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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 · Treatment and medication

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 Twenty minutes 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 5 After a row 1 Under stress 1 Coming and going 1

About this theme

This explains how treatments work. Never start, stop or change a medication because of something you read here.

Somebody will eventually ask you whether you want what is best for your child. It is a sales line, and knowing that in advance is most of what you need to withstand it.

Parents of a newly diagnosed child are frightened, motivated and often exhausted, which is exactly the state that gets marketed to. The question is…

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