Chronic Pain. Chronic Illness. SpOonies
“Spoonies” is a term used to describe persons living with chronic pain or illness who use spoons as a metaphor for their energy and ability to engage in what can often feel like a finite amount of everyday tasks and activities.
Persons in this community cannot often predict how many spoons they will have on any given day, and they must make choices that dictate what spoons they are going to put towards what task or activity. Therapy for spoonies can often lead to increased power and feelings of control.
How I Support Spoonies
Living with both visible and invisible illnesses can be an incredibly lonely, frustrating experience. Not knowing what each day, or each hour of the day, is going to bring can make it difficult to plan for when to do chores, how to go to work, when to have fun, and how to feel like you are the one controlling your life.
The impacts of living with pain that you've been told is "untreatable" or "a mystery" and doesn't have straight forward answers for resolving can be devastating. Therapy for chronic illness can help.