I did for about two years full time. Due to circumstance I’m about to begin again part time and my sleep schedule is already screwed. All the training happens in the daytime too so that sucks. How y’all coping? Staying healthy and doing ok? I’m thinkin about asking my doc if I can try Modafinil whenever it gets started back up but I haven’t researched it enough to know if the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

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      That’s a good recommendation! Currently too broke but I will certainly keep that in mind after I start getting paid.

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    I did 5 years of night shift and it was a really bad thing for my overall mental and physical health. I advise you to be conscious of your caffeine and alcohol intake and to make a concerted effort to eat healthy/regularly, these were my main issues. that and the isolation from friends cause by being on different schedules.

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      Good advice. I remember when I was working all night I was drinking a lot more during the day to help me sleep, bad bad stuff. Also drank energy drinks, one to two every single night, which is no good either. I’m at a point where my taste for alcohol has dwindled to near zero at least. Certainly addicted to caffeine and I have a habit of using nicotine to keep me awake overnight, unfortunately.

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    I’m a 3rd shifter. Most important thing is blackout curtains for sleep. If that doesn’t work then medication may be helpful.

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      Probably. I’m in another boom and bust, “buckling down” stage as it were in my life I think, and will likely be working towards full time, 4 nights a week, 40hrs. My social life always takes a huge, huge hit during these periods but at least I will have money (I’ve been scraping by for months).

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    Just be careful with sleep medication as it can over time make it even harder to sleep if it becomes a crutch and a cursory google says that modafinil can be habit forming so ideally if you can address the sleep problems with other things first it would be healthier.

    I was in bars working till like 6 in the morning for a while and my sleep pattern was fucked and smoked ALOT of the ol’ devil’s lettuce to cope and while it helped me get to sleep, it wasn’t good sleep and it became a crutch that took a lot of time to get over.

    I know it sounds very bs and might not be super helpful but I’ve found that a hot shower or bath before bed if I’m awake can do wonder to help me sleep. I dunno going to bed all clean and warm makes me sleep better than not.

    Hope you are okay Comrade.

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      Good advice, thank you. My personal relationship w/ weed is complicated. It makes me anxious and self-conscious to high hell anymore regardless of how much I use and so I tend to stay away from it. I’ve tried melatonin a few times before and I know some people claim that it’s mostly placebo, that stuff felt like one of the most debilitating drugs I’ve ever taken, to the point where even just standing up about 30 minutes after dosing felt nigh impossible – very wobbly.

      Going to sleep clean is a phenomenal feeling. I even like the way wet/damp hair feels on a pillow lol. My only issue is I feel dysfunctional if I go into work without a shower and my skin is quite sensitive so bathing twice can irritate me pretty bad.

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        Yeah I totally get it, I’m the same but I got myself so hooked on the whole “slows down the cogs” vibe and I was essentially psychologically dependent on it to cope for a while which is ironic because unless I was totally chill and distracted I’d get super anxious when smoking. It’s fine for lots of people but when you’ve got stress and anxiety bouncing around it can and will exacerbate it I’ve found so I ended up chasing the mellow vibe but then getting super anxious I didn’t have enough left or had to get more or wasn’t chill and omg the spiral was real.

        I don’t get coke personally, everyone did it in uni and even now on nights out and parties but I just don’t get whatever rush everyone else seems to get. It just tastes like shit in the back of my mouth and I feel super depressed the next day. Maybe because I’m always drunk when it’s passed around I can’t differentiate the “highs” but honestly I’m glad I never got into it. I remember seeing people NEED it for a night out and it was kinda tragic (I say after all the stuff I just said about weed lol).

        Omg same! It’s like uwu I’m all clean but the wet hair is like cooling but I can snuggle into my duvet and skgkwkfhwh it’s boss.

        Yeah that’s fair, maybe it’s about finding a sleep prep ritual to starting following? Like trick your brain into habitually following a routine before bed hoping that eventually it will stick and aid in proper sleep? Like have a warm milk followed by something or something else etc and eventually once you start doing that routine every time your brain will trick itself into going “oh sleep mode now” but it’s a lot easier said than done lets be honest.

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          I’ve never done coke (never really had the option) but I’d probably try it in the right setting. I had a similar experience with MDMA tho, everyone around me seemed to be having the time of their lives, super open and loving and ecstatic. It felt like a mild kratom high to me, but my medications also probably impacted the experience. Didn’t feel too bad the next day, but it was all just meh. There’s sort of a stigma or pushback that I find kind of understandable to all sorts of illicit drugs among MLs because of their debilitating effects and their historical uses by state departments, but I absolutely adore psychedelics. Mostly just when I’m alone and can think, even though I’ve usually been around people when doing it. I did like 6g psilo once alone and it was an utter nightmare, a nightmare that changed my life in incredible and indescribable ways. At least for a little while. “Ego death” etc etc. I like to use LSD thought spirals to delve into pretty dark systemic issues – stared at a high school once for a while just thinking about how much it looked like a prison and I finally got what that sort of discourse was about. Dialectical materialism also clicked so much more heavily with me whenever I was tripping. When I’m with people they try to keep me from thinking about those things and I try to stay away from them because I don’t want to “kill the vibe”. Which is fine, but the vibe is not my favorite thing about those experiences. DMT was mostly just fun as hell – a waking dream – and I started painting after trying it.

          You’ve certainly got me thinking about setting up a meditation sleep ritual before bed, not something I’d considered before but it seems like it could be very useful. I have been meaning to meditate but keep pushing it off and I think incorporating it that way wouldn’t be too jarring. Thanks comrade.

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            I don’t rate it, i guess it’s what let’s nights carry on longer but in terms of a “high” I didn’t feel it.

            Yeah same with MD for me, in uni I was given some before a night out and it was shit and then people go “oh you didn’t have good stuff” and I’m like well there’s the fucking problem. You just dropped a considerable amount of money on this and now you’re saying it’s just a shit bag?

            Yeah and that’s fair but as with everything I think sometimes ML can get a little purist about matters without considering that people can make their own decisions. It’s how people make those decisions when educated and in a society free from oppression and poverty that will define our relationship with it, not theory crafting online. Like psychedelics I’m in your camp, some experiences have being god awful and I know to stay away from that going forward but then others have honestly helped me process things healthily or giving me a new perspective on matters I’d never considered before. Would I have had those revelations in a ML society? Maybe but I’m not in one and having those experiences helped me deprogram elements of myself that I couldn’t without opening my mind in ways that I think drugs can help with when done in moderation and taken maturely. Mushrooms was a wild one and not even that intense as you can define the intensity with how much you take.

            I guess it’s all about forming a healthy relationship with things vs the historic uses we see but I agree dia mat became so much clearer for me after sitting down and smoking with a ML and discussing things vs soberly “debating” it.

            Give it a go! If a little ritual of actions before bed doesn’t help then at the very least you have a cool healthy ritual to do now. It’s not like there’s a downside to trying it. Ima try to and we can feedback how we do!!

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      In home healthcare for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

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          thanks haha. It’s what I did for two years+ but this is a new place so I’m not sure what they need. Aid with sleeping, preventing bedsores, cleaning, bathroom use, some medication assistance. Then there’s laundry, sweeping, mopping etc. Helping some people out of bed if they like to get up early. Usually a considerable amount of downtime but I’m not allowed to sleep. Used my time before working 12 hours to finish all of Dexter over like 2 months lol. Also read a lot more.