@barmhjertige1

1 month ago

Thank you Zach for talking about the spoon theory! Christine Miserandino created the metaphor. Spoons basically equal a unit of energy. Healthy people usually have an unlimited amount. «Spoonies» as we sometimes call ourselves have a certain amount. Some days we have more, some days we have less. Different tasks use up different amount of spoons. Quote from an article «Let’s say you have 12 spoons, which is the amount Christine used to illustrate the theory. In an average day, you might want to: Wake up Brush your teeth Wash your face Get dressed Eat breakfast Go to the doctors Come home Make and eat dinner Change into your pyjamas Right away, this comes to 9 activities. Some of these tasks, like brushing your teeth, may only use up 1 spoon, while going to the doctors has a number of stages and could use up 6 spoons. This only leaves you with 5 spoons for everything else… and there’s no way you can make 5 spoons stretch that far. So what are your options if you need to get everything done with only a small amount of spoons? You can opt to ‘borrow’ spoons from the next day’s allowance. However, this means you start the next day in deficit. Imagine trying to get all those tasks done with an even smaller number of spoons! It’s easy to get trapped in a cycle of overdoing it and exhausting yourself, due to not managing your spoons well enough.» I really appreciate you guys talking about this, as someone who has invisible illnesses as well.

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