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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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Unknown userMember13 June 2016, 4:02 pm AEST

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Yay @Faith-and-Hope re massage. Catch ya all later😊💜

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cometSenior Contributor13 June 2016, 4:52 pm AEST

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Hi @Former-Member. You have absolutely no need to apologise. I don't own a computer & was waiting for phone to charge (only had a smart phone for couple of months). Got it to help with my total isolation. Really, the only people I talk to are psychiatrist & go. Had a manic episode in 2013 which resulted in family not talking to me. (Only have 21 yr old daughter, who lives interstate & leads a happy life and a brother who is 10 years my senior, who I have never been close to...who along with my deceased mother used to lock me in a wardrobe when I was a young child). Apparently I was a difficult child....have claustrophobia now. My darling daughter & I exchange sporadic letters. I am very proud of her!!! She, my brother, and my ex-partner sent texts on my b'day which was nice. I have zero communication skills (because I don't & no interests or passions at all). I have been pensioned off & feel totally worthless. Everyday is boredom & loneliness. Medications leave me flat & lifeless. Other bad stuff in my life also. Stuck in a house I stupidly bought 3 months prior to being involuntarily admitted to mental health unit & diagnosed with schizo affective disorder. Which was later changed to bipolar. First saw a psychiatrist 13 years before this &was diagnosed with depression. Have I said too much (chuckle). I think of death daily, but am too stupid to know how to achieve it, having failed previously several times.... You are a bit like my cat teej, purr sistent. But you got some stuff out of me, for which I thankyou. Sending best wishes to you & everyone here.

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Unknown userMember13 June 2016, 5:28 pm AEST

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Hi @comet,

First up your communication skills are great, you made me giggle (being like your cat) and cry in your post. I also see your sense of humour and your kindness and compassion. A few likes around the place on people's posts revealed this.

I'm only happy for you posting that if you are ok with it and have no regrets. I'd hate to think I made someone share something they weren't ready for.

I have/am very much in similar places to you with thoughts of death and attempts before. In the last few weeks they are becoming less but some parts of some days are still very present. For pretty much 2 years I also only talked to my therapist and GP. Sometimes I saw my GP twice a week and I'm really grateful they were both there for me. My stuff is only 5 years young really although much of it went undiagnosed for years. Suicide ideation has been happening on and off since I was 20.

I'm really sorry that you've had such a rough life. I'm glad that you have a good relationship with your daughter, I think it helps a lot to be able to communicate with our kids although it's hard at this age when they have such independent lives. I don't have experience with medications to know how much they knock you around but by all that I've read it must make things harder. I hope that by you participating here we can help alleviate the boredom and maybe you'll find something you'll become passionate about. I am the worst at hobbies. They sound great but I give up easily or get bored and change my mind. I'm trying to maintain an interest in gardening but it's an on and off love affair.

I hope being like your cat is a good thing😊

Take care and hope to chat soon😊💜

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cometSenior Contributor13 June 2016, 5:52 pm AEST

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Dear @Former-Member. You are special. Thank you for that. Brought a tear to my eye & a smile to my face. You know I think highly of my cat!!!

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SnuchuSenior Contributor13 June 2016, 7:03 pm AEST

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Anyone awake? 🙂

I just slept for 3 hours, which is a record as of recently. Woohoo!

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Angels333Senior Contributor13 June 2016, 7:16 pm AEST

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Hi @Shaz51 @Appleblossom @Draco @Former-Member @eth @Former-Member @Jacques @BlueBay @MoonGal @Mazarita @PeppiPatty @Faith-and-Hope @Snuchu @Decadian

I just thought I'd send you all a hello.

Love

@Angel333

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MoonGalSenior Contributor13 June 2016, 7:28 pm AEST

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Heya @Angels333 lovely to hear from you. How're you travellin?

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BlueBaySenior Contributor13 June 2016, 7:28 pm AEST

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Hi @Angels333@Mazarita@Snuchu@comet@Former-Member@Faith-and-Hope

Damn computers, I just typed a reply and lost it all.

@Angels333 how have you been? did you do much today?

@Snuchu that is so good that you managed to get some quality sleep.

I ended up having a good day. After lots of anxiety and anger this morning for not being able to go for my walk this morning, I ended up knitting my scarf. But in the afternoon my husband came home from work and we went to have a coffee with our oldest son. Hubby and I ended up walking home (15 mins) and our son drove home.

I even managed to cook dinner, and I even got outside and picked up all the leaves in our drive way.

Feeling a bit anxious about my psych's session tomorrow and my negative destructive thoughts. I think i will show him the paper that I wrote down my thoughts.

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SnuchuSenior Contributor13 June 2016, 7:49 pm AEST

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@BlueBay, thanks! I'm pretty proud of myself.

I'm glad you had a better day, you've been struggling lately and I'm sorry to read about that.

How far are you at with the scarf? 🙂

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BlueBaySenior Contributor13 June 2016, 7:53 pm AEST

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Hey @Snuchu

I'm about 1/2 way. It is really thick, I can't wait to finish it now so I can wear it. I really love the colours, orange in it and is a favourite colour of mine.

You are doing well @Snuchu, keep going. 🙂 Proud of you. take care

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