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

5 practices

Shame and stigma Someone I care about Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 2

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 5 Someone I care about 5

Where you are right now

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

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 29 Involves someone else 5

Theme · Shame and stigma

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

When

Any ordinary day 3 Under stress 2

Before you offer anyone the upside of their ADHD, say the hard part out loud first. One patient's answer to being told it was a gift was to ask where he could return it.

A reframe offered too early does not sound hopeful, it sounds like you were not listening. Name the cost in specifics, the job that went, the…

A minuteShame and stigmaADHD skillsQur’an 20:44

Before you explain anything about ADHD to someone, ask what they already think it is. What they tell you decides what your explanation can land on.

People arrive with family stories, cultural rules about mental health and firm views about medication, and none of it shows up unless you invite it.…

Five minutesShame and stigmaADHD skillsQur’an 20:44

By the time somebody comes for an assessment, the poor opinion of themselves is usually decades old. Assume it is there even when the person in front of you is visibly doing well.

It rarely arrives as a complaint. It shows up as apologising for taking up your time, as brushing off achievements, as a joke about being useless…

Five minutesShame and stigmaADHD skillsQur’an 6:54

When a young person with ADHD goes through a first breakup or loses a friendship group, stay closer than usual. Do not wait for the next arranged contact.

Rejection lands harder here, and impulsivity shortens the gap between feeling unbearable and acting on it. A short unannounced check in, a lift…

Twenty minutesShame and stigmaADHD skillsQur’an 39:53

With children, acting a situation out teaches far more than talking about it. Play the scene, swap roles, get it wrong, do it again.

Explaining social rules to a child who missed them leans on the same steady attention that let them slip past in the first place. Rehearsal skips…

Twenty minutesShame and stigmaADHD skillsQur’an 2:83

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