Can you tell me something positive about me?

I'm at the end of my 24h shift... 2h before I leave.
At the end of my wit
My patients are good but my mood is low af
This is such a pathetic question, but I'm really really really feeling terrible about myself. Some nice words might help me keep up the rest of what's remaining of the day (or night...? lol)
Thanks in advance.

20min later update: now I'm just tearing up for no reason... I guess everything is weighing on me more than I gave it credit for.

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being · 36-40, F

Why do they put you through 24h shifts ? I'm sorry you have to push through it. It's normal to feel emotionally intense, lack of sleep does that... But why do you have to push like that, they lack of personal or what ? I'm trying to understand the why..

Friendlyperson · 26-30, F

@being It's the normal thing.
In weekdays, you work from 09am to 4pm in the unit, and nightshift begins at 4 and ends at 09 of the next day.
In weekends, you are along 24h.

I have 4 to 6 24h shifts a month. Weekdays and weekends combined.

NativePortlander1970

@being Sadly many fields demand it due to severe shortages, healthcare is one of them, they do not pay support staff enough, administrators get the majority of the salaries, many of them six and seven figures, while nurses are lucky to get even $35,000 a year.

being · 36-40, F

@NativePortlander1970 thank you for explaining... it's sad really, especially thinking the focus the job needs..
@Friendlyperson sorry to hear that! In my humble opinion especially health care worker who need to be seriously alert shouldn't be having to go through that.
I had an ex who worked in military and had something similar, also another policeman friend having long night shifts.
At least for them, the night shift was always giving them an extra day off to sleep the next day. I'm not sure what's happening in your field.

NativePortlander1970

@being You're so very welcome

Friendlyperson · 26-30, F

@being
Well, after the 24h shift (when I leave at 09-10am of the next day), I get to go home and sleep. I'd the work the next day.
But say it's a weekend, and the sleeping day is a weekend, then I'd have to work the day after very normally.
I once had 3 weekends on a row (some default in planning), so I ended up have one month of working every.single.day non stop (except for the sleeping days which don't count lol).
Sometimes work is tough, and systems are worse. (Don't know if my explanation made sense though...)
God bless people who suffer from this, and bless the people who support them.