Coining a term for being limited in your interrelated energy and time.

[dratalanta]

I think of it more as an exertional budget.

“Activity” seems like a slightly grand term for what puts a dent in my exertional budget (e.g. drinking some water, or making this post).

It’s a budget for me, rather than a quota, because I can move my allocation a little from one day to another. But if I “borrow” beyond what I have “saved up” then the interest repayments can be extortionate, reducing what I have left to spend in my exertional budget for the next day/week/month.

 

[eva luna]

The phenomenon that patients are working with a limited budget of interrelated energy and time for activity however doesn't have a term or name that you can use as far as I'm aware of. And I think it needs one.

exertion intolerance:
exertion as in physical, intellectual or emotional
intolerance as in gluten or fructose intolerant: not too much, not too much at once

 

[Sbag]

How about “energy bank”

this gives the idea that there is only a certain amount of energy available and you could then use the analogy of going over budget incurring an extra cost (paying interest) to get back to base level

 

[Arvo]

Thank you all for your contributions, I really enjoyed reading your diverse responses.

I'm currently not doing well unfortunately, and am using my very limited....er....well there you go ...my very limited trying-to-not-cause-deep-PEM-budget for self care or writing attempt.

But I will certainly come back to this topic to let my thoughts simmer on it when I have more space.


Much love to you all. X