Against the Clock: Shift Work Sleep Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe shift work sleep disorder. Writers describe taking the night shift — for the money, the childcare, the promotion, the vocation — and then learning to sleep in daylight: blackout curtains, white noise, the neighbours with the leaf blower, the family who cannot quite believe a sleeping adult at two in the afternoon. There is the shape of an upside-down day: the meals at wrong hours, the gut that objected, the social life that quietly ended, the weight and blood pressure that moved. Writers describe what helped — strategic light exposure and dark glasses on the commute, anchor sleep, caffeine timed properly, melatonin, planned naps, and rota changes negotiated with employers — and cover the households and marriages that became casualties. Later chapters hold sleep clinic perspectives, the near-misses, and the people for whom nothing worked until they left the schedule.

Who it's for

For nurses, drivers, police, factory and hospitality workers on rotating shifts, their families, and the occupational health teams responsible for them.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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