#BrainQA, Question 8: If you’ve told strangers, how did they react?
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#BrainQA, Question 8: If you’ve told strangers, how did they react?

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#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! If you’ve told strangers, how did they react? With me, mainly strangers have been curious and asked… Continue reading #BrainQA, Question 8: If you’ve told strangers, how did they react?

#BrainQA, Question 7: Do you have or would you get a tattoo to represent your brain injury?
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#BrainQA, Question 7: Do you have or would you get a tattoo to represent your brain injury?

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#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 you have or would you get a tattoo to represent your brain injury? I recently got… Continue reading #BrainQA, Question 7: Do you have or would you get a tattoo to represent your brain injury?

#BrainQA, Question 6: What kind of therapy have you had since your brain injury? Did you find that worked?
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#BrainQA, Question 6: What kind of therapy have you had since your brain injury? Did you find that worked?

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#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 kind of therapy have you had since your brain injury? Did you find that worked? This question is inspired by my latest… Continue reading #BrainQA, Question 6: What kind of therapy have you had since your brain injury? Did you find that worked?

How To Look After Yourself After A Brain Injury
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How To Look After Yourself After A Brain Injury

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Talk It’s a lonely, confusing and frustrating world after you’d had a brain injury. You become someone new; someone you don’t know or understand yet. You have to forget the person you used to be and enjoy the person you’ve become, but this is not as easy as it sounds… It’s a constant struggle. It’s… Continue reading How To Look After Yourself After A Brain Injury

Reading after a brain injury
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Reading after a brain injury

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I spoke about reading with my psychologist in our last session and he was surprised about how much I read because usually people with brain injuries find it hard to concentrate for long periods of time or get distracted too easily. I am like that but for some reason when it comes to reading all… Continue reading Reading after a brain injury

Organ Donation: Opinions and religious views on being an organ donor
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Organ Donation: Opinions and religious views on being an organ donor

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“It all makes sense now” I say aloud to myself while reading about organ donation on page 75 of Carla Valentine’s book Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors. ‘The rationale was simple: come Judgment Day, when the dead were to be raised from the Earth to stand (according to the Bible), there was no… Continue reading Organ Donation: Opinions and religious views on being an organ donor

Headaches…
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Headaches…

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Just got back from a successful trip to my local GP. Headaches are one of the symptoms of living with a brain injury and since my injury over four years ago I get them every day. They don’t affect me and I can live with them but the past couple of weeks I’ve been suffering… Continue reading Headaches…

Creating a world from a bench in a crowded street: How I came to feel safe after my brain injury
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Creating a world from a bench in a crowded street: How I came to feel safe after my brain injury

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May 2013: Around this time I had been with my boyfriend Stephen for a little over a month. We had just taken our first holiday, a weekend away at Harrogate; the town I was born in. He met my family, we drank nice wine, ate nice food, drank overrated tea at Betty’s tea house, walked… Continue reading Creating a world from a bench in a crowded street: How I came to feel safe after my brain injury

#ANewMe: How brain injury affects my life and how it motivated me to create Alphabet Brains
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#ANewMe: How brain injury affects my life and how it motivated me to create Alphabet Brains

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#ANewMe is a project by Headway: ‘A New Me provides a platform for people to creatively share their experiences in order to challenge misperceptions of brain injury while demonstrating the value of having access to the right help, at the right time, such as the support provided by Headway groups and branches and our other frontline… Continue reading #ANewMe: How brain injury affects my life and how it motivated me to create Alphabet Brains

Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: Therapy Thursday
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: Therapy Thursday

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I’m a nervous person, I always have been. I get nervous when I have to make a phone call, when post comes through the door, when I hear the email alert sound on my phone, when I check my bank account, sometimes when I have to explain my brain injury to others and often when… Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: Therapy Thursday