August 2016
MENTAL HEALTH
MANAGE YOUR CONDITION
IMPROVE COGNITION
IMPROVING AWARENESS
THERAPY
RELATIONSHIPS
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Contents Editors message and Reader Letters Contents Contributors
2 3 4
MANAGE YOUR CONDITION Importance of Nutrition
RELATIONSHIPS COMA story
5
A Parents Uncertainty
8-12
Living with Brain Injury,Change 13-16 Feeling Disconnected
39-41
IMPROVE COGNITION Train Your Brain
42-44
Brain Training Applications
45-49
REVIEWS & SUBSCRIPTIONS
17
IMPROVING AWARENESS Macmillian Cancer Support
18
Information from Headway
19-20
Inclusive Education
21-23
Book Review
50
Movie Review
51
Subscriptions
52
Key Contacts
53
Supporting Awareness
54
MENTAL HEALTH Negative Thinking
24-26
How to keep motivated
29-33
Speech Matters
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THERAPY Exercise -Body Maintenance
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Contributors To this issue Thank you to the authors who had input to this magazine. Without your valuable content this issue would not have happened! Coma Story—Rob Ott
Living With Brain Injury “Change”: Anthony Horax
Children's Corner:
Living With Brain Injury “Disconnected” Nigle Schumer
A Parents Uncertainty : Sue and Lance Massey Exercise: Body Maintenance: Lucia Lawless
Inclusive education—Daniela Silva Dealing with negative thinking—Gary Sharpe Keep motivated—Christine Hynd
Nutrition—Michelle Pitt
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meaning. Out of chaos has sprung a new,
“COMA story”
calmer reality which provides a different sense of balance plus priorities. It was quite common to
hear
survivors
feel
apathy
towards
The brain can interpret what it experiences in
irritating / impatient / rude behavior. For
many ways, and people often hold onto
example a greater tolerance for ‘road rage’ can
whatever explanation makes the most sense or
exist, almost as if the ‘I’m not bothered’
is the most convenient for them. Since the
syndrome has been injected into the survivor.
medical professionals are just beginning to
When speaking to some peoples friends and
understand the path the mind follows when it
families they often comment ‘she doesn't seem
goes from unconscious to awake, we don't
so wound up anymore’. We suppose this could
know exactly why some people end up in
be seen as a benefit in one way, although it’s a
states that provide these visions, nightmares,
pretty tough lesson to learn, although they do
and in some cases, memories. It is quite
say:
typical to have some portion of the memory ‘blacked out’, I guess it’s the bodies way of
“You learn more and through
saying ‘you don’t need to remember this bit of
hardship”
your life’. After speaking with many survivors it appears to be quite a common conclusion that they do not take life for granted and feel they have a new perspective from being so close to death! Often it is felt that a new unique learning has been gained and some material things that were important no longer have the same
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Key Facts about childhood acquired brain injury
Relationships
Many people think of acquired brain injury (ABI) as a result of road traffic collisions, but as can be seen above, there are many causes of ABI, which are often overlooked in later years when difficulties may start to arise. As detailed on the right, these figure are ONLY those children who are admitted to hospital; there will be many more children who were not admitted and some whose ABI remains undiagnosed. The majority of children will return to school following ABI and will look just like their peers, with no visible injuries; however as the brain does not mature until mid 20’s, we can not be sure of what difficulties may be ahead.
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Following a survey of over 100 families in early 2016, we can see that friendships and socialising are more difficult after ABI; with many young people feeling excluded. With increased awareness of ABI, which is actually one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders, children can be better supported and understood of following ABI. For more details about childhood acquired brain injury, or to request support from one of our Regional Child and Family Support Coordinators, please contact us: Email: Telephone: Website:
helpline@cbituk.org 0303 303 2248 www.childbraininjurytrust.org.uk
Twitter:
@cbituk
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/childbraininjurytrust
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extremely demanding … but then you
“Parents Uncertainty”
already know that, so all I’m going to try to do is throw a few things out there that I’ve thought about a lot since my son’s head
Parent To Parent – Caring For Your Child With An ABI
injury in 2009. He was 19 when it happened as the result of an assault so I’m speaking from the perspective of being the
Extract from Headway Worcestershire’s
parent of a young adult. When a person
blog, www.headwayworcestershire.org.uk
receives a head injury in his teens, suddenly the life he had envisaged, planned, dreamed about needs to be
head injury and you will all be at different
thought about in a different way, because
stages of that person’s recovery. You will
he is now a different person, living his life
almost certainly be caring for someone you
in a completely different way.
love, probably a member of your family, and that person will almost certainly be a different
The Key Information
person to the pre-ABI person, even if in very
I don’t want to be all preachy because none
subtle ways. If that person is your child, then
of us are saints and neither are the sons and
the whole business of caring becomes
daughters we’re caring for. However, some
incredibly complicated. We would all do
things are really important in the process of
anything for our children but when we see
helping someone’s recovery. After the
them trying to cope with the changes that an
input from the NHS is over i.e. critical
ABI can bring, the need to make it all OK
care,
again takes over. Caring for someone with an
therapy, it can (and does) feel like you’re
ABI can be frustrating, exciting, upsetting,
on your own, that you’ve been put down in
rehab,
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