Tag: spoons

applying the social model to every other disabled person apart from yourself is the spoonie equivalent of ‘how come every girl in the world is pretty except for me?’ but also,          mood

cutespoonie:

the two bad fatigue moods:

  • gets super emotional, cries over the smallest things, empathetic™, can’t handle anything, irritable, overstimulated™, anxious
  • can’t feel anything, barely able to think, apathic™, can’t relate to anything, emptiness™, can’t cry, slow™, dissociating

i am so fucking sick it’s just a regular cold but im so goddamn sore and fatigued and unable to focus its like im dropping iq points by the hour. what kind of a sick universe decides illnesses get to combine transformers style into like, exponentially more powerful forms

ultraviolet-techno-ecology:

It disappoints me that people are more quickly drawn to the concept of “Normalizing Mental Illness” as being a problem instead of “Normalizing a severe lack of mental health resources.” 

Like recently I have been seeing a lot of posts about how people should never express suicidal ideation openly, typically with this sort of attitude that anyone who is really feeling so badly would just go to a doctor / therapist / etc,

But that fundamentally is not the situation. Particularly when mental healthcare often involves a significant amount of money, or the threat of involuntary confinement and further traumatization of the individual. 

Essentially, complaining that people are “Normalizing mental illness” when they acknowledge their suffering is a form of victim blaming, when the real underlying problem is a society which produces mass-trauma and fails to create mental health resources beyond the most absolutely basic “Lets try mindfulness!” crap.`

i’m sick and sore w abdominal pain so Also i get to have no focus and i’ve been crying over stupid things and i’ve been out of it all day because That’s the physical spoons/emotional spoons death spiral i guess

Worst Fear is that i contract something else that comes with fatigue and that stacks on top the fatigue i already have and i just die of Tired. like i’ll go to bed and my heart and lungs or whatever go “Yeah True i could take a break too”. like i’ll wear out like an old sock or something idk

apersnicketylemon:

Just a reminder, but you do not need to “earn” being tired.

You’re allowed to be tired, even if you haven’t “done” anything and you’re allowed to be tired even if you did less than someone else.

Being tired is a normal thing your body does for a whole plethora of reasons, and is a basic bodily function. You don’t need to “earn” basic bodily functions, no matter what anyone else tells you.