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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 A minute Under stress Clear all

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Bringing the future closer 4 Feelings and focus 4 Shame and stigma 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 1 Medication and how it works 1 Treatment and medication 1 What ADHD actually is 1 Systems for daily life 1 Your sense of time 1

How long you have · A minute

A minute 1 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 2 Longer 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 8 Coming and going 2 Under stress 1

When someone says their heart races on their medication, ask whether it ever did before they started. It is the cheapest question you have and it usually sorts the answer out.

Go looking for the old settings: waiting to be called on in class, standing outside a room before a difficult conversation, three in the morning with…

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