About
About Good Brain Day
A free, independent site about living with a brain injury, a friendly and helpful resource built for anyone who needs it.
A free, independent site about living with a brain injury.
What this site is
Good Brain Day brings together suggestions, tools, and advice that can help when living with a brain injury, a simple explanation of what it all means, and details of organisations and charities who can support you locally and around the world.
It's written for both those living with a brain injury, and for the family, friends, and carers around them.
Everything here is free. There's no account to make and no adverts, and nothing you type into the tools ever leaves your own device. Visits are counted with Google Analytics, but only if you accept the cookie notice.
It isn't a charity and it isn't funded by anyone. Organisations are listed because they look genuinely useful, not because they've paid to be there. (Please note, I have not had direct experience with all/most of the listed organisations, but they are all highly recommended in the countries they reside.)
What it isn't
It isn't medical advice, and it can't replace being assessed by a doctor, neurologist, neuropsychologist or rehabilitation team.
If you're worried about symptoms, please speak to a health professional.
Built for a bad brain day
Most health information is written as though the reader is at their best. This one assumes the opposite.
Make it simple
The 'Good Brain Day' / 'Bad Brain Day' check-in at the top changes what's on the page, with shorter text in smaller blocks, as well as changing the font size and simplifying the layout.
Easy to read text
Set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed by the Braille Institute for readers with low vision, and Lexend, designed to reduce visual stress.
Three colour settings
Cool, warm and dark, for light sensitivity and screen-triggered headaches. Text size adjusts separately, site-wide.
Nothing you type leaves your device
The tools run entirely in your own browser, with no server involved. Nothing you enter is uploaded, stored or tracked, and there is no account to make.
We explain for you
Whole sections exist so you can send them to someone instead of explaining it all yourself when you haven't got the energy.
Why I made it
I'm Josh. I used to be a professional science and wildlife documentary camera and drone operator, filming for the likes of BBC, Netflix, Disney, Apple, PBS, etc.
Five years ago whilst on a shoot in the Italian Alps I fell 300 feet in an accident that completely changed my life. The fall resulted in a long list of serious bodily injuries including multiple breaks to my neck, back, pelvis and a lot more, as well as multiple breaks to my skull and a brain bleed, leading to an 8 day coma.
I was incredibly lucky to be up and walking again (albeit with walking aids) just a few months later, but it was only as I began to overcome some of the more significant physical injuries that I started to become more aware of the extent of the impact of my brain injury.
I was very fortunate to live in an area of the UK home to one of the top NHS brain injury departments, where I spent 18 months meeting with some fantastic specialists who helped me understand my brain injury and how to better manage myself.
Whilst attending group sessions with the head injury therapy unit, I realised I was more aware of how I could use technology around me to help with many of the effects of my brain injury than many of the others there, and I wanted to try and contribute to the TBI community who has helped me so much in getting me to where I am today.
That is why I set up Good Brain Day, in the hope that it can help answer questions for those who have landed in the world of brain injuries through themselves or a loved one, to offer potential sources of local support, and to try and share my own tips for what I've found that has helped me.
If there's something missing, something wrong, or an organisation that ought to be listed, I'd like to hear about it.
A note on accuracy
I'm not a doctor or a clinician. Everything here is drawing on my own experience living with a brain injury myself, from what I learned from the specialists who treated me, and from other valuable information online.
If you spot something wrong or out of date, please tell me and I'll fix it.
If it has helped
Good Brain Day is free and always will be, and there are no adverts anywhere on it. It is made and paid for by one person in his own time.
If it has been useful to you and you would like to say thank you, you can buy me a coffee ↗. There is absolutely no obligation, and nothing on the site is hidden behind it.