Brain Injury is traumatic. This section gives an insight into how it can feel .

Radio & TV links

Headlong BBC radio4

Even a minor head injury can result in long term problems, as a result of damage to the brain. Edi Stark talks to patients about their struggle with mild brain injury.

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Case Notes BBC radio4 - Head Injury

Dr Mark Porter discovers how these injuries are treated today. He also finds out what happens during rehabilitation and the consequences for the people who had the accidents and their families.

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Womens Hour BBC Radio4 Podcast 14 March 07

Life after Brain Injury 

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Brainbox Challenge Quiz Games

Games to help the brain improve. Try and retry them.

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Poems

I felt

I felt so low.

I didn't know where to go.

I felt so sad.

It was making me bad.


I felt so alone and isolated.

I'd get so frustrated.


I felt so depressed.

It was getting others stressed.


I felt so misunderstood

I was worthless and no good.


I felt I couldn't cope.

I would sit and mope.


I felt I wanted to die.

Its in my head and I can?t understand Why.

©CS 2005

Why


Why has this happened to me?

I was happy and content and the world was great and what a wonderful future I could see.



I have a fall.

I don't remember anything at all.


I was taken to hospital. I had a fractured Skull, a broken arm, a broken ear and a bleed in my Brain.

Since it happened I felt like I was going insane.


I would be fine, then not, I would cry, I would get angry, then I would be fine, then it would start again, it would go round and round.

All this because I fell down the stairs and hit my head on the ground.


I did my best, but my best wasn't good enough.

I found living life really tough.


I have no will and the future seems grim and unclear.

Everyday is a strain and I don't know how long I can live in fear.


I am lost in the fog, stuck in a hole, I cannot lie.

Alls I can think is why has this happened to me. Why, Why, Why.

©CS2005

Climbing a mountain

I must climb this mountain, this mountain so high.
When I reach the top I might just about be able to touch the sky.

So far on this journey up the mountain I have fallen back down a few times and I had hoped that I might die.
Or have been feeling so sad and alone and just wanted to sit and cry.

People don't understand what has happened to me and it is then that I want to give up because this journey is long.
Without other people's help and understanding I cannot be strong.

Please try to understand and listen to me because sometimes I need to talk.
As that makes me feel a little better and can help me on this long walk.


I really know that I can't make everyone understand how I feel.
I just want people to know that this isn?t my fault and this illness is for real.

I know it's hard to imagine what is going on in my head.
This mountain is high and the road up it is long, please don't abandon me, just be there for me instead.

Sometimes I have crawled up the mountain on my own and have pretended that everything is alright.
People don't know that I cry and can think of the worst in the middle of night.

I know that this thought in my head brings out my worst fears.
I am also well aware that for that for the brain to heal itself could take years and years.

These feelings of anger, sadness and wanted to be quiet and alone.

I hope at my journey's end these feelings will be gone and my strength has grown.

For years I will travel up this mountain to reach the top.
I hope that when I get there the future will be bright and I will be happy and those bad and awful feelings will stop.
©cs2005