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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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Getting assessed and diagnosed Core Under stress Clear all

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Screens and attention 5 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 1

Approach · Core

ADHD skills 6 Core 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 13 In a change 2 Coming and going 1 Under stress 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