Out Of Spoons

33/ F / Chronically ill, mentally ill, extremely sleepy, trying to cope.

[fibro-memes]

[fibro-memes]

[gelphienation]

guys can we normalize wearing a mask at the very least if you’re sick and not coughing like you have tuberculosis once every 30 seconds in communal areas like can we pleaseeeee normalize that. cause there has been some genuinely unbelievable shit going on lately

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[meanb4by]

*develops an autoimmune disorder*

[fibro-memes]

[disabled-dyke]

one of the most frustrating things about being disabled and chronically ill is that everyone around you is allowed to be worried or scared for you. but the second you yourself say you’re worried or scared, suddenly it’s “you can’t be so negative, think positively, you might be totally fine in five years”

but i have to placate everyone when they’re telling me multiple times a day that they’re scared for my health??

[plasticbagfloatinginthewind]

how do I explain to healthy people that I get disappointed when my blood tests come back normal

[fibro-memes]

[fibro-memes]

[nikoisme]

i imagine being medicated would feel good as fuck. unfortunately i have to rawdog whatever's wrong with me

[akindplace]

from the inventors of chronic pain here comes… sleep deprivation from being in too much pain to fall asleep! and the next installment is… even more pain because of sleep deprivation

[fibro-memes]

[fibro-memes]

[fibro-memes]

[girldickdotcom]

they should invent a job that doesn't affect your schedule or energy level that you don't have to go to if you don't want but you still get paid

[myjourneywithfnd]

I saw a video today from a chronically ill woman about the fact you can feel so guilty when doing fun things.

She talks about how, as a kid, you learn to finish work before you can play and that you take this with you into adulthood. So you keep the mindset of having to finish 'have to' tasks/chores before being allowed to 'play'.

But when you're chronically ill, this is literally impossible! If you'd do that it would be all work and never play. That wouldn't be healthy at all. We need to remind ourselves of this. We don't need to feel guilty for doing something fun!

[insidestory1]

This is unfortunately not helped by people who ask you, "How come you're doing x fun thing when you couldn't do that chore I asked you to?" And it's very hard to explain to people that you couldn't do the chore because that would take up all the energy which you'd been saving up to do the fun thing, because you really needed something to help make life worth living.

[spooniestrong]

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