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.

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Getting assessed and diagnosed Five minutes Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 4 Longer 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 1 Someone I care about 1

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

On my own 32 Both of us together 24 Involves someone else 3

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Medication and how it works 43 The cost of avoiding 15 Screens and attention 13 Systems for daily life 12 What anger actually is 10 What ADHD actually is 8 Rebuilding trust 8 Exercise, food and other supports 8 Moving your body 8 Bringing the future closer 8 Your nervous system 8 Your sense of time 8 What worry does 7 Treatment and medication 7 Facing it a step at a time 7 Knowing your partner 7 Remembering to do it 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Feelings and focus 5 Choosing your response 5 Staying regulated in conflict 5 Cool the body first 5 Emotions as signals 5 Equanimity and perspective 5 Listening and understanding 5 When everything feels flat 5 When you use something to cope 4 The moment before you snap 4 Structure and routine 4 Touch and bodywork 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Growing empathy 3 Food, caffeine and fuel 3 Shared spiritual life 3 Rituals of connection 3 Tolerate distress 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Treatment and medication 2 Being seen and judged 2 Get started 2 Shame 2 Shame and stigma 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Panic and the body 2 Grounding and settling 2 The fear underneath anger 1 Rest and pacing 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Repair after rupture 1 Practising under provocation 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1 What you are actually defending 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 When you go numb 1 Making it stick 1 Help someone grieving 1 Affection and touch 1 Feeling from the inside 1 Breathing 1 Ask and say no well 1

Approach

ADHD skills 2 Core 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 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

Ask for the old school reports every time. Some people arrive with a folder of every one they ever had, and you cannot tell in advance which people those are.

It is easy to assume that a parent who is disorganised will not have kept anything, and that assumption quietly costs you evidence. Teacher comments…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 16:43

When you explain executive function to parents and teachers, four words will do: attention, reasoning, speed, memory. Each one can be worked on, and four is a number people can still repeat at the school gate a week later.

The academic models have a dozen headings and nobody outside the field retains them. A short list gives parents something to hang observations on, so…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedCoreQur’an 2:31

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