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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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That's important @Snuchu

I quit smoking ordinary cigarettes well over 10 years ago - I was only a social smoker - but that is the hardest kind to give up - so I would imagine that social green smoking would have the same effect

My daughter and her whole family smoke - except for the kids - and I am the only one there not smoking - and maybe that's why I don't get to see them very often

But one day I decided to quit and I did - but then I lost some friendships - or I thought they were friendships

But I made other friends -

So - I won't pull any punches here - I don't do that - it will be hard to give up green smoke if everyone of your friends smoke it -

But you will find new ones - the world will be different too - or it was for me when I stopped smoking tobacco

Decadian

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Thanks @Former-Member

Just keep swimming ....... 🐠🐟🐠🐟🐬 ......... you will get there, and so will I ........ we all will ❣

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Good morning @Decadian @BlueBay 💜

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Good morning you guys!

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Just on my way out @Snuchu 😊

Good morning, and I will catch you later .....

Good luck with Project Green today ❣

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Thanks, @Faith-and-Hope!

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Hi @Former-Member, @Faith-and-Hope, @Decadian and anyone else around,

Just stopping in briefly before my support worker arrives to say good morning and hope today is a good one for everyone. I read what you were going through last night when I was out, @Former-Member. Awesome that you made it through without resorting to SH. I think you are maybe being a bit too hard on yourself again when you say that you shouldn't need external help with this. Getting to a point of complete self reliance with it may take time and in the interim there are people who are willing and able to help. I also really encourage you not to think of contacting Lifeline as a failure. To me it sounds like you were in a real crisis and that's what they are there for. So glad there were others around online when you were going through it. Hugs and

Uke class today with support worker. Will be back later, probably after napping at the end of uke. I seem to always need to sleep after activities at the moment, probably because I'm still not getting enough sleep at night. Anyway, in pretty good spirits this morning. See you all later.

p.s. @Former-Member, I finished the last of my three pamper challenges last night with a foot massage. Very nice. 🙂

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Those paintings or collages are great pp

I can read the Greek script to - sort of - cause it's actually in English - I think - sort of

Dec

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Hi Teej. How ya going?..Yet again some really worthwhile words expressed by others this morning. Think you have to look at it as you beat it last night which can only be described as a success. Really hope you are feeling better today! As much as I dislike big drug companies, Swisse make a product called 'Sleep'. Non-addictive, natural tablets. They have worked for me in the past...Hope you're in a better place today, maybe outside enjoying a cuppa playing with that dog of yours. May you find some pleasure today. Keep well, best wishes.

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Thanks @comet. I'm still blown away by your and everyone else's support last night. You were so fast to jump in, thanks. I'm feeling pretty crappy and fragile still but I'll get over it. I think PMS is attributing a fair bit too. I hope I can be there for you too next time you are struggling. When I get down to this point I can't even face my dog who I had to lock out of my room last night😔 but he slept with my son so he still got loved. I did crash last night which was good and thanks for the tip. I did write another post today which was removed by the moderators, first one of mine moderated. It's back up now slightly edited. I really thank you for your concern and support. I hope your day is going well😊💜

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