Health is Your Wealth Magazine ISSUE 2, 2018

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MENTAL HEALTH

MANAGE YOUR CONDITION

IMPROVE COGNITION

IMPROVING AWARENESS

THERAPY

RELATIONSHIPS

Contents

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Editors message

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IMPROVING AWARENESS

MANAGE YOUR CONDITION

HEADWAY Derby - News

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Disability Benefits - Headway

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Derby Hospital Study Day

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Multi-tasking

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RELATIONSHIPS

Children With Developmental Needs

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Admitting Your Wrong

58

Importance of a Routine

11

Why we should sit less

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Book Review

60

White Bread OR Brown Bread?

18

Movie Review

61

Subscriptions

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REVIEWS & SUBSCRIPTIONS

IMPROVE COGNITION Brain Training

22

Key Contacts

63

Application Reviews

27

Increasing Awareness

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MENTAL HEALTH How to regain a Sense of Purpose How to turn a BAD day to GOOD

30 Your Business Could Advertise or in

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THERAPY

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Editors

Readers Letters …

Message

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Please note some of these articles are written by patients who are still in recovery. These articles are deliberately unchanged and may contain spelling,

Brain Injury isn't a barrel

punctuation and grammar mistakes.

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Manage YOUR Condition

YOU Are In CONTROL

follow what’s going on Coronation Street, or singing along to the radio whilst following the sat navigation in

Multitasking

the car. Things that we take for granted, and that come naturally to most people.

Since my brain injury, I regularly

“Men Can’t Multitask” - it’s the age

undercook or overcook the dinner. I need

old adage, insinuating that women can

to write a list of what needs to go in the oven at what time, or I can guarantee it

phone conversation whilst keeping one

won’t work! My son finds it highly

eye on the kids and simultaneously

amusing that I now have to turn the

following a recipe and whipping up a 3

radio off in the car to concentrate - I’m

course meal... whoever first perpetrated

fine with it if I’m driving a familiar

this myth clearly ain’t met me!

route, but I can’t look where I’m going and have noise happening at the same

In a previous life, I could happily sit at

time.

my desk at work holding an important phone call and working on something on

I can’t read, or write, anything with the

the pc at the same time, or cook 3

television on or any distractions. Just

different things, all with different

writing this article has taken several

timings and ingredients, whilst helping

attempts as I need silence; the building

my son with his homework and doing

site down the road drilling, or my

the packed lunches for the next day, something

so

simple

as

have

neighbours dogs barking is enough to

a

completely lose my train of thought. I

conversation whilst still managing to 5

used to be able to half heartedly do

Managing Your Condition

juggle 101 different tasks; holding a

several things at once, but now my brain

that I know will be mentally draining to

can only concentrate on one thing at a

do,

time.

I plan a lazy day afterwards. I pre-warn

It’s most frustrating when I’m out with a

anyone getting in my car that I cannot

group of friends and everyone is taking

have a conversation and follow the sat

at the same time, maybe in a busy

navigation at the same time, so if they

public place with lots of background

want to get where we’re going on time,

noise, as I really struggle to follow any

it’s in their best interest to be mindful of

one conversation, and I end up with a

this!

massive headache from the effort of

That’s the hardest part though

trying to process it all. I call it my social

admitting to other people that I can no

hangover, as I know any situations

longer handle things that they know I

where I need to concentrate on more

used to be able to do standing on my

than one thing will completely overload

head (whilst driving, cooking, chatting,

my brain and I’ll be left feeling like I’ve

reading...), but the more times I say it,

been on a bender, which is ironic as I

the easier it gets. I’m slowly but surely

just can’t handle my drink nowadays!

accepting that this particular woman

I have ways of coping - I make lists, lots

just can’t multitask!

of lists, so as I have a visual reminder of what I need to do and when. I set alarms on my phone to tell me when dinner will

Jill, TBI survivor, UK

be cooked, or when I need to stop doing one thing and start another. I organise my days so that if I’ve got something

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