Brain Drain: Wake up to fatigue!

A key aim of the Brain Drain campaign is to give brain injury survivors tools to help them to better explain their fatigue to those around them.
This film features brain injury survivor Candice Ridley, who attends Headway Nottingham. It aims to give viewers a brain injury survivor’s perspective of typical everyday scenarios and interactions that they can face as a result of their fatigue being misunderstood.
In addition, Candice shares her experience of brain injury-related fatigue in more detail in an accompanying short film, which will form part of Headway’s Brain injury and me series of personal testimonies.
We would like to say a big thank you to Candice, and also actors Hazi Mistry, Katherine Butterfield and Megan Leask-Walters for volunteering their time to appear in the film.

[@98Blackbess]

Exactly. Spot on. 100% correct.

[@jennyhughes4474]

Thanks for this: this mega exhaustion after 'little/easy' tasks (such as washing up or shopping or form-filling or lying on a beach...) is so misunderstood and people's reactions and disbelief hurt so very much. I push myself (often too much) so hard to try to do it all - then collapse and pay for it for days after. We don't need others to pile on yet MORE tasks please and try to help lesson our already too-heavy loads, thank you.

[@elliotcox3831]

Oh yes. Wish it was better understood, this fatigue.

[@dalegilbertson7756]

It is shame people can't see what it is like with head trauma or injury. I suffer from a brain injury as a well.
I have realised over the years though, since the accident, nobody is perfect and would be nice to hear other peoples story.

[@debblackmore7460]

Bless keep going never give up even thou many have or will on you doing amazing dont beat yourself up keep strong keep positive sending luck and love from headway Nottingham UK x