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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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Oops. Forgot the always there with a heart to give @Faith-and-Hope. Glad to see you're travelling ok at the moment. Fingers crossed this weekend goes smoothly

@comet, I have a quiet weekend. One son has a bye in football, I may catch the other. I haven't really ventured out of bed for three days so I'll not be doing much. This is the first time I've made its this far without hospital although there has been some touch and go with that. Hopefully I'll make it through now. Coming back on here hopefully will help too. My biggest plan is to maybe venture out and buy some silicon to fix the toilet. Have you any plans? Take care😊💜

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You know what @comet. I realised that I didn't know that after I posted. Then I changed it. Obviously you saw. I'm so sorry. It makes no difference to me😊💜

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Thanks for clarifying that @comet ..... I was likely to keep referring to you in the feminine for a while before I got that ...... 😏

My bad ! 💭

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@Former-Member a bit slow here, just did some stuff online and went out for a walk. tryingnto get myself interested in doing a course or somethingn to get out more. keep feeling im not doing enough

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Hi @Former-Member @Mazarita @Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member @eth @comet @NikNik

I'm exhausted. The day ended not bad although I am feeling so down. I just want to hide away from the world and if it was forever it would be good.

I feel like i am coming down with a cold. maybe this is my body's way of telling me to take a break, have a few days off and rest. I have to work tomorrow, which is really making me angry because i don't normally work on saturday's.

I feel so used and taken not seriously about my mental health. Often makes me wonder what would my so called friends do if i did do something.

I'm sorry I am needing to get away from everything. my life is just one big mess at the moment. hubby is so stressed with mother in law's stuff reg. centrelink and aged care. it's so complicatred i can't handle anymore stress. he is not coping either.

so it's a family of stress and depression and anxiety. my youngest son is leaving in 9 days to go overseas for a short holiday on his own. more stress and anxiety for me while he's away.

sorry i have just written all this stuff on here, it's the wrong spot to put all this.

hope you all have a good night. don't know what i will do.

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@BlueBay

I'm glad the day ended not bad.

Sounds like a good night to find a distraction like a favourite movie, or a bubble bath maybe ? It usually movie night around here on a Friday night, especially old favourites ......

Try to postpone the worries for tonight @BlueBay . Your son will be going away, but not just yet, so it would be nice for him to have some family time together with you tonight, even if it's a just-okay night and nothing super-special .......

Sending hugs your way ..... this might have been just the place to post tonight to win the hugs jackpot ❣

@comet

I think I found a comet ........ 💫 ........ or maybe it's just a moving star ....... no, wait ........ is that what a comet is .....?? 😊

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Oh I forgot to thank @mrkotter for your thoughtful post the other night. I hope your doing well.

@comet I'd still like to hear how GROW went. Yes I'll still be 'purr sistent' too😜. Glad to meet your cat comet too. 😊💜

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Big hug from me @BlueBay. I'm watching dvd to distract myself "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" So relate to that character. Do you have a favourite movie?

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Comet is Totally fine. Me on the other hand........@Teej and @Faith-and- Hope.....Seriously, good news you haven't needed hospital...am such a slow typist will have to go back & read posts I've missed. Hello everyone...You are all awesome. As the pm does, I would describe myself as being a feminist if that's at all relevant...had a feminist mother. Shall be listening/ watching rugby league tonight. Missy Higgins singing 'shark fin blues' is one of my most favourite songs...ever.

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Hi @BlueBay,

Sorry to hear you are feeling so down and stressed. On top of that, a stressed household and a cold. Perhaps it could be a reasonable time to call in sick to work if you are not feeling better in the morning. You said in one of your posts after seeing your psychiatrist recently that you may be going into hospital at some time before long. I do hope this can happen for you soon as you seem to want and need that. You said above that you wonder what your friends would do if you really 'did do something'. Then at the end of your post you said you don't know what you will do. If you are still feeling this way later in the night, I would suggest it might be time to contact Lifeline, either by chat or on the phone.

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http://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/Online-Services/crisis-chat

Sending more hugs your way.

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