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Focus, starting, and ADHD

Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.

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Core Five minutes Under stress Clear all

Theme

Screens and attention 1 Getting assessed and diagnosed 1

How long you have · Five minutes

Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 4 Longer 2

Approach · Core

ADHD skills 19 Medical and treatment 6 CBT 3 Core 2

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 30 Under stress 2 In a change 1 Coming and going 1 After a row 1

Expect more anxiety, low mood, drinking and drug use in the young people coming through now. And expect the boys to say less about it, so go looking for irritability, trouble and substances instead of waiting to be told.

Ask parents what they are seeing rather than only what they have been told, and ask the young person directly and privately. Screening that rests on…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedCoreQur’an 21:83

Real footage of people dying circulates without any warning, sometimes buried inside a video that starts off looking harmless. Young people rarely raise this themselves, so it is worth asking.

Ask plainly what they have come across that they wish they had not seen, and how often it happens. There is no preparation before it and nothing…

Five minutesScreens and attentionCoreQur’an 24:30