Bring us your worries, big or small! The nightshift will hold them so you can sleep

[2018SoFarSoGreat]

Well, that LAST THREAD filled up much faster - so glad so many of us are finding this a place of comfort. How lucky we are to have so many of us on standby to hold our fears and worries, so that we can rest.

No questions asked, no solutions given, just the offer of a place to lay down our burdens. All are welcome.

No they'll evict. This is clearing your property for free; social services have told them I'm not allowed mental health support anymore so that's it. I'm gone. I won't survive on the street again .

Why do people think PTSD is just a bit of anxiety??? It's so not!!

So I've emailed one of the fire officers more details.

Opened the GP letters I've had this week. All asking me to phone. IVE BEEN RINGING EVERY DAY FOR A MONTH!! Then there's the one saying I still have a social worker and that's been confirmed, they phone every week to support me, and in a crisis I can ring them. Except today they told my landlord I don't and I can't. And when i tried, in crisis, they had a go at me for wasting their time! For anyone working in that sort of job - THAT'S NOT HELPFUL.

This weekend is mental health day and every year they put a massive display up for their services. All over social media and in person in town. Every year it hurts and more and more.

My head is killing me I need to eat something to have meds and get a GP, social services and landlord notes all done as well as get to sleep and up at 6am.

I feel completely overwhealmed.
My PTSD has never been this bad, not even when it started.

Ok two letters. Bullet pointe. GP and SS. Landlord can be dealt with by others. Need rest urgently. Will pop back when done to watch anyone's worries!

Becca I hope you have eaten and are now asleep. I can take your worries tonight and through the day. I hope you can tackle your load in chunks that are manageable.

Ah there you are @Becca19962014 let me squish your thoughts tonight. Go on. Get some sleep. Relax now. You are off duty. Get comfy, wrap yourself up and find sleep. You have done enough tonight. Let me take all the worry, go on, I’ve got it.

My baby won't sleep and I've spent the past year sleep deprived. We thought we had cracked it recently but she's regressing...

Not sleep. Letter not going well. Keep going off on an unhelpful tangent. I'm so frightened. It doesn't help. Need to get it done as otherwise I'll need to get up even earlier. Already had one seizure today.

Ok I've done GP letter. Asking what's going on and for meds. Took five minutes, it'll do. Going to try and leave this here with you.

I have received the paperwork from my 4 yo’s nursery to read and finish off, for both a referral for ASD/ADHD and a request of an EHCP assessment.
He is bilingual (I’m EU born) so his problems had been attributed to his speech delay until recently, but it turns out that in nursery he doesn’t play with other children, is hyperactive and unfocused, wanders away at circle time and is working at a 26-36 level for everything except numbers and gross motor skills. Had a meeting with the manager and there have been talks of suggesting a school with a resource unit (I didn’t even know of their existence). I can’t sleep worrying what the future will be for him and pondering whether I should move back to my home country as here I feel unable to navigate the system. In the meantime he’s peacefully asleep next to me and he is hugging me. I am actually crying now.

@BrainNotAvailableTryAnotherOne Let me watch your worry for you. Curl up with your son, trusting for now someone is watching this for you and get some rest. Even if you can't sleep rest is good. Soon it'll be light and that's a time for dealing. Try rest and leave this with me for now.

Thank you so much @Becca19962014 will try

@theworldhasgoneinsane you poor thing #. Lack of sleep is torture, literally. For now, give us the Worry and cozy in again. Just try to sleep, if you can. When you can. We have the worries.

Mines pathetic but I feel so ugly right now. I'm so overweight and my teeth are so wonky it's really getting me down. DD has had her night feed and is asleep but I can't seem to drift off...

Ah @bubblebath62636 that's a horrible way to feel. I'm guessing your DD is quite little, so your body and hormones have been very busy. Making a new human! Can't you see how amazing that body is? You are amazing.

Anyway, snuggle in. Leave it all with us, and get some sleep. It's OK. Just cozy. It's goung to be ok.

I woke up at 3am because my daughter had a nightmare. She's in bed with us now, kicking me in the back of the head. I'm 31 weeks pregnant and the baby was very quiet yesterday (it was our wedding day (!) so I was distracted) so I've just been poking my bump and wondering if he's wriggling sufficiently to put my mind at ease.

My current Wide Awake worry is that I'm pretty sure there's a bloody RAT in my house. Woke up to evidence of one in our utility room yesterday morning and put a trap down, but I've just heard clattering in our dining room and now I'm lying in bed, feeling equal parts horrified and nauseous. We're going on a mini-honeymoon tomorrow so the house will be empty for two days. Will the rats take over? Get in the food cupboards?Come upstairs? Change the locks?

I'm so tired.

@Mybobowler what a lot you have going on, congrats on the baby, the wedding but not on your guest 😩

I don't know how, but you really should try to rest now. Cuddle in, ear plugs if need be, and ignore it all until you feel more rested. If you can leave all this with us. We shall hold it until it you are rested. We have it now. It's OK.

Didn't sleep at all in the end. Just too scared.

hi @Becca19962014 I'm just checking in on you today. Sorry you didn't sleep! I'll hold your worries and fears for the rest of the day/night so that you don't have to. Go on, pass them over.

I'm going to have a large Gin & Tonic (I have fancy flavored gin to try) as it is my birthday, so shall definitely squish any and all worries when I finally go to bed - so come on people. Pass them over!

Not slept but have had seizures so I guess that's rest?! Have been sent email exchange with social worker. It's gossip. I can't believe they've contacted landlord and won't help me

@2018SoFarSoGreat thankyou hoping they'll stay with you. Need to go to bed. Am so exhausted.

Becca19962014 how your are now asleep as I type this. I'm passing by and thought I'd add my care to the pile. Watching over you and guarding your peace.

How=hope.

Thanks @TopCatsTopHat I managed a couple of hours. Sounds like nothing but it really was!!

Pleased to hear it. If you felt it counted it counts!

Still struggling and wishing I'd never done thread on here.
Nothing to get better from is there when social worker telling everyone I'm fine. I'm so frightened.

Still around keeping an eye for anyone annoying worries!