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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor23 Sept 2015, 4:13 am AEST

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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Unknown userMember03 July 2016, 1:45 am AEST

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Goodnight @Faith-and-Hope. I hope you sleep well.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor03 July 2016, 1:51 am AEST

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So, so glad you pulled up from that @Former-Member, and pulled through ...

I have a personal belief that says you can't conceal the truth indefinitely ... it will always work its way back out into view eventually ...

Your boys will have the clear understanding of where the integrity lies, or was absent, in your situation, and that you tried the best you knew how. It teaches them strength by example. There will be gifts in it for the future that are hard to recognise in the here and now.

❤️

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Unknown userMember03 July 2016, 1:59 am AEST

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Im sure there is a ditto in there for life lessons @Faith-and-Hope. I really hope so as far as my boys learning he right lessons. Just lastly there were so many reasons why I didn't cope so well with it. They have mostly come out in personality (disorder) traits that were always there playing their part in self destruction. I was thinking about your last post too. It's interesting that WH can identify parts but not the whole yet. At least he's talked about it with you. I'll let you go. Goidnight

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Unknown userMember03 July 2016, 2:01 am AEST

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Must be more tired than I thought so many typos. Goodnight 😊💜💐

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Unknown userMember03 July 2016, 2:25 am AEST

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@Mazarita. I'm so sorry. I guess I was so self absorbed and anxious getting my stuff out I neglected to respond to yours. Thanks for sharing your story about your parents and your relationship too. It must have been a really difficult, unstable and unpredictable life for you as a child and for your mum. Strength to you to be able to work through it with your mum. It does help to know what has defined our suffering here I think.
I guess I struggle to define mine as trauma as it happened as an adult and I had choices. I didn't chose it to happen but I chose the destination which didn't work out so well. You had no choice in your suffering. It always makes me feel sad to hear of childhood experiences of abuse. Anyway thinking of you😊💜

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KurraSenior Contributor03 July 2016, 4:47 am AEST

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Hi Everyone,

I've just lobbed home from a "the election is a good excuse ' party. I was out with some of my workmates. It was a great night with a lot of laughter, heckling one another in a nice way and yak yak yak all night long.

I worked with these people all last year and they really are a fabulous mob. Sticking with the meds, therapy and all the doctors visits has really paid off. It may have taken 25 years but I'm really glad I managed to see it through.

@Former-Member When I was unwell I used to collapse in a heap after a busy day. I learnt to do one thing at a time. For housework I do one thing a day or one room per day.
I also would check to make sure that I only had one appointment on any given day

Hope this helps.

I've got rehearsals today so I'd better get some shut eye out.

Take care,
Love to you all

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor03 July 2016, 6:37 am AEST

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Yes @Mazarita, I didn't mean to ignore what you were sharing with us either ....

I feel so badly for kids caught in the middle, and hope that ours are shielded somewhat from the family history of war trauma. It makes me more determined to try to stop that family trauma history from rolling forward into our kids .... I have seen it flow on to the kids of my MIL's siblings .... and mi issues are everywhere there .... often triggered or exacerbated by drug use.

There is that powerful need for the kids to love their parents regardless though, and hearing it expressed, as you have done @Mazarita shows that it is necessary and worthwhile to keep that focus on empathy in there .... to keep "loving the sinner, not the sin" so to speak ...

And yet, as your kids have shown @Former-Member, there also comes a point of signing off, when the whole situation is out there for what it is, and the person themselves refuses to step up to the resonsibility of sorting themselves out and facing up to the consequences ....

Big hugs to both of you ❣

And to @eth ... supporting her child through their personal choices which are confronting in a different way .... not easy, especially extreme surgery ... ❣

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Unknown userMember03 July 2016, 7:35 am AEST

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Good morning 💐

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ethSenior Contributor03 July 2016, 8:24 am AEST

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Good morning @Former-Member and anyone else around.

@Appleblossom sorry I closed down so fast last night. I guess I felt like I had said too much. There hasn't been anyone IRL I've been able to tell about that issue. As soon as it was out I just got swamped with exhaustion here, maybe a kind of shock reaction to seeing it in writing. Anyway thanks for your response. You didn't rock the boat at all.

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Angels333Senior Contributor03 July 2016, 9:57 am AEST

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Good morning @eth @Former-Member @Appleblossom

I went to work with a migraine yesterday, I couldn't take another Saturday off it would be unfair to the special kids I teach.

I have the same migraine again today and I didn't go to church.

My psychiatrist reduced my night time antipsychotic and increased my daytime one.

Does anyone think it could be the change.

It's a bona-fide migraine....

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