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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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6 practices
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Area
Focus, starting, and ADHD 4Worry and anxiety 1Your body 1
How long you have
A minute 1Twenty minutes 2Longer 3
Who it is written for
A practitioner 6Someone I care about 5Me 5
Where you are right now · Struggling right now
Getting ready for something 19Coping, mostly 10Struggling right now 6
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 23Involves someone else 6Both of us together 1
Theme
Systems for daily life 2Medication and how it works 1Obsessions and compulsions 1Treatment and medication 1Your nervous system 1
Approach
ADHD skills 3Medical and treatment 1Body based 1CBT 1
When · In a change
Under stress 39Any ordinary day 36After a row 18In a change 6When apart 4Coming and going 3

With attention difficulties the organising side often runs a few years behind the birthday. A nineteen year old may be running life more like a sixteen year old, and that is a lag rather than a verdict.

Set expectations against where someone actually is instead of what year they were born in. That way the support that felt normal at school does not…

A minuteSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 65:7

The next step has to be theirs. A job that looks like nothing to you might be the first thing in two years they chose without being pushed, and that is exactly why it holds.

Parents tend to want the step that recovers the lost ground. The young person needs the step they can actually take on Monday. Shifts in a shop, one…

LongerSystems for daily lifeADHD skillsQur’an 12:55

Treat the first fortnight as a stretch that needs contact rather than silence. Say plainly that things may feel worse before they feel better, and arrange to hear from the person during that window instead of after it.

This is when most people quietly stop. Somebody who has been warned experiences a rough two weeks as expected; somebody who has not experiences it as…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 3:159

If every step you try keeps not working, however small you make it, that is information rather than failure. A more intensive programme is the next thing to look at, and it should be put to you as an option.

The whole point of shrinking the steps is to find one that moves. When nothing moves at any size, staying in the same weekly arrangement out of…

LongerObsessions and compulsionsCBTQur’an 2:45

Move the family's picture from a child who will not do as they are asked to a child whose capacity for holding themselves in place is genuinely limited. It is a change of category, not a softening.

The moral version has a quiet arrogance in it, the assumption that the child could manage if only they cared enough, and everyone in the house can…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 24:61

When someone finally reaches somewhere safe, do not be surprised if they fall apart rather than bloom. Stay close through that part.

People who have lived on high alert often start grieving once the danger stops, and it can look like going backwards: more tears, more fear about the…

LongerYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 106:4

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