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Anyone else here try to get in as many naps as you can during the week or weekend? Is it an alkie thing? I am thinking maybe so.... so many fried emotional receptors, and a much lower threshold for stress, well, at least for me. When I first got sober, was like I had a paper bag over my head for 15 years, and then oce the booze wore off, someone just YANKED the bag off my head, and everything was so bright and noisey!!!  LOL

I do feel more easily exhausted than a lot of "normal" people I know... is there anyone here who is NOT a napper? At least once in awhile???? Does life wear you out soemtimes?

Curious........................................yawn


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I love napping when I can.. Power napping.. lol I can get by on so much.. I remember especially when I was doing Camp Sunnyside in 96 & ever since I have had an uncanny nack for sleeping the exact time allotted for any of my breaks. Very uncanny lol Glad to know you're looking after yourself, Joni & great of you've been relaxing after Yoga sessions too ;) Danielle x

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thanks for the reply, Danielle. Glad SOMEONE can identify!!!

:o/ ?

Was that camp you were mentioning the time you were here in the states?

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I nap whenever I can! And sometimes it's not just a nap, I can sleep for 2 or 3 hours, not meaning to. Never did this in sobriety. So, yep, I too identify.

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Yup, Easter Seals, Des Moines, Iowa, the potato state apparently x



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Easter Seals??? Like the charity foundation? How the hell did you get all the way to Iowa, Danielle??? LOL I'd say 99.9999% of our citizens never find a good reason to go to Iowa!! LOL

Lani, I too get into a comatose state at times with naptime. I think it is par for the course of the field we work in. It is physical, mental and emotional to the HILT. I had to tell a girl of 28 with kids, that the biopsy of a mole on her breast was malignant, invasive melanoma!! I talked to her for a long time while she cried and cried. Then I hung up and cried. Same way with an older patient, who is already dying of kidney disease and prostate cancer. He and his wife can barely handle any more pain in their lives. I get so wore out on certain days, emotionally.

And then there's the lady who looks half her age, but whose asshole husband demands that she keep coming in to get the tiniest imperfection or mole lasered off. I just want to tell HER to tell HIM to go f........ well, you know. Sometimes i just want to pull the covers over my head and turn off the clocks and phone and who cares when i come out!!

Twice recently, I have passed out on the couch after work, and woke up at 8pm, with the sky outside looking like it is morning and 8am (when really just before sun DOWN), and thinking I am late for work and panicking and scrambling around. One night I had my pant leg of my scrubs on before I realized it was still EVENING, and not the next morning!! What gives???.....

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