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THERAPY
Editors message
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The Importance of play IMPROVING AWARENESS
MANAGE YOUR CONDITION Moving On
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Absence of a ‘FILTER’
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Importance of a Routine (SLEEP)
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up support, unfortunately still not uncommon today.
Moving On
Through work with the team Clef slowly realised what she was dealing with and began to take it on board. The accident had prevented Clef from working, she had previously been a Legal and Medical PA in London and the skills she needed
gave her difficulty. Clef claimed that she did not have any interest in or aptitude for art prior to I would like to introduce you to: Clef
her injury but during her recuperation
Skyers-Aakerstrom.
she took to painting and drawing as a way
Clef had her Head Injury back in 2006,
of
communicating,
occupying
herself and healing herself. This led to
but it wasn’t until 2013 that Clef was
an exhibition at the Derby Museum and
referred to a Head Injury Team. A
Art gallery in 2009 and an interview on
psychologist realised that persistent
BBC Radio Derby about her experience
concerns raised by Clef about her poor
to encourage other trauma victims to not
memory were likely to be as the result of
give up.
the accident in 2006. She had completely After having spent a couple of years
slipped the net for treatment and follow
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for this role were the ones that most
announced she had been offered a place
She had help with money spent on
and signed on to Derby University’s
books, materials, transport. She had a
Textile Course. Neither Clef nor I knew
mentor who sat in class and helped take
if she could cope with a full time course,
notes, helped her understand what was
her fatigue, cognitive difficulties and
required of her.
spinal and hand pain made everything
They could support her with research
harder than it would ordinarily have
and defining what articles she needed to
been. However, Clef was determined and
support
persevered. Clef had support from
her
study.
They
turned
‘academic speak’ into ordinary language
Student Services at the University. She
for her. She used a Dragon programme
benefitted from being assessed by their
which turned her speech into written
disability support advisors.
form which was invaluable.
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‘Outstanding achievement’ and now hopes to work as a designer. Ideally Clef will be able to now work at her own pace. She already has some interest in her work locally and from abroad. For more info on Clef’s work her website
Clef had morale support from local businessmen like Graham Penny, the Auctioneer from BBC’s (Homes Under The Hammer), and members of her church; as well as meeting creative mentors who encouraged her, Kit Kemp MBE a hotelier designer, and a bespoke interiors company Christopher Farr, based in Chelsea ; Hector Coombs, one of the
directors
We wish her well in her future career.
helped Clef be
encouraged that her work was indeed
Gerry White, Team Leader
good.
Derby Head Injury Team
Clef graduated with an honours degree this year, as well as won an award for
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is www.sky-aak.com
to do is further errode what may be an
Absence of
already decreasing plus fragil social circle.
“A Filter” There are occasions when something I suppose everyone has things that pop
which is spoken is amusing in a warped
into their head that they know they shouldn’t
say
out
loud
sort of way. Also some people become
however
sensitive to this and take offence to
sometimes; just in thinking it results in
pretty much everything you say.
words being spoken. However there are some guidelines The absence of a filter to prevent this
which you can follow to help you
from happening can create an awkward
navigate these murky waters.
environment for the person on the receiving end of your outburst. This can
E-mails / Texts
leave the listener feeling embaressed, angry, dissapointed or even disgusted,
This is actually fairly simple to resolve. In responding simply state that you
All these emotions are negative and may
need to process the information you
create a hostile reaction from someone
have been given and will respond
who is usually close to you.
shortly.
In an environment where it is already difficult
to
maintain
You can CC everyone who was on the
existing
orinal message in however then STOP.
relationships and near impossible to
Dont send anything for at least one
create new ones the last thing you wish 8
hour. After this create your responce but
Additionally there are people who are
only to the sender. Be factual, be brief
just
and to the point. Remember take any
everything negative that is happening in
emotion out of the response and ensure
thir life.
craving
attention
and
post
that the recipient can not mis-interpret Because you filter is not working
anything.
properly a opinion you find amusing, on a sensitive topic or involving politics,
you reply by offering to speak with them
religion, technical/scientific and pretty
on the phone to clarify any further
much anything about legality / morality
points.
can result in you spending days in full combat defence mode taking loads of
Social Networks
time and causing increase in emotional turmoil.
This can be a nightmare. Most people have extracted themselves from them
Therefore it is easy to become involved
(taken a break) at some point. However
in these scenarios and the ’social media
if add brain injuy to this situation it can
addict, the perfectionist or the pessimist’
be a recipie for disaster.
can easily get be engaged in a full scale digital war of words over something a
Some of the people using thesee services
very small comment.
can spend a significant effort making it look like their life is perfect. Other
Verbal Encounters
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Always be corteouse and polite and end
The amount of times I have thought to
Could what you say be
myself “Don’t say or do that; its
interpreted as being rude?
inappropite” is slowly decreasing every month. However not to long ago I didn’t
Do you really need to sucked into
have the abily to determine whether
an argumentative world?
something was just plain rude or would cause embarresment. As soon as came
Is this a good use of your time?
into my head I would say it. My partner would
just
be
dumbfoumded
and
Will the result be a negative
couldn’t quite believe that I had just said that. I had ‘foot syndrome’
for
a
long
in
impact on your mood?
mouth
time.
A
If the answers to any of these questions
combination of a lack of understanding
are ‘YES’ then you really have to ask
and empathy consequently resulted in a
yourself:
lot of freindships that were broken and family ties that were cut.
Conclusion
“Is it really worth focusing my energy here?”
Think twice about the ramifications of making a comment or whether you need to reply to something. Ask yourself the following questions:
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