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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 @Mazarita sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. My kids rang me. Life for me at the moment is very similar to what you describe. Didn't get out of bed myself until nearly 2 this afternoon.

Hi @Faith-and-Hope

Not looking forward to tonight. It's Territory Day here and people go absolutely nuts with fireworks. So noisy. They're not supposed to be happening until 6-11pm but some people round here have started already. Not much fun to me. I'm not really a fireworks fan. Don't mind professional displays but when anyone can use them anywhere like tonight it gets dangerous.

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Hi @eth,

Well another big day, i saw an accident in front of me today, a lady ran her trailer into a low leve lroof, did a lot of damage, i was unable to warn her because i froze 😕

still very busy but i am making time for the Friday feast, i want to contribute, hugs to everyone.

hope to see all my forumite family tonight 🙂

Jacques

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Hi @Jacques hoping you are not feeling too much shock from seeing that accident today. At least it sounds like no-one was hurt.

See you on Friday Feast.

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Hi @eth, do you have any earplugs? I would probably consider them if they were on hand. I often have them around to help with situations like that but haven't needed to use them for quite a while. If not now, something to consider for the future. Those simple foam ones don't block out all noise but just reduce the intensity of it, which can give us a bit of a breather from disturbance. Remember to breathe deeply if you can. Will be thinking of you tonight and sending calming vibes.

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Thanks @Mazarita No I forgot to get earplugs. But I did get some wine! Not going driving again to get earplugs as fireworks are already happening around my neighbourhood. I don't think it's safe to take the car out again. Will be breathing deeply quite a lot tonight I think! And staying on-line most likely. How was the rest of your day?

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Hi @eth, @Mazarita, @Jacques, @Faith-and-Hope

just dropped in to say hi. Sorry to hear about seeing the accident @Jacques. I think I would freeze too. Enjoy Friday feast.

@eth @Mazarita I'm thinking of you both with your tough run at the moment. Good luck with the psychiatrist @Mazarita. Hopefully you'll have a good outcome.

@Faith-and-Hope I really wanted to send you a checklist tonight because there would actually be a few ticks for the first time since I moved in. There would still be x too.

I still haven't showered since Monday but about to now. I had to make the choice today of meeting my phams worker smelling ok or clearing enough stuff out the way so I could find her a seat, chose the latter but feel ok as I now have a dining room I can move in and a table and chairs to sit at😊 The meeting went well and support worker seems nice. I have also managed the most even day for weeks and am going to attempt to go out in the really real and see a friend tonight. I think talking to everyone and my therapist helped yesterday. Thanks so much to you all and @Appleblossom and @Decadian too. I know I have been so intense and worked up over things but feel more at peace right now, and tumultuous Thursday has passed for another week😊

Sending hugs to you all😊💜

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@Mazarita I hope your appointment goes well tomorrow too. Feel free to talk about it if you want to.

@Former-Member so glad to hear you had a better day today and are feeling up to going out tonight. Hope you have a great evening.

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@eth, just saw a friend on Facebook refer to territory day as 'blow s**t up day' so I feel for you. Hoping that it's not too bad where you are. Staying online sounds like a plan. Thinking of you😊💜

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Hi @Former-Member, so great to hear you had a better, more productive day and that you like your Phams worker. How often will you be getting to see them? Awesome that you are going out tonight, enjoy!

@eth, rest of the day so far has been watching Star Trek Voyage, good episode I hadn't seen before. Also just had some pizza for dinner. I don't have much to say about psychiatrist appointment tomorrow and not a lot of energy to think right now, though it could be helpful to write down here some of the things I want to talk to him about. Maybe a bit later. Either way, likely to have more news after the appointment tomorrow. What else have you been up to today aside from sleeping?

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Thanks @Mazarita. Probably weekly maybe fortnightly. See her next Friday at this stage😊

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