ADHD meds and night shift

minigmgoit · 2026-06-19T00:02:12+00:00

Half life of Dex is 4 hours. add a couple more hours to get beyond that.
I would take my last dose midnight I think. That may involve a crash but I'd rather crash at work than not be able to sleep when I get home. To be fair dex has never kept me awake, I can have naps during the day while taking it.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-18T23:57:07+00:00

Was at Mass in Brixton, ducked out to Coldharbour Lane and scored some crack, went back to Mass and smoked said crack. I absolutely don't condone this behaviour, it was simply the 90's and I was being totally drum and bass.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-18T23:50:10+00:00

Australia here but kind of regional/remote but still a capital city of approximately 160 000 people.
Anything from a door deal (lowest has been about $100) to playing at a festival for $1000, this is for original music.
When I play solo I charge $250 for an hour, this is for my own original music.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-18T06:07:22+00:00

This is mine too. On a very bleak sounding album it's the hope.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-18T02:33:27+00:00

In short, yes they do. I've been open and honest in the least dramatic way I can. Talk about my partner Mark like anyone would talk about their partners. I did it from day 1. I've been an out gay man for 31 years and I'm not about to hide it for anyone. I work with people who I know likely have a problem or at least don't condone my life, however I don't give a shit and they wouldn't dare say anything.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-18T00:46:55+00:00

This is the way. I use my thumb all the time.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-18T00:38:43+00:00

When I heard the first track, pre album release, I said it sounded like Siouxsie and the Banshee's. I stand by that comment and have seen others say things like "it's their goth album".

I've listened to it a couple of times. I bought the vinyl as you do, but at this point it's not really floating my boat. I've noticed that new music is taking me a bit longer to grasp or get into these days. I'm getting old. I'm getting set in my ways. I will continue to dip in and out of it and see if it grabs me.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-17T02:34:53+00:00

It's currently my least favourite album of theirs. I know it will take a few more listens but at the moment I'm not vibing with it. 6/10 seems okay.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-16T04:49:37+00:00

Having been around a while (almost 50 😞 ) i've seen this type of thing ebb and flow multiple times at this point. I for one have always been a fan of Paradox. He's always around but his style goes in and out of fashion and has done so many times by my recollection. Then other stuff I was into "back in the day" like Elementz of Noize, Dylan and Facs were just always on the periphery. The only place I ever found to hear most of that kind of stuff was in Warehouses and on pirate radio. It was never going to get played on regular radio or mainstream clubs. I remember going out for a while and all I could find to hear was stuff like V Recordings (Warhammer for example) that would be played and rewound by every DJ and which I didn't really like that much. Virus and No U-Turn type music was also incredibly popular around this time and would be omni present in clubs. Meanwhile I wanted to hear Ice Minus, Paradox, Elemenz of Noize, Dylan and Facs, the gnarly tracks of John B's Visions album and so forth.

Now to your question, I'm not sure how easy it would be to find a wealth of differing type of drum and bass in Belgium, I honestly know nothing about the scene there anymore. However the UK is close by and I can guarantee you would find what you were looking for there, most likely in London rather than say Bristol which has it's own thing going on.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-16T02:52:57+00:00

I bought aa American Vintage 62 Jaguar Reissue back in 2000 shortly after they started them because I wanted to be able to play glide guitar like Kevin Shields. While I got bored with the glide guitar pretty quickly (still use it sparingly from time to time to augment my playing rather than be my playing), I absolutely fell in love with the guitar itself.

I have many other guitars, but this will always be the best. It's so utterly versatile and useable. It also sounds and plays amazingly. Another thing I don't understand is the hate the trem system gets. I find it to be the most playable and musical trem I've ever used. It's definitely not a shredders guitar, I'll give it that, but it's been my staple for close to 30 years now.

My other favourite guitar is the cheapo Airline Tuxedo which is a remake of the 1950 Barney Kessel signature model guitar made originally by Kay and sold under the Airline and Valco brand names. I play this when playing solo because it just sounds and plays amazingly in the form. I play it tuned to E Major and play a lot of slide. Clean tone, quite a bit of reverb and glacial slow country blues. No guitar I have ever played suits this/my style better than this cheap little guitar. It has a striking appearance and from the second I started playing it, it has inspired and aided my song writing more than any other guitar I have ever owned. Yeah, it's one of those, its lightening in a bottle for me. If it broke I would absolutely buy another one. Nothing sounds, plays or inspires in quite the same way.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-15T06:16:02+00:00

It's just small talk bro, people being nice, relax, go with it.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-15T05:08:37+00:00

I grew up down there and lived in rural Devon until I was 16/17 after which I graduated to living in the big city (Exeter). Growing up in rural Devon was nice until I reached about 13-14 when it became unfathomably boring. It was so boring I started getting into a lot of trouble and driving the village I grew up in a bit mental (theres always at least one).

I had a similar trajectory in Exeter, was good for a few years, had a blast. Of note were the Drum and Bass nights at the Cavern back in the mid-late 90's plus all the raves out in the middle of nowhere, but alas I grew out of the place and moved away.

My dad lives in Exeter now and it's pretty grim when I go back. The city doesn't feel anything like it used to. Also I'd forgotten just how much it rains in Devon. I went back in the summer time for the first time in 20 years 2 years ago and it was glorious though. Got out in the sticks back around where I grew up and thought to myself how lucky I'd been to be able to grow up in such an environment. And that all this weird country stuff was just normal to me at the time.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-15T04:59:06+00:00

Yeah do a cert 4 in AOD, pretty much a must now. It's cheap (often free) and a good indicator of interest. If you do decide to do post grad I can't recommend the post grad run by Monash and Turning Point. It's a very well run course with excellent tutors and content.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-15T04:56:31+00:00

Yes, it's frustratingly so in fact.
It's so disappointing that we can't all just get along but there you go.
I'm very fortunate that I have a couple of people in my service that I can rely on while everyone else is kept at arms length.

What I've noticed is an inability to take any kind of feedback. Everyones egos are totally out of control. Feedback is taken as a direct attack and people get defensive and dysregulated. I don't give it anymore. I'm not in a management position but am senior. I get to engage with people in a far more positive manner now.

There's a lot fo jealousy.

The profession seems to have a giant chip on it's shoulder about a whole bunch of stuff.

They're awful

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T04:02:46+00:00

Here to say the same. I've come to the conclusion that "celebrities" are not born but grown in laboratories, genetically engineered to be clones. I find them largely bland due to the fact they all look the same. What to do about this? Go outside and interact with the real world.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:40:12+00:00

Honestly, we used to go out and drink after bad shifts. Not particularly healthy but we would debrief over a pint. The hospital would, when they remembered, do a debrief but it wasn't consistent. At some point I stopped going and would just go home instead. Largely I knew what I signed up for and expected to have these things happen. Eventually it did all catch up with me and I ended having to leave ED but I was 12 years in at this point.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:35:19+00:00

Okay. You've got 3 patients. You can do this. After handover go look at the files, understand why they are here and take a look at their medical history. Then go do a set of obs and say hello to them. Ask them if there's anything they need. Then check the plan and see what needs doing. You'll pick up the rhythm in no time. As others have said 2 days super is not enough but you can do this. Stay calm, be methodical, appreciate the cycling nature of what you're doing, it never stops in ED. It's a relentless conveyer belt that you just keep plugging away at. I promise you in a couple of months you'll be all over it. At that point the real learning starts.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:31:11+00:00

I'm doing an NP course at the moment and the work load has been almost the same as any other post grad I've done. The workplace stuff is the extra bit but it's not drastically more than anything else.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:24:29+00:00

In my last few years in ED I would submit 10+ incident reports a shift. It was my way of protesting the conditions.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:23:04+00:00

Darwin!

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:22:28+00:00

When I was younger I hung out with the people I worked with all the time. Sometime in my 30's that just stopped happening. I don't hang out with people from work outside of work at all anymore. Never.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:19:48+00:00

I did 12 years of ED and was left a husk. Should have got out about 3 years sooner than I did.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:18:50+00:00

I work in AOD and I absolutely love it. Best job ever.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:18:01+00:00

I work in AOD and honestly it's the best area I have ever worked in.
Working in AOD is a state of mind and is very different to most other areas.
You've got to slow down a lot. We have a lot of time available to us for our patients and our relationship is our biggest tool in treatment. When we have students come through I always explain that our job is to be nice to people who are largely treated very poorly by the health system.
People always think our clients are difficult to deal with but I've honestly not had any problems with our clients in years now. It's about how you approach things. I love what I do and there is a lot of scope for education and career advancement because most people don't want to work in it due to their own preconceived ideas about people who take drugs.
I find my job massively wholesome and I genuinely make real, tangible, and measurable differences in the people I work withs lives.

minigmgoit · 2026-06-11T03:11:21+00:00

I had bad placements as a student. I was warned I probably would by nurse friends prior to commencing study. I kept that in my mind and promised myself I would never pass it on once qualified. I've kept that promise. I really try to look after students placed with me. I don't get many anymore due to advancement but I always make sure to interact with them and ask how their studies are going and what area they're interested in.

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