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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
Medication and how it works 177Systems for daily life 114Getting assessed and diagnosed 93Get started 74Treatment and medication 71Feelings and focus 66Your sense of time 66What ADHD actually is 65Screens and attention 62Exercise, food and other supports 61Bringing the future closer 60Structure and routine 36Shame and stigma 35Reading, numbers and learning differences 34Remembering to do it 27Self-compassion 12Use your strengths 10Work with your brain 2Get it out of your head 2
How long you have
A minute 7Five minutes 31Twenty minutes 18Longer 6
Approach
ADHD skills 20Core 18CBT 17Medical and treatment 7
When
Any ordinary day 44Under stress 8After a row 6When apart 2Coming and going 1Something good 1

Pick one series and watch it together on the same evening each week. The point is not the programme. It is that something puts the two of you in the same room on purpose.

With an older teenager or a young adult, a set night can carry a relationship through stretches when talking is hard. Some weeks you will pause it…

LongerScreens and attentionCBTQur’an 33:35

There is a rough ladder for tech overuse. Build a schedule together with some outside control at first, add substitutes once the person can stop for a while, then more intensive care, and residential only when someone is entirely taken over by it.

The order matters more than the rungs. You cannot install a better alternative in someone who has no capacity yet to put the thing down, so a bit of…

LongerScreens and attentionADHD skillsQur’an 17:110