councillors cornwall ?

[Teazymaid]

I live in cornwall and there is no councillors that specialise in TBI .. is there in any other part of the country or am I looking for something that doesn’t exist .. Sue

[cat3]

headwaycornwall.org.uk › services

Try Headway Sue. They can offer support services and signpost you to local counselling. Best wishes, Cat x

[Teazymaid in reply to cat3]

thank you cat I will try them sue x

[Nafnaf87]

Good morning Sue

In my experience it doesn’t exist but I'm sure somebody can prove the rule for us.

I am in North Wales and am fighting for everything I can still after 25 years. Yesterday had my latest appointment with my neuropsychology lady and she is organising a woodwork workshop for me - we are trying to find something to kick-start the one undamaged cell in my brain, there must be one somewhere 😉

Best wishes with your quest, keep going

Michael

[Teazymaid in reply to Nafnaf87]

hi micheal have heard back fro Headways and there are 3 head injuries councillors but they can’t recommend as I’m guessing not NHS .. plus getting help from neurology department so would need to be accessed by them sometime in the very long future .. they also recommended Relate but thoughtfully I’ve looked at them and it £75 min an hour online .. I haven’t got that sort of money so they are sending me four books that they recommend and I’m hoping to start with that these will help me understand how I am like I am .. please message them as they have given me lots of places to look for help but I have no idea how to share them on here .. anything’s worth doing including reading some books .. sue

[Nafnaf87 in reply to Teazymaid]

Good evening Sue

75 quid for an hour! If I felt safe enough to consider employment how much would I get, just over a tenner?

I have found as pre-injury self-help is best and probably most effective including getting a health-care professional on side. I am really pleased after replying to you this morning I got my workshop sorted arranging my first visit for next Friday with the chap who runs it. I let Pam know straight away and she is also pleased, as she was yesterday when I told her I was so happy to have found somebody who had my back after all these years 🙂

As I've said elsewhere regularly the only thing to do is keep going and stay optimistic

Best wishes

Michael

[Teazymaid in reply to Nafnaf87]

great news with your workshop and yes self help is the best .. Infact most of it is self help just sometimes a bit of professional help is needed to help you alone your way 😁…. Sue

[Teazymaid in reply to Nafnaf87]

this is relate costs … I was gobsmacked

Black and white

[Nafnaf87 in reply to Teazymaid]

The crazy thing is all these people highly educated at great expense come out with a load of debt and then spend their whole lives trying to afford to live. As a "professional" they join a practice in a swanky building with beautiful office equipment and highly paid secretaries (also with degrees) and then can't afford to deal with the people they were trained to help.

madness!!!

[Teazymaid in reply to Nafnaf87]

I was gobsmacked .. it is beyond a joke and that is also online so you never even see them .. total madness!

[Teazymaid]

hi micheal I will keep you posted to weather a councillor with head injury knowledge does exist .. and good luck with the woodwork course .. no wonder I get so angry with not just myself but help beyond that with the no exist help 🤔 sue

[skydivesurvivor]

try u council social services?

[Teazymaid in reply to skydivesurvivor]

yes I can get councillors CBT but someone who understands brain injury I think would help

[skydivesurvivor]

have had counciling, my old day centre got closed due to funding like others!! Have coffee with old attendees still and art at local Sally Army, this is the only brain injury place I know of good luck 🤞

[Sharon-E]

Whereabouts in my home country are you? Yes, I'm cornish

[Teazymaid in reply to Sharon-E]

near Redruth .. are you still in Cornwall??

[Sharon-E in reply to Teazymaid]

Wowwww I was born in Redruth 🙂❤️. No, sadly not. We've tried many times to return home but prices are too high out of reach

[Teazymaid in reply to Sharon-E]

I was also born here . I did move out of the county 30 years ago for about 5 years but came back . I think it’s being able to see the sea albeit in the distance from up here makes me feel like I’m on an island .. just need the sun ☀️

[Sharon-E in reply to Teazymaid]

Definitely, and what is left of our cornish celtic heritage. My beloved mother was born in Mevagissey and as children we always hiked along our clifftops, in and out of caves ...