Innordinate
MyPTSD Pro
For those of you who don't know what the spoons are here's a little info:
The spoon theory
Basically- you only have so many spoons to use a day. People without disorders don't worry about spoon expenditure. People with disorders use up their spoon allowance on things like planning, hyper vigilance etc.
Eg)where non-disorder people just go for lunch with a friend and use one spoon a PTSD sufferer will use 3 spoons to just get to lunch, another 3 sitting there eating and another 3 to re-regulate once they're home.
9 spoons to do a 1 spoon job. And if you have 10 spoons a day, well, good luck. The other person just goes on their merry way. Your day, however, is over.
Anyways. My thing is. If you can use spoons there has to be a way to make spoons.
So. If you're a spoon user, how do you manage to make spoons. IE- self care. How do you make it count? Or can you at all?
really for me this comes down to, once you're brain's broken how do you best use your recharge time to actually recharge? instead of zoning out say, to some crap tv show you don't really care about? That doesn't really help you get anything else you need to do done?
The spoon theory
Basically- you only have so many spoons to use a day. People without disorders don't worry about spoon expenditure. People with disorders use up their spoon allowance on things like planning, hyper vigilance etc.
Eg)where non-disorder people just go for lunch with a friend and use one spoon a PTSD sufferer will use 3 spoons to just get to lunch, another 3 sitting there eating and another 3 to re-regulate once they're home.
9 spoons to do a 1 spoon job. And if you have 10 spoons a day, well, good luck. The other person just goes on their merry way. Your day, however, is over.
Anyways. My thing is. If you can use spoons there has to be a way to make spoons.
So. If you're a spoon user, how do you manage to make spoons. IE- self care. How do you make it count? Or can you at all?
really for me this comes down to, once you're brain's broken how do you best use your recharge time to actually recharge? instead of zoning out say, to some crap tv show you don't really care about? That doesn't really help you get anything else you need to do done?