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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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Theme · Screens and attention
Treatment and medication 10Feelings and focus 8Medication and how it works 7Systems for daily life 6Getting assessed and diagnosed 3Exercise, food and other supports 3Reading, numbers and learning differences 3Use your strengths 3Shame and stigma 2Screens and attention 2Structure and routine 1Self-compassion 1What ADHD actually is 1
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Core 1CBT 1
When · Any ordinary day
Under stress 3Any ordinary day 2When apart 1

One client took two years of steady work to get a single app off her phone. If you are three weeks in and it is still there, you are not doing this wrong.

Change here is slower than nearly everyone expects, including the people helping. Saying so early protects both sides: you do not read a slow month…

LongerScreens and attentionCoreQur’an 31:19

Try one hour with the phone away and out of reach, then talk about what came up. The hour itself is the information.

What surfaces is usually specific and useful. The twenty minute mark where the hand starts moving. The exact worry about what is being missed. The…

LongerScreens and attentionCBTQur’an 62:9