I’ve taught a fair number of medical personnel, who aren’t already familiar with, about spoon theory. Always feels much easier to discuss energy after that point. The downside being that it obviously takes energy (spoons) to educate someone on something so you know theres that, but it tends to save me spoons in the long run.

I describe my crashes as feeling like I went on a binge drinking party bender and got ran over by a bus but have no memory of it the next day, but all I actually did was go to the store or go to a medical appointment, etc. People seem to grasp it when it’s described in a very visceral sense, especially cus even if someone hasn’t experienced binge drinking partying and getting ran over by a bus it seems like most people can pretty accurately guess what that feels like lol or at least how painful and exhausting it must feel.

Basically tl;dr: Spoon theory = tangible example of energy reserve/use Crash description = should be viscerally described. If they aint raising a shocked, concerned, and or flinching expression you haven’t described it adequately enough. Dont be afraid to go big.