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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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But in a belated response @comet to your answer in music. I have a greatest of album of nick cave and his album Dig, Lazarus,Dig. I don't listen to music much since my breakdown as I just became this emotional nutcase. When I'm ok I listen to it. I have a fairly varied and strange taste in music from Aussie hip hop to world music. Not into heavy metal or heavy rock much. I only have a couple of albums I can listen to no matter what and they are relatively unknown world music albums.

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Thanks for sharing your day stuff @comet. I havent got as far as you today. Had a drive but not got out the car. Sorry your brother hasn't responded to your texts. Are you close with him now? I'm willing to swap my dog with your cat for a while, you can't stop him playing. He is a real ball centric dog. He brings a ball to everyone who enters the house, kind of embarrassing really. Last hug was one of the most amazing hugs for me only a few weeks back. It was from one of my ex's victims and we had not seen each other for over 5 years since before all was revealed. She came up to me at football and hugged me and we hugged for about 30 seconds with out saying a word but so much emotion was conveyed in that hug. I am so grateful. We still haven't spoken about it. Right now it seems ok not to. Sorry so much for no more of my stuff. I hope you don't mind chatting here 😊💜

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I have a lot of CD's @Former-Member. From Nina Simone to hilltop hoods ('The nosebleed section'. Listening to music is most important to me. My cd's were the cause of problems with daughter & ex. Became manic & saw solicitors to get them back after I loaned them in 2013....not a good time!

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We have all the hilltop hoods albums and Bliss'n'esso too @comet. They became our family go to music. I actually think that I introduced the boys to it. Love the nose bleed section. I tend to listen to Triple J these days if I listen to the radio. Current fave band is Gang of Youths. I do change my music fairly regularly and not one to go back to old stuff frequently. But I do have some old favourites most old rock stuff. What are your favourites?

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Oops sorry you had a hard time with your music @comet My ex has all of CDs still. I just haven't gone to sort it out but I had all my music on computer.

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Shout out to @eth. I really hope you are OK!!! We miss your insightful posts...thinking of you!....@Teej I'd love to borrow your dog & play ball, I really would. The 3 artists that I have the most CDs : Bob Dylan, Ex Kuepper & Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey. Bliss n esso my daughter likes. And she likes Rufus & Flume. She is going to splendour in the grass...I live her,..,don't know gang of youths. I bought tame impala

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The nosebleed section good song. Does it have the opposite reaction to the one I mentioned?

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Love Rufus @comet. Don't mind Flume. It was nice to chat. Dog driving me crazy now and I have to do something. Haven't even had a coffee or taken Meds yet. My bad. It was too cold so I went back to bed. It sounds lovely to be able to be in shorts. I hope you find some joy in the rest of your day ? Catch ya later😊💜

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Yeah probably in reference to your above question @comet. I have a couple of really dark songs too. Have to be sad but not suicidal to listen to them. One of them is 'the darkest side' by an Australian band called 'the middle east'

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Don't mind Tame Impala. Loved their hit song, name eludes me, from last year but the middle bit would drive me crazy. I do quite like some of their other stuff though @comet. Written while making coffee and having delayed thinking. I'm guessing you've worked out by now I do that a bit, even worse in real life conversations so there's something to be grateful for😝😳😊💜.

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