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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
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Area
Focus, starting, and ADHD 4Worry and anxiety 3
How long you have · Five minutes
A minute 8Five minutes 7Twenty minutes 11Longer 9
Who it is written for
A practitioner 7Someone I care about 5Me 3
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 4Getting ready for something 3
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 37Involves someone else 7Both of us together 2
Theme
The cost of avoiding 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Medication and how it works 1Treatment and medication 1Living with uncertainty 1What ADHD actually is 1
Approach
CBT 3Medical and treatment 2ADHD skills 2
When · In a change
Any ordinary day 191After a row 39Under stress 38Coming and going 18In a change 7When apart 3

Two stretches of childhood carry most of this: the first years of school, and the middle years around the move to secondary. Knowing that lets you prepare instead of react.

The early wobble is usually about being apart from home for a long day for the first time. The later one lands when peer opinion becomes the loudest…

Five minutesThe cost of avoidingCBTQur’an 3:186

Every adjustment should arrive with the date you will start reducing it. Written down at the beginning, while everyone is still reasonable.

Supports meant as a bridge have a way of becoming the new normal, and by the spring nobody remembers they were temporary. Decide at the outset what…

Five minutesThe cost of avoidingCBTQur’an 29:69

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

When you are weighing up whether a teenager is ready for something, it helps to think in two thirds. A fifteen year old may be handling responsibility more like a twelve or thirteen year old.

This is not an insult and it should never be delivered as one. It is a way of explaining why a privilege arrives later here than for their friends,…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

Hear this before you start rather than after: change here is gradual. Habits built over twenty years do not come apart in three weeks.

Waiting is genuinely harder with ADHD, and a treatment whose reward is months away is exactly the sort of thing that gets dropped in week five.…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 20:114

When a decision feels impossible, put a date on it rather than pressing for the commitment. We will try this and look at it again in three months turns a life sentence back into a choice.

Plenty of people hear any decision as permanent, so picking a course or a job or a city feels like sentencing themselves to it. A review date changes…

Five minutesLiving with uncertaintyCBTQur’an 18:23

If a young person says they do not feel ready to drive, take that as information rather than something to talk them out of. Plenty of them know their own attention better than the adults around them do.

Waiting a year is not a failure, and there are other ways to get about. Do ask what sits behind it, because there is a difference between a sober…

Five minutesWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 70:19

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