasmoSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 2:37 am AEST

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doing ok, listening to loud music. bored with thinking about the same stuff

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ethSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 2:43 am AEST

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Good for you, braving the dentist again @Mazarita. It used to knock me around too. I have dentures now so don't have to go through it any more.

I'm ok thanks. Crashed out early after 3 glasses of wine with my friend (usually 2 is my limit). Lunch ended up being dinner instead coz she had some stuff come up but it was great when it happened. But my night has been restless since about 1am so I stopped fighting it and came on here.

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MazaritaSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 2:56 am AEST

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Wow, suddenly a new look forum!!!

@plasmo, I hear you on when the thoughts get repetitive. Hope the loud music is helping.

@eth, wonderful to hear you had such a good night with friend. Today I also wrote an email to my psychologist telling her I'm thinking of ending the sessions after our next one and the reasons why. May not hear back from her until we discuss it at the next session in a few weeks. Still feel a bit nervous about doing it. Not in the habit of writing to therapists at all.

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ethSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 2:58 am AEST

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So.... apparently maintenance was just done on the forums. I am now getting a completely different looking page and I don't like it. And some of the links that used to show around the top of the page aren't there. I hope it's temporary. Anyone else having the same thing happen @Mazarita @plasmo ?

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plasmoSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 2:58 am AEST

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yeah forum is so much better like this and faster

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msbertieContributor04 June 2016, 3:02 am AEST

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Hi I had the same thing it has cleared and returned to normal now I just refreshed the link.

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ethSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 3:02 am AEST

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And now it's back to the old look. I wonder what's going on?

@Mazarita I think you were brave to take the plunge and write to the psychologist.

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MazaritaSenior Contributor04 June 2016, 3:03 am AEST

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@eth, yep, it's a bit hard to get used to the change but I think I'll acclimatise. At first glance it seems a bit cluttered, too much information per page.

Doh, and we're back to where we were. Ah, the comfort of what is familiar, hehe.

Hi @msbertie, glad you came here to say hello. 🙂

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