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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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Good morning!

Hope you're all going to have a lovely day!

Big hugs xox

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You too @Former-Member hope you have a great day too!!!

take care xxoo

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Hi @Mazarita @Faith-and-Hope @comet,

thanks so much for your concern 💜, it meant a lot😊.

Update :

I'm still here ✅ ( can't get rid of me that easily yet 😝)

I'm not and haven't been in hospital ✅

My mood is strangely okay🙂 but I was/am pretty messed up, anxious and a bit paranoid😁

So so sorry to hear you are still struggling a bit with depression @Mazarita, I'm crossing fingers today is better for you. I'm about to do the unthinkable and wash my bed linen, it's so overdue. Dog even shares my pillow these days so I'm a bit desperate.

I hope your dad comes home today @Faith-and-Hope and is ok. Really glad you've had time to relax. My son and his girlfriend are moving in with me next week. Things hit crisis point so it will be interesting, finally a girl but now there will be 2 of us with MI in my house so it could get fun!!!

@comet How are you, looks like you've been quiet on here so I hope you are feeling ok. If your feeling ok please let me know what you've been up to. Been thinking of you as I've been listening to music in the first time for ages, and for me I've fallen in love with a dark song that I can't get out of my head. I managed to add 7 songs to my 2016 playlist which now has 8 songs, the least amount of music I've had for years. I keep a playlist for every year of what I've loved and listen to.

Hi to @eth (it had you at the bottom of the drop down list YAY.) I saw your hello. I hope you are doing ok.

Saying Hi to everyone else too. I hope your day is ok and the weather is being kind to you where ever you are.

Sending hugs to you all 😊💜

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Awesome to see you, @Former-Member. I'm also thinking of @eth but hadn't sent out a call because I didn't think I'd be able to tag her. Now I see that bug seems to have been fixed. Another awesome. Hi @eth! Me, I'm not so awesome. Still in dressing gown and pajamas from days ago. Still sleeping weirdly and too much. Cancelling out on appointments. Yay me (not). But at least I'm here for a bit today. Not sure when I'll run out of writing steam. If I suddenly drop off, don't worry about me. It might mean I've managed to drag my sorry sack into the shower and am doing something useful in the really real. Or I might be asleep. Either way, I'll be okay. Sometimes these things are a waiting game with me. Sending good vibes to everyone, hoping you are doing way better than me at the moment.

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Hi @Mazarita,

I hope your medication change helps soon, l feel for you. Ashamed to say it but I had five days last week in the same cloths and ugg boots with out showering or changing😳. Even slept in ugg boots as it felt too hard to take them off some nights🤔. And my great plan for washing sheets just fell in a hole as the weather has changed😁. Yesterday I forgot how to make a cup of tea😁 Anyway feeling for you and really hope you see a change soon, sending hugs💜

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Thanks @Former-Member. You're not alone. I'm still in dressing gown and pajamas I've had on for days. Sending hugs back. (A good thing it's virtual hugs in our current state, hehe). A challenge for us both today: a shower and a change of clothes. (The other challenge is to keep as cheerful as possible if we don't manage it).

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Hi @Mazarita @Former-Member @comet @Kurra and anyone else who's here in Smellytown ..... 😊

I'm three days out from a shower - taking my R&R seriously - and relying on the mystical powers of deodorant to get by so far ....but Dad is apparently coming home this afternoon ..... and if he can get his butt into the shower with a wonky knee .... well ..... I'm all out of excuses ❣

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I have to admit

There are times when I don't want to take my clothes off - I hate the shower in cold weather - or rather - it's a small shower recess - and I don't like putting my hand in cold water to start heating up the water coming out of the rose thing - summer - not a problem - winter - there are time when I would rather stand in the rain - last night I got soaked taking the bins out - easy to get in the shower after that

Count me in I guess

@Faith-and-Hope@Mazarita@Former-Member - I've missed a few - I like the mystical powers of deoderant - I'm gunna write that in my note book

Decadian

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@Mazarita I love @Faith-and-Hope concept. Perhaps we are just taking our R&R seriously 😀💜. Puts a lot of very positive spin on it😊💜. I hope all goes well for your dads return home @Faith-and-Hope. Keep up the R&R😊💜.

Loved the virtual hugs regarding smell factor too @Mazarita. It's soooooooo true. My son was begging me to shower☺️

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"SMELLYTOWN" hahah!😐😄😄 "YOU LAZY THING!" my dad use to say when I'd lay around too much. What does it matter if we don't shower? really?. You know, in aged care the standard was a minimum of once a week (top & tail in between) but even then if a patient refused - they had the right to (within reason of cause), crazy world we live in. We usually. Its just so cold today :). But i do FEEL better after a hot soapy shower. Saturday's my cleansing day for such things, so if I'm bad all week & lose track of things - there's a time it happens regardless.

Woke to a Crazy Dream my piano got stolen today
Weird!
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