#BrainQA · Mental Health Awareness Week 2017

Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 – #BrainQA: What is one problem you find the hardest after your brain injury?

#BrainQA: Q&A to bring brain injury survivors together and to raise brain injury awareness. Every Monday at 8pm (UK time) on facebook, twitter and instagram The following answers are users from facebook, twitter and instagram, thank you everyone for answering! It’s Mental Health Awareness Week this week so the questions are focusing on our mental health. This… Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 – #BrainQA: What is one problem you find the hardest after your brain injury?

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Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: 10 products to cheer yourself and your brain up

For Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 day 2 I thought I’d share a few products that have cheered me and my brain up recently! It’s the little things that can cheer you up the most sometimes. I haven’t been sponsored or anything, I just like these products and want to share the happiness they bring. –… Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: 10 products to cheer yourself and your brain up

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#BrainQA, Question 4: Do your friends and family understand your brain injury?

#BrainQA: Q&A to bring brain injury survivors together and to raise brain injury awareness. Every Monday at 8pm (UK time) on facebook, twitter and instagram The following answers are users from facebook, twitter and instagram, thank you everyone for answering! Do your friends and family understand your brain injury? ‘My fiance defintely understand. He was there when I… Continue reading #BrainQA, Question 4: Do your friends and family understand your brain injury?

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Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: The mental strain and ongoing battle of living with a brain injury

8-14th May 2017: Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 and in a cruel twist of fate also the week I’m going back to see my psychiatrist. It’s a love hate relationship, I don’t enjoy going to see him but I do at the same time… I leave our sessions feeling refreshed. However, after 6 months of… Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: The mental strain and ongoing battle of living with a brain injury

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#BrainQA, Question 3: What’s the best advice you’ve been given since your brain injury?

#BrainQA: Q&A to bring brain injury survivors together and to raise brain injury awareness. Every Monday at 8pm (UK time) on facebook, twitter and instagram The following answers are users from facebook, twitter and instagram, thank you everyone for answering! What’s the best advice you’ve been given since your brain injury? ‘Write everything down.’ ‘I agree write… Continue reading #BrainQA, Question 3: What’s the best advice you’ve been given since your brain injury?

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Me VS the world…

*Sigh* What a week… It feels like it’s been me VS the world. I say feel because in reality it probably hasn’t and I’m just overthinking everything. I think I’ve been playing the ‘victim’ card and just letting myself get upset, which let’s be honest… I’m allowed to do once in a while, right? I… Continue reading Me VS the world…

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#BrainQA, Question 2: How often do you think about your brain injury?

#BrainQA: Q&A to bring brain injury survivors together and to raise brain injury awareness. Every Monday at 8pm (UK time) on facebook, twitter and instagram The following answers are users from facebook, twitter and instagram, thank you everyone for answering! How often do you think about your brain injury? ‘Whenever faced with adversity. Less now but still… Continue reading #BrainQA, Question 2: How often do you think about your brain injury?

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#BrainQA, Question 1: What is one thing you’d like every brain injury survivor to know?

I started #BrainQA yesterday: Q&A to bring brain injury survivors together and to raise brain injury awareness. So how did it go? WOW is how it went! What an amazing, helpful bunch of answers covering a wide variety of topics about being brain injury survivor. The following answers are users from facebook, twitter and instagram, thank… Continue reading #BrainQA, Question 1: What is one thing you’d like every brain injury survivor to know?

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Your brain injury does define you: Looking over an old blog post

Back in October I wrote a blog post about whether or not your brain injury defines you. At the time I was in two minds about it and came to this conclusion:

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How Motivational Tattoos is helping me ‘Breathe’ and calm my injured brain down

Breathe: A pin badge by Motivational Tattoos, wearing it alongside the Alphabet Brains Brain Injury Emoji Badge they make the perfect pair. Thanks to Motivational Tattoos I’m trying this new thing where I try to breathe before I snap back at people. Try is in italics, because my god is it hard… This is because my… Continue reading How Motivational Tattoos is helping me ‘Breathe’ and calm my injured brain down