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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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Hi @Former-Member, day was fine, caught up on sleep in bursts, showered, had medical appointment which was quick and easy as it turned out (breastscreen). Visited a friend this evening for dinner. Had Japanese from a local take away, yum. A pretty good day really. Glad your psych appointment was more solemn than hard hardsy.

@plasmo, Q & A: what's the topic? I never watch it. TV in general is too boring for me too usually. I'm not even watching Game of Thrones. Partner is. I'm just hearing blood and guts sounds and war and the usual stuff in it.

@eth, sorry you are down and still exhausted. Hope the psychiatrist might have some suggestions on Saturday on how to help that. By the way, I can take a guess as to why the tagging only seems to work on your name when you are active in a thread. I think it could be to do with your username being only 3 letters long. When you are active in a thread, people are tagging you from a drop down menu. When you're not, tagging you doesn't work. That's how it seems at my end anyway. I've seen problems with very short names on other social media sites too. Not sure how this could be fixed though, @NikNik?

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@Mazarita just turnbull on tonight, i'm not taking it in, jusr waffle

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My gut reaction was that it was something to do with the 3 letters as well @eth @Mazarita

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No wonder you're bored @plasmo. Anything from a politician in the lead up to an election would put anyone to sleep. Maybe that's what I should try tonight if I can't sleep.

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I was thinking it was probably something like that @Mazarita. Hopefully the techs can do something about it, otherwise unless I'm on every few hours or even more frequently I am missing some people's attempts to include me or talk to me and I don't want it to seem like I am ignoring them.

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@Former-Member yeah its probably on iview.. i just stop following, i dont take it in

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Glad your day went well in the end @Mazarita would have preferred Japanese but got pizza ( @plasmo) for my son but it was meat lovers and these days I am much more vegetarian so I left it to him.

How are you feeling about your psych appointment @eth

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yeah meat can get overdone on pizza

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You can set up a daily digest or a weekly digest. @eth

I am far too old to expect instant responses.

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@Former-Member I'm having mixed feelings about it. This week has been so different from the previous 2 months or so and the referral is really all about what was happening then. I had been very low all day and a bit high at night for ages and now I'm not having the highs. Hard to imagine that just 4 nights away would leave me this exhausted all the time. Anyway all I can do is tell him what's happening and see what he says. I feel a bit nervous about him and can't quite find words to describe why. I have another week to wait so will see if things stay the same or go back to how it's been until I went away.

It seems you had a psych appointment of some sort today too. Was it psychologist or psychiatrist? How did it go? (I haven't had a chance to read all the posts since yesterday morning yet).

Hi @Appleblossom sorry but I don't know what you mean or how to do it or how I would use it - never heard of it before. Hope you are well. Have you started seeing the counsellor yet?

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