Hey everyone, just a quick note to let you all know that MSPD won't be posted today. I'm going to try for tomorrow, but it's been a long week, I'm a bit depressed, anxious, and exhausted both mentally and physically and I just don't seem to have any spoons to spare the last few days. Hopefully I'll feel more capable or energetic tomorrow since there's a lot of writing I want to get done once I actually have the spoons for it.
*big hugs to you all*
Amethyst
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Hope you feel better Hon.
I know what it’s like to have a long and difficult week. Sometimes the week seems to last way more than seven days! And of course, the weekends are always too short, lol.
Relax and take care of yourself. Try a little pampering - it usually makes me feel better.
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
sends you huggles carrying spoons
Hugs!
Spoons, spoons, everywhere but nary a spoon to...uh to whatever
Oh, I know about being spoon-deprived, 25 years after full onset of symptoms of ME/CFS/CFIDS/FM/maybeEDS! Please accept profound empathy and sympathy from me too.
You probably know all this already. But, when someone repeats these things to me, just hearing them recited is a supportive and soothing ritual for me, so here they are. Recited just for you and whomever else wants to read it and share with us.
Sleep. Sleep enough, and shun the sugar, the caffeine, the nicotine, the alcohol. Avoid stress hormones, so avoid most television and movies. Almost all of them are designed to evoke adrenaline and other fight/flight hormone production in the audience. They know adrenaline is a powerfully addictive drug and helps their TV ratings. Even talk shows and sitcoms are bad, not just dramas or action genres. The music. A cheering crowd. Children in danger. Anyone in danger. Death, disease, injury. Threat. Fear. Guilt. Uncertainty, even. These are all things that boost production of adrenaline and other stress hormones. You do not have to get illegal drugs or even have a bowl of cereal or cuppa tea or cuppa coffee or a cigarette to have a powerful drug experience. Just the loud cheering and music at the beginning of a late night talk show will kickstart the adrenaline. They are intentionally designed to do that to us. Even the font of the show's title. Sleep, hydration, nutrition, and sleep are the best healers, together with the security and love of any loved ones in our lives.
Oh. I heard 'Schitt's Creek' is good. Just the right blend of satire, silliness, and good creative writing. I mute the theme song though. "Ugh", to quote David or Alexis. Seven seasons of it for free, with no commercials, on demand on our DirecTV here in the USA.
Until Dec 1st or Dec 30th, whichever. We binge several episodes at a time. Just as we did when we discovered 'Raising Hope' after the end of that show's run. I advise against 'The Walking Dead' though. It has gone pretty downhill so I do not recommend its recent seasons. And at least through Season 5, it was frequently very good at evoking physical stress responses in the body. That whole Terminus thing. OMG!
If I could mail crates of spoons to you, sweetie, you will have them tomorrow. They do not yet have a technology for that, though. Sorry. But you did get a lot of clicks on Love your post, so you know the love and care is out here and coming to you invisibly every moment. Intangible but very real and very precious.
Annie