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.

Narrowed down

4 practices

Getting assessed and diagnosed Someone I care about Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 1 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 2

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 10 Someone I care about 4 Me 4

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 3 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

Involves someone else 4 On my own 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Medication and how it works 40 Systems for daily life 35 The cost of avoiding 34 Screens and attention 25 Moving your body 21 Treatment and medication 18 Exercise, food and other supports 13 What ADHD actually is 12 Your sense of time 11 Feelings and focus 11 Breaking the worry loop 11 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 Your nervous system 10 Structure and routine 9 What worry does 9 What anger actually is 9 Facing it a step at a time 8 Grounding and settling 8 Reading, numbers and learning differences 6 Choosing your response 6 Get started 6 Bringing the future closer 5 Shame and stigma 5 The moment before you snap 5 Breathing 5 When you use something to cope 5 Equanimity and perspective 4 Getting assessed and diagnosed 4 Emotions as signals 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Remembering to do it 3 Making it stick 3 Cool the body first 3 When everything feels flat 3 What you are actually defending 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Help someone grieving 2 Tolerate distress 2 The fear underneath anger 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Growing empathy 2 Rest and pacing 1 Practising under provocation 1 Being seen and judged 1

When

Under stress 2 After a row 1 In a change 1

Home DNA tests turn up relatives nobody expected. If someone is thinking of taking one to fill in a blank family history, it is worth saying out loud that it may hand them more than they asked for.

People find half siblings. Sometimes they find that the story they were told about their birth was not the story. That is a great deal to receive by…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 50:16

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

When a child with attention difficulties is also at war with every instruction, that pairing is worth taking to someone early rather than waiting to see whether it settles.

The two travel together often, and a minority of children follow a path from constant defiance into more serious trouble later. Every stage of that…

LongerGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 2:216

When a child truly does not mind losing the privilege, taking more away will not get you anywhere. That is the moment to change approach rather than raise the stakes, usually to a structured parent programme that works on the pattern between parent and child.

Star charts fail with these children because the reward was never the point of the behaviour. What helps is a proper course of parent management…

LongerGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 3:159

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