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How long you have
Five minutes 3Twenty minutes 1
Who it is written for · Me
A practitioner 13Someone I care about 12Me 4
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 3Struggling right now 1
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 42Involves someone else 4Both of us together 2
Theme · What ADHD actually is
Medication and how it works 47Systems for daily life 26Staying regulated in conflict 24Knowing your partner 15Rebuilding trust 14Affection and touch 13Moving your body 13Listening and understanding 12Repair after rupture 11Rituals of connection 11Answering bids 11Food, caffeine and fuel 10Shared spiritual life 10The moment before you snap 10Breaking the worry loop 10Screens and attention 9What anger actually is 8Treatment and medication 7Growing empathy 7Your nervous system 7Feelings and focus 7Choosing your response 7Bringing the future closer 7Grounding and settling 6Remembering to do it 6The cost of avoiding 6Breathing 6Get started 6Exercise, food and other supports 5Posture and how you carry yourself 5Facing it a step at a time 5Treatment and medication 5Equanimity and perspective 5What worry does 4What ADHD actually is 4Structure and routine 4When everything feels flat 4Cool the body first 4When you use something to cope 4Getting assessed and diagnosed 4Your sense of time 3Tolerate distress 3Practising under provocation 3Emotions as signals 3Being seen and judged 3Panic and the body 2Shame 2Rest and pacing 2Help someone grieving 2Touch and bodywork 2Fondness and admiration 2Ask and say no well 2What you are actually defending 2Gratitude 2Living with uncertainty 1The fear underneath anger 1Obsessions and compulsions 1Making it stick 1When you go numb 1Validate yourself and others 1Safety and grounding 1
When
Any ordinary day 3After a row 1

When you explain ADHD to someone who does not have it, describe the effort rather than the outcome. Not that the form is unfinished, but what twenty minutes of trying to fill it in actually took out of you.

Most people around you are judging the visible result, because that is all they can see. One concrete picture of the inside of an ordinary task…

Five minutesWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 50:16

The teenager with ADHD is often the one who admits it while everyone else produces a story. That is not worse judgement about right and wrong, it is less thinking ahead about how it will land.

Parents can read a caution or a suspension as proof of a moral problem, when the honesty in the room points the other way. Instead of a lecture,…

Five minutesWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 17:11

Some families make it a house rule that driving happens only on a day the medication has been taken. It works because it ties a privilege to safety rather than to obedience.

Set it with the young person rather than at them, and be clear it is about the road and not about whether you trust them. It also moves medication…

Five minutesWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 16:43

If work keeps going wrong in the same way, ask for the expectations in writing before the next thing goes wrong. What is obvious to a manager is often not obvious to you, and a written version can be checked.

It might be a list of what counts as done, agreed deadlines, or the safety rules that are not negotiable. Adjustments are worth asking for too:…

Twenty minutesWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 4:28

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