Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

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7 practices

Treatment and medication A practitioner Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have

A minute 5 Five minutes 2

Who it is written for · A practitioner

A practitioner 7 Me 5

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 4 Getting ready for something 2 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 24 Involves someone else 7

Theme · Treatment and medication

Medication and how it works 61 Systems for daily life 37 The cost of avoiding 35 Screens and attention 26 Moving your body 21 Treatment and medication 19 Exercise, food and other supports 15 What ADHD actually is 13 What anger actually is 12 Breaking the worry loop 11 Feelings and focus 11 Getting assessed and diagnosed 10 Your sense of time 10 Structure and routine 10 Facing it a step at a time 10 What worry does 10 Your nervous system 10 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 The moment before you snap 9 Grounding and settling 9 Bringing the future closer 8 Growing empathy 7 Breathing 7 Treatment and medication 7 When everything feels flat 7 Get started 7 Cool the body first 7 Choosing your response 7 Equanimity and perspective 7 Emotions as signals 7 Reading, numbers and learning differences 6 Posture and how you carry yourself 5 When you use something to cope 5 Shame and stigma 5 Touch and bodywork 4 Tolerate distress 4 Remembering to do it 4 Being seen and judged 3 Making it stick 3 Obsessions and compulsions 3 Panic and the body 3 Practising under provocation 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Rest and pacing 2 Feeling from the inside 2 The fear underneath anger 2 Shame 2 Living with uncertainty 1 When you go numb 1

When

Any ordinary day 4 In a change 2 Under stress 1

Sleeping tablets, sedatives, antihistamines and alcohol all pull on the same brake. Whoever is prescribing needs the whole list, including the things that do not feel like medicine.

People rarely mention a nightly drink or a sleep aid bought off the shelf, because neither feels like part of the treatment. Together they can add up…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

If you have been given a drug from one category for a problem in another, it is fair to ask which part of it is doing the work. Often the useful effect is a side effect that has been borrowed.

The common example is an antipsychotic given in a small dose for sleep, where the drowsiness comes from its antihistamine action rather than from…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:7

Saying that you do not know, and then showing where you would look, beats an answer improvised on the spot. It also teaches the person asking how to check things for themselves.

Name the limit, name the source you would go to, and offer to come back with what you find. Systematic reviews and an ordinary scholarly search will…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 16:43

These medicines work on a timescale of four to six weeks, not days. Say the number out loud at the start, because someone expecting relief this week will have decided by Friday that it failed.

Something does happen on the first day, but it is only the first step of a change that takes weeks to finish. The useful version of this is a date:…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 20:114

Describe what the first fortnight might feel like before the first tablet, not after the first worried phone call. A warning given in advance turns a bad week into a milestone.

The wording can be plain. Some people feel more wound up for the first week or ten days, it usually passes, and nobody changes anything without…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:87

Wanting it to stop right now is not a character flaw, it is what anxiety does to a person. Saying the hurry out loud, instead of acting on it quietly, keeps it from making the decisions.

That urgency is the reason people creep a dose up, hop between supplements, and abandon anything slow before it has had a chance. Treating the hurry…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:83

The dose that lifts low mood is often not enough for anxiety, and for obsessive symptoms it is usually well short. Needing more of it is a feature of the problem rather than anything wrong with the person taking it.

This matters because a fair trial of something has to include a fair dose. A person can spend eight weeks on a starting amount, decide the medicine…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

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