I've been working night shift for a year and now I've been diagnosed with anxiety and heart palpitations i suggest everyone get out of this line of work

I worked night shifts as a security guard for a year. I never adjusted to that schedule...always felt tired. When I would make it to my bed and eventually fall asleep, I'd be lucky if I slept for 5 hours. It was not a good experience whatsoever.

Been working 10months on a nightshift,,as the weeks went by I started behaving odd,,anxiety mood swings,irrational thoughts,worrying about stuff ,arguing with my partner,,I've had enough ,handed my notice in today ,, never again,,health comes first

This video is such a negative impact for all night shift workers. Ffs we don't want but we have to. We can follow a better way to manage health in night shift cycle and it's not said anywhere here.

I was working night shift. I was ok but after 2 years I started feeling stressed, anxiety and having panic attacks. I felt mentally fatigue and brain fog. I just quit recently and im starting to feel normal again. Pls dont do night shift guys. It will destroy your health

I started working night shifts parttime about 14 years ago and for the last 4 years I work night shifts only. Here some survival tips: 1. Treat your days equal as day workers their nights. Tell your friends and colleagues that you are not available during your sleeping hours. 2. Adjust your sleeping hours to the season. In summer I tend to go to bed early, more or less straight after work, as it is still a bit cool. In winter, when it is getting dark early, I sleep from lunch until the evening. This way I still can enjoy some hours of sun light. 3. Try to create an evening and morning routine. 4. Laugh, probably better in secret, at those who have to go to work in the morning, while you have already done most of your stuff for that day. 5. Enjoy the benefits of working at night..no boss around, no distraction from customers, silence. 6. Take care during 3 and 4am. During that time you often get some sort of melancholic mood.

When I first worked night shifts as a healthcare worker, I loved it. Administration wasn't there. Easy work. Don't have to talk as much, the job itself was a pro. It has been 5 years now. I am exhausted tired all the time, sleep when I get home, have a window where I'm awake and then sleep before I go to work. I am tired, cranky, went from 165 lbs to 212lbs....life Is just passing me by. I'm preparing to look for a new job at the moment....

I know somebody who passed away because of working extreme night shifts - he ate poorly because he was trying to make extra cash and drank lots of energy drinks because he wanted to finish work while sleep deprived. I wish I was making this up but yeah, it caught up to him and he one day collapsed in our office. Poor guy. Take care of yourselves, and listen to your bodies!

I’ve been on night shift for four years. I gained about 15 to 20 pounds the first year. I was one point away from being prediabetic, so I decided to make a change in my life. I started weight training and meal preps. It has made a drastic positive change in my life. I am way more energized and have a sleep, meal, and gym schedule. I’m only doing this to get through school but I will miss it.

I’ve worked Overnight for almost 30 years & wouldn’t ever go to Days. I’ve been a Night Owl since I was a teenager; so it is natural to me. Family Life could be tricky; but I’m off on weekends now & my wife loves it. We get to just chill! Do all the shopping, appointments; ect. Monday through Friday; so we literally get to chill & hang out later on Sundays & it’s normally less crowded then.

I love the night shift 🤷🏾‍♂️ I have wayyy more energy at night, and I still feel great after 6 months of this schedule! Plus i hate getting up in the morning and having to work my whole day away, I still get my full 8 hours of sleep

I’ve been on night shift since I was 18 and out of high school, I’m 22 now and it’s still miserable. Im hoping after the holidays to find something different, I miss having a normal life and overall just being much more happier.

Been on night shift 7 years by choice, been an athlete before and after starting this schedule, never noticed any difference in performance or any other important factor of my life. I think this is more a theory people have then a reality. My ER general surgeon farther also almost only worked night shifts for 30 years, in his 70’s now he still comes on 5 mile jogs with me almost every single morning and he works out an hour and a half a day. Keep coping folks, I’ll gladly take that night shift schedule off your hands, they ALWAYS start with a higher wage then day shift workers and usually have way less actual work to complete.

Night shifts were the worst decision I ever made and have ruined my life over the past year. I'm resigning from my job next week to go back to my previous job and I couldn't be happier.

I never worked in night shifts. But since the pandemic and lockdowns, as classes were closed for a long time, my routine broke. For a long time I went to sleep at almost dawn and wake up in the mid day. That time I realized myself that, this habit is effecting my memory. It makes you slow and all day you feel sleepy even if you sleep enough. And body pains also. I decided to not take any night shift jobs, although there are lots of night shift jobs and I currently need one, but I'm making a compromise for my health.

I’ve been doing 12 hours night shifts for 8 years. I’m now doing day shifts for two weeks and I’ve never left better. My mood and energy have gone up. I used to like night shifts because I hated socialising but now I changed that mindset.

You have described it very well, its been a month I have withdrawn those night shift job activities and thanks for clearing my misconceptions

been working nights for almost 3 years, and still i only sleep for 1-2 hours before my first work day. no energy during off-days. this is not a life, it's torture

Omg, this channel deserves more than this! I've just discovered you guys today and feel like it's a blessing! Thank you!

Hate night shifts, I'm a night person and I prefer wasting my time at work during the day and having the evening for myself

Welcome back! You guys are amazing!

This hit me and im glad im improving my overall health recovering back to my normal hours of functioning.

I’m 24 & I already have a few grey hairs from working the night shift

Thansk for your videos health chronicle ❤️🙏🏾

As someone who has worked night shifts for 2 years I almost feel like any comments on the side of trying to say I have no negative effects working nights is a defense mechanism. It's like you have to convince yourself that while working nights is obviously possible to do, that there are not any negatives to it because you think you are okay. And you must present yourself to the world as if you are ok. I just saw a comment about working nights for 3 years and they are fine, and my comment is a response to that. I've worked nights for 2 years and I am fine, but am I really? Could things be better having to get up in the morning like we were taught even as children going to school. No one really enjoyed school, but I bet work is worse, let alone it happening at night

I've been on the night shift since 2004, after four years on the evening shift. I really didn't care for that evening shift at all - there was a lot more work, and i was a lot more tired, because I could never seem to get to sleep when I got home. My first mids shift was the usual 8hrs, 2300-0700, and I wasn't sure when to sleep - consistency is the key. The next year, we moved to a gorgeous 10hr schedule where I worked 2am-noon. I loved it. I'd run some errands when I first got home, enjoy some sunshine, maybe join some diurnal friend on their lunch break, prep some food for the next day, and be in bed by 4pm. I woke up at midnight, went for a bike ride, had a meaty breakfast, and what felt like plenty of time to get in by 2am (because there's no traffic at all). I wouldn't be able to handle that now ... the idea of working past 11am has been horrifying for decades, and I haven't volunteered to stay past 9am in at least 10 years. We went back to straight 8s in 2006, and I experimented with a variety of patterns over the years, perfecting it. For a while, I was sleeping right when I got home (2hrs), waking up to volunteer outside for 4hrs in the middle of the day, then coming home to sleep the rest of the evening (6hrs). It was fine for a while, and the type of volunteering I did really helped to balance me out ... but I think I eventually aged out of that 😂 When the volunteer gig ended, I started moving back to a solid sleep block. For a while, I tried sleeping right when I got home ... but then I was sleeping *too* much, still not feeling like waking up until 6pm - too much sleep can be just as bad as too little, if not worse in my case, as I'm genetically prone to migraines, and my major triggers are dehydration, which is what sleeping 10-12 hours at a time can get ya. Eventually, I found my sweet spot: 10am-5pm (with room for snoozing until 6pm). I've been on this pattern roughly 5yrs. My health is considered better than most of my peers I started with (most of whom are on day shift now), and even a lot of the ones with half the time. I keep strict boundaries to my workable hours, and stay true to my sleep schedule. Plus, I actually eat vegetables and whole foods most of the time - I cook! All those restaurants open during the day, everyone goes out to eat - and not to a salad bar. A lot of them hang out to get drinks after work (super healthy!). In 2020, we experimented with some 8/12hr combo shifts (work a 12, then an 8, then a 12, two days off, work a 12, one day off... it was confusing, but fun). I tried it for 2yrs, to shake things upnfor myself, and still had plenty of sleep and felt fine, mostly, but I couldn’t keep track of time AT ALL. The lack of consistency was messing with my brain too much - even though I was still asleep and awake at the same times I was before. On days when I was going in early, I was pretty much just waking up and rolling in, which is sad, because I like to enjoy my evenings ... and I did, on the three-day weekends the schedule gave me every other week. I'm back on straight 8s now, 2300-0700, and I love it. At this point, I'm very senior, I could have any shift I want. I *prefer* overnight. It's not about the shift differential, but the expectations of the job. There are fewer "chiefs" at night, fewer "Karens" onnthe line, and I only have to hear from a supervisor when it's something big. There's less... noise, fewer stimuli wreaking havoc on the senses. The world is so loud, and bright, and *angry* during the day. My night shift folk are chill, with a dark, fun sense of humour. The crew on days is older (like me), so cranky, so resistant to any sort of change .. any sort of update, and OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING 🙄 The evening crew is mostly new, young, ready for action, they don't like down time, and they really do get all the worst calls - bless them. During the day, you get the tension of old grudges and politicking; in the evening you get a lot of hormones and drama ... but at night? We cool, man 😎 Everything is going to be okay. Most of the research talking about how bad night shift is for a person is dealing with people who don't stick to a good sleep schedule, eat poorly, have no routine, and don't exercise - of course your health is going to be terrible! Those employers who keep switching schedules around on their employees should be held accountable for their poor health, because that lack of consistency is a *known* factor in poor health. Your body can't adjust if it's in a constant state of flux. Ironically, it's usually people in the medical field that they do this to, so the ones who are (or should be) the most aware are the biggest culprits.

I've been working nightshifts since 2022, for me personally it is the best thing that could've happened. I have trouble falling asleep during the nighttime and by the time I get off work (8-12am) I can enjoy the rest of my day in peace! But it's difficult to meet up with friends or family who work regular day jobs...

Because of this video I'm switching to day shift. Thanks!

I had hardcore shift work sleep disorder working DAY shift 6 am - 6 pm. So if it makes anyone feel better, day shift is terrible too lol

What’s your opinion on a starting shift of 1am. I’m about to start a job that’s 1am-11am. So I’d wake up at 12am, then would be going back to sleep around 4-5pm. But I would be getting at least 5-6 hours of actual nighttime sleep. Just worried because my body is used to falling into its deepest sleep from like 2-3am to like 8am... Might I add that I have done a little research and learned that it’s best to still eat during daytime hours if possible and fast during any nighttime hours on the shift. Which isn’t that hard for me because I’m experienced with intermittent fasting and even 2-3 fasts now and then. So I wouldn’t eat my first meal until like 5-6am probably. When the Suns coming up.

Darn! I did not expect so much problems from night shifts! Thankfully I did not have that too much in my live! Thanks for the video!

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Always worked evenings, finally work 9-5 ya’ll this is where it’s at. I have so much time in the evening and the weekends and I actually be with family.

I have been working night shift for at least 3-4 years now. I think the people who have the biggest problem are the ones who try to have a normal routine with the wake up early, work out go to job but in reverse. Since you work at night, morning time for others is your sleep time. Even if you have something important at 10am so you need to be up, it is better to sleep for a few hours, give your body the space to rest and have a good meal. You can't have a heavy meal and go to bed. You will have your heavy meal/ lunch before work. You need to change what is considered a normal schedule and make it work for your hours. Also naps help a lot. Good nutrition and working out is helpful. You can't survive night shifts with junk food. Not sure why but something that all my coworkers swear by is eating your greens. It helps a lot when having such a schedule.

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Interesting clip. I've worked graveyard for almost 16 years as a heavy diesel technician. I took right to the schedule without a hitch. There's some of us that are just built to run nights, and I'm proud to say I'm one of them.

Recently discovered this channel, the content is top-notch, and here i’m wondering why you don‘t have more subscribers and views! Leaving this comment for the algorithm, and you got a new subscriber 👍🏼 keep it up!

Why this yt isn't active?we need channel like this

I've noticed night shift people try to stay up during the day on weekends , that doesn't work out well.

Great video good explanation

THE POSITIVE BENEFITS: Lower stress, Lower eye degradation, extremely reduced risk of cancer, more comfortable temperatures, less people and car exhaust which overall improves cardiovascular health, less traffic and less risk of automobile accident, less chance of waiting in lines or being in packed restaurants (that are open) less chance of catching diseases or illnesses as everyone is asleep and not walking around coughing. The list goes on forever.

I just resigned from my night shift. It’s affected my health. It’s only been a few months but I’m over it. Never got enough sleep.

Oh the legends has returned After 2 years :)

I've been working full time night for almost 3 years, at first I loved it but recently it's been taking a toll. Waking up around 1-4pm, half the day already over, being up all night when everything is closed and all my friends are asleep. So finally I'm going baxk to days, I'm nervous but also excited

I worked day shift for one year, i developed a severe energy drink addiction. After going back to nights, i have felt so much better. Early mornings wore me done more so. I must be in the minority. ;)

I've worked nights on and off for 12 years. Going back to days was difficult. Years later I get my best sleep in-between 8 am to 11:am. Any sleep at any other time is not as good.

It’s the 10 year mark since I’ve been working at night straight! My job is only at night. I’m definitely feeling it and I see it! It’s time to quit!!! Can’t wait!!

I work for the railroad on call 24/7 and with varying shifts. When I have to go from days to nights it feels like I’m a zombie at work

I’ve been doing night shifts for almost 5 years now, and i feel like i’ve aged more than 15 years in those 5 years 😢

You say the the negative side effects doesn’t only come from a lack of sunlight, but because of “the body clock”. Our body clock has evolved so that we want to stay awake during the day and sleep during the night, but if that has nothing to do with the sunlight, wouldn’t that make you get all these negative side effects by moving to an opposite time zone and living there? I just see any other thing than the sun controlling whhat is “day” and what is “night”. So how come the body clock knows something we don’t. I might be stupid, but I have tried searching for different articles and studies about this topic. Almost everyone of them says that it is not only the sun, but this “body clock”, but isn’t the body clock based on the sun? Idk. I would love to get some help here.

I love working nights! Way less noise, easier to focus, and less traffic! They don’t call it the graveyard shift for no reason lol it’s tears up your body!

Thanks, its been a long time

Watching this video after quitting my night shift job as it was taking my life away but I am little worried because now I am jobless...and it's hard to spend the day time without any job.

I’m scheduling a check up watching this video

I work night shift and I absolutely love it. I have no issues sleeping during the day. My body felt worse on day shift. I was always exhausted and falling asleep driving to work. Falling asleep driving hasnt happened on night shift. Night shift works so much better for me

I've been working nights for a few yrs now .. after working afternoons most my life and although I love this shift I am always tired and if I don't eat right or fit in some type of exercise I feel worse but I cannot always follow that schedule so I just deal with being tired but the issue I have the most is with others that don't get the concept that my time is literally reversed so wen people call at 3pm it's like 3am for the average person but they don't see it that way they think we should be up in the day so I'm not sure when we are sup to sleep idk if anybody else has this issue but it's a huge one to get people to understand

I worked night shift for 3 years and I still suffer from chronic fatigue and insomnia I’ve been off for about 8 months. I never can go back I know my body isn’t the same my joints are pained while typing this message

It’s true I lost some of social skills. Don’t see my friends often and by time I get home it’s so late I just want to eat and sleep

That's a very health full video

Iam 19 years old and I do 1 week night shifts and 1 week day shift since 1 year when every Monday my routine change trust me guys it’s painful every Monday I can’t sleep because of new routine but lets hope for best

My mental health is out the roof i feel like i have no life and very depressed

Night shift really sucks especially if you need to commute. I wake up after sleeping for 10 hours but still tired and sleepy after sleeping..

Nice comeback ....😎🤗

I have been working nights for 3 years 12 hours shift and I work by myself. And the only problem I have is no time with my gf she leaves for work when I get home like if I don’t leave work fast enough I miss her some day I only see her for 5 min a day and some none at all

I've been working Night Shift for about a week an a half now. I've always working on early shifts and it's horrible. I've always coming to work tired and depressed while seeing my co-workers having the energy to work for 8 hours. Ever since I've worked for night shift, I have the energy to work for a 10hr shift.

Ahh love it ^^

Im a night shift EMT for a private ambulance company and ive been doing it since january....i work 13 hour shifts from 8pm to 9am of me staring at a road traveling across the state of ohio transporting psych patients 3 nights a week (i been picking up more cause im desperate for money). We get absolutely 0 breaks during our shifts and idk how to sleep during the days i work. I even tried setting up a sleep schedule with my alarm clock but i have absolutely no mental will to sleep during the day and i even got darkened curtains. These days i feel im bound to get into a car accident but idk how to tell my dispatcher from another city who doesn't care how i feel at night when i need a break.

Well come back!

I've been working the nightshift for the past 22 years. 4 nights in a row, 8 nights in a row, heck I used to work 13 nights in a row. I'm not diabetic or prediabetic. I've had heart studies done because I had a tiny, tiny chest pain a few years back. My doctor sent me to a cardiologist and my cardiac vessels were clean. I haven't gained any weight. Actually, I now weigh a few pounds less now that I am older (age related muscle loss?). I eat right, don't drink or smoke. I get good hours of sleep and eat healthy most of the times. Nightshift work is doable.

I've been on the 3rd shift schedule at my job for over 10 years and I really can't stand it. The schedule makes it difficult to have a personal life with anyone that has the opposite schedule of myself and the sleep schedule is a pain as well, especially during time off. I'll explain based on my schedule. I work Sunday night/Monday morning through Thursday night/Friday morning (typical schedule excluding overtime). I'd be out of work at 7 am on Friday morning, in bed around noon after having lunch, forced to wake up around 4 or 5 pm for dinner, back to bed a few hours after that (not easy to focus or have an appetite after only a handful of hours of sleep), wake up Saturday morning to have a "normal" day, sleep on Saturday night, and then fight all day on Sunday between free time and sleep time until I have to wake up at 9:30 on Sunday night to get ready for work again. Can't have a consistent schedule, even with sleep on the weekend. Doesn't mentally feel good either when you realize that you only have one full calendar day to yourself (at the most) per week.

I start working overnight stocking I've been doing it for 2 months and my physical and mental health have declined by alot I want to leave it before I find another job but I'm barely 19 and still living at home with my mom and she won't let me leave, without having a job in place but my health is declining by alot oh and I have too be on pain killers to get through the job too

I worked nights at 18 for 2 years at a trucking company my shift was 930 to 630 am my favorite shift was 230 pm to 1130 pm no traffic coming to and from work

15 year night worker here and I often question how the shift affects me. So far so good. I have done medical tests and my results come back good not just passable. I went into this pretty studied and treated sleep like a hobby until I can get 7 hours of sleep with a few hours to function before clocking in. I guess the lack of motivation to change shifts was the fact that the morning shift person wakes up midway through my shift just to relieve me. They get home on time to tend to family things and then off again early to sleep. They came in miserable all the time. They looked like the stories of working nights. The best I can do is continue to work it as healthy as I possibly can.

I’ve tried on three occasions to work nights. Each time it seems my health falls to pieces

If I eat at 9pm before work and eat again at 6in the morning before leaving and only drink water in between,I think that could help with the Digestions enzymes’ problem Right ? And I wanna work Night Shift for 5days a week for 2months ,I was wondering if that could be troublesome .Could anyone help me please thank you

I think employers who make workers work rotating shift patterns should be held accountable.

me watching this at 3am :')

I've been on night shift for 20 years.. and I am now experiencing the effects of it but it pays the bills so I have to keep going..

People work day shifts in Russia while its dark in the USA and are healthy. This means the body doesn't "Know" when its daytime. Just in your part of the planet. If you wake up with ambient light or one of those alarm clocks that put up light, If you eat during the night but not early morning (which would be your nighttime if you change your circadian rhythm) if you stick to a regular sleep schedule as you would during the day. If you take vitamin D pills or gummies to negate the lack of sunlight. If you exercise (as you would during the day, come on guys!) Seriously not a big deal. In fact, you'd notice the positive benefits of: Lower stress, Lower eye degradation, extremely reduced risk of cancer, more comfortable temperatures, less people and car exhaust which overall improves cardiovascular health, less traffic and less risk of automobile accident, less chance of waiting in lines or being in packed restaurants (that are open) less chance of catching diseases or illnesses as everyone is asleep and not walking around coughing. The list goes on forever.

I dont think that people choose night shift because they dont want to wak up early, most of them have to do it because of school, kids, or somekind of important reason that would force them to work night, but for someone who works nights I find it really hard and its true that you will never adjust

I do rotational shift work, 2 weeks of 3, 12 hour day shifts and then 2 weeks of 3, 12 hour night shifts. Wish I'd rather be on one shift.

I think the biggest problem with graveyard shifts is the inconsistency of sleep during the day. I worked for more than 4 years at nightshift and I'm having a hard time breathing and sleeping during the day. I'm 26 years old. I feel like I'm too young. I still have a lot of years ahead of me. I don't always want to be stressed and depressed. God help me.

Hi really could Info, do you know where I can find the studies that are mentioned in this video

Nightshift is the one of the worst thing you can do for your health

i keep trying to research , if working at night is okay and by working i mean studying stuff for my projects , and instead of making anything for my projects i research if its okay , freaking god , why cant i be productive at all

Please upload more videos,

Been experiencing these symptoms. my shift was moved to 2am - 10am due to dst. And I’m seriously considering quitting the job and finding a day shift. heard it takes months before mgt in my job to approve day shift and not guaranteed.

Amazing

I had pretty severe DSPS and evening shift was great for me. I couldnt fall asleep before 6am even if I tried. In fact, after years of working early morning shift it was like I woke up for the first time in my life, it was amazing. Early morning shifts were absolutely debilitating to me when I went back to them, and kind of permanently ruined my circadian rhythm.

I’ve been doing night shift and it’s been back and forth since on my days off I’m being a mom taking care of kids. I’m ready to talk to my boss about day shifts 😢

*Depends on the nature of work. I've been there. Working 12 hours in a production factory is absolute misery on Earth. The money is good, but the trade off is your health. I'm glad I work mornings.

Goddam amazon got me looking at vids like this .

I've been a night owl as long as I can remember. For me the morning shift is far more detrimental than a night shift, but an evening shift is perfect.

My job starts at 6:30pm and ends at 3:30 am its not difficult for me since I always sleep late at night anyways but im finding it hard to manage other things along with this routine

I work nights shifts two years now but it may be affecting me harshly stress,and anxiety 😥 i like nights you don’t have to deal with ppl but it not good for me I know some ppl can handle nights

Thank you

No. Night shift was NOT worth it. I worked for 2.5yrs as a Walmart retail stocking associate from 10pm-7am a couple months after graduating High School. I never adjusted to the schedule, became addicted to caffeine, loss all of my energy and motivation, and really just became a robot. I’ve lost many love interests, friends, and missed out on family things because I was too mentally and physically fatigued to try and do anything. My overnight schedule wouldn’t allowed me to do anything for anyone or myself. For a $1.50/hr more than what the other shifts offer, it was not worth it at all.. Please avoid overnights if you can. It has ruined my life, and now I have to rewire everything all over again.

I worked 2 years night shift. Alone in a hotel is rough. Our bodies should sleep when the sun goes away.

I had to work at night for 6 months , 3 months 3pm to 11:30pm and 3 months 11 pmto 7:30 am. Pretty much everything in the video happened to me. I’m naturally a night owl but am still used to waking up before noon. It took a toll on pretty much all of my health. I don’t recommend it especially for anything less than a large salary. Today I’m starting another 3 months rotation 11-7:30 again. I had six months since those first two rotations. I’m gonna quit.

Ive worked 9pm to 6am for 11 years now. and i love it.