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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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2 practicesTheme · Shame and stigma
How long you have · A minute
When · Under stress
Some people will not believe this exists whatever you show them. You are allowed to give a short honest answer and then let the conversation go.
Keep one or two plain facts ready for people who are genuinely curious, because that conversation is often worth having. It is a different…
Before you offer anyone the upside of their ADHD, say the hard part out loud first. One patient's answer to being told it was a gift was to ask where he could return it.
A reframe offered too early does not sound hopeful, it sounds like you were not listening. Name the cost in specifics, the job that went, the…