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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 · Getting assessed and diagnosed
Systems for daily life 4Feelings and focus 3Screens and attention 3Getting assessed and diagnosed 2Reading, numbers and learning differences 2Remembering to do it 1Treatment and medication 1Medication and how it works 1Get started 1Shame and stigma 1Exercise, food and other supports 1
How long you have · Twenty minutes
A minute 1Five minutes 3Twenty minutes 2Longer 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 10Coming and going 4Under stress 2In a change 1

Attention and impulse problems that appear for the first time in middle age or later are not ADHD arriving late. They need a doctor to look, not a prescription.

Several conditions affecting the frontal lobes can show up first as new disinhibition, poor judgement or a change in personality, and some are…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:7

Ask for the most frightening moment of their life, then the next one down, then the next, until there is a scale running from one to a hundred. You get the ladder you needed, and they get something they did not expect: fear comes in sizes.

Do it slowly and write it in their words rather than yours. Most people arrive believing anxiety is one solid block that either has hold of them or…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:83