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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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Night @Mazarita. Will be thinking of you tomorrow. Sleep well💜😊😴

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Sorry I keep missing you on here @utopia. I hope you have lovely birthday celebrations tomorrow. Enjoy and I hope you sleep well. 💜😊😴

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What's everybody's plans for tomorrow? I should go to work, but I really don't want to. Should also clean house/ do laundry etc but not up for that either. A book in the bath sounds good right now

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I think my list of shoulds looks like yours @Blackclouds I am not working but have LOTS of housework and things to do. Not really sure what I'll actually do though. Do you work full time?

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@Former-Member yeah sort of. I am supposed to be full time but only work 4 days a week. Lately my average has been 3, this week it's 1. Not the best. I have tried working with my employer but 4 is the best they can offer, 3 is mine ha. We are at an impossible point I guess. I'm the only one that can do my job, so however many days I have off I have to make up the work, so I just end up in a cycle of exhaustion. I need to quit, but that's making me feel worthless. So I've retreated into myself and am not ready to come out yet

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I just saw your other post and replied @Blackclouds. I totally understand the retreating into yourself. I've mastered that over a lifetime😔

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Isn't it the worst? And you get so good at the mask on your face that people have no idea. My work would have absolutely no idea just how miserable I am. How do we get so good at pretending everything is ok?

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The weirdest part @Blackclouds is even the people who do know about my diagnosis don't ever really know how I'm feeling because the mask often comes on automatically to protect them. But on here you can let it out and it helps. Even the dark stuff sometimes.

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I think that's often the thought that goes through my head, if I can't deal with this how can I I load it on my partner/ family etc and how will they cope? Always makes me clam up. Reading other people's stories on the site, and seeing so much in common. Glad I found this place I might get somewhere yet

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I lived a lie and was in denial.

It was not until I started having days off work, then I certainly knew my life were controlled by something I had no control over.

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