"mastressalita;14994116" wrote:
Hey there Kindness Bench!
I've been under some high stress lately, and my daily chronic migraine has been as furious as ever. I find it is so hard to really get people to understand just how much time having a chronic pain condition takes away from things like playing Sims, writing, and getting reading in. I feel like some people think I'm ignoring them just because I haven't fit their story into my reading cycles yet, or I'm letting folks down by my slow update schedule... but the truth of the matter is, I'm doing as much as I can given the amount of spoons I've got (the majority of which go towards the fulltime job... no FT job, no health insurance to fight the pain-beast, so...) I find anymore I feel like I'm an ouraboros... it's very frustrating.
Crazy as it is, I find it very soothing to color. I realize that's just taking away yet more time that could be dedicated to something else, but I kinda like to just take out colored pencils and a nice coloring book and work away while I listen to a podcast or a Sim LP in the background. Does anyone else have tried and true "wind down" techniques? (Or recommendations of some great coloring books... I'm looking to expand, heh!)
*hugs Mastressalita* I understand what you mean by spoons since I heard that term used once on a video with a disabled person. Sure I might have more spoons than you but on a day like today-I had issues with doing the gym instead of using 2 spoons today I was using 4 spoons.
