Practices

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Medication and how it works Involves someone else ADHD skills Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 2

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

Both of us together 6 Involves someone else 3 On my own 2

Theme · Medication and how it works

Systems for daily life 37 What ADHD actually is 13 Your sense of time 11 Structure and routine 10 Feelings and focus 10 Bringing the future closer 9 Getting assessed and diagnosed 7 Get started 7 Remembering to do it 6 Shame and stigma 5 Treatment and medication 5 Screens and attention 4 Medication and how it works 3 Rest and pacing 2

Approach · ADHD skills

Medical and treatment 58 ADHD skills 3

When

Any ordinary day 2 In a change 1

Long acting stimulants are the usual starting point for a plain reason: they cover the most hours and they remove the lunchtime dose, which is the dose ADHD is most likely to swallow whole.

Remembering a tablet in the middle of a busy day is itself an executive task, so asking for it is asking the person to do the thing they came for…

A minuteMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

For most people who get as far as asking for help with ADHD, medication is the single change that shifts the most. It is not compulsory and plenty live well without it, and it does deserve an honest look rather than a place at the back of the queue.

The reason is unglamorous. Nearly every strategy anyone teaches assumes you can pause before responding, hold a plan in mind while doing something…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 26:80

If you are not the one prescribing, you can still take an active part in the medication conversation. You see the person weekly and hold the ordinary detail their prescriber never gets to see.

Ask what they notice and write it down in their own words. With their permission, send the prescriber a short note that can be read in a minute: when…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 42:38

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