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How long you have · A minute
A minute 7Five minutes 43Twenty minutes 8Longer 3
Who it is written for
A practitioner 7Me 6Someone I care about 3
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 5Getting ready for something 2
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 16Involves someone else 7Both of us together 2
Theme · Medication and how it works
Staying regulated in conflict 14Affection and touch 12Systems for daily life 10The cost of avoiding 9Answering bids 9Listening and understanding 7Medication and how it works 7Grounding and settling 7Repair after rupture 7The moment before you snap 5Knowing your partner 5Treatment and medication 5Rituals of connection 4Breathing 4Structure and routine 4Posture and how you carry yourself 3Rebuilding trust 3Moving your body 3When everything feels flat 2Emotions as signals 2Food, caffeine and fuel 2Cool the body first 2Choosing your response 2Your sense of time 2What anger actually is 2Equanimity and perspective 2Making it stick 2Gratitude 2Fondness and admiration 2Practising under provocation 2Treatment and medication 2Being seen and judged 1Ask and say no well 1What you are actually defending 1Exercise, food and other supports 1Safety and grounding 1Screens and attention 1Shame and stigma 1Shared spiritual life 1Tolerate distress 1Touch and bodywork 1The fear underneath anger 1Validate yourself and others 1Obsessions and compulsions 1Breaking the worry loop 1Your nervous system 1Help someone grieving 1Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Get started 1Feelings and focus 1Feeling from the inside 1Bringing the future closer 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 6ADHD skills 1
When
Any ordinary day 6In a change 1

If a young driver in your house takes medication, the dose and the car keys belong together. Driving is the everyday task where one lost second costs the most.

The gap tends to open at weekends and in the holidays, when the dose gets skipped because there is no school and then someone drives anyway. Make it…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:68

If swallowing the capsule is the sticking point, ask whether yours is the bead type that can be opened and tipped onto a spoonful of soft food. The little beads go down unchewed and the medicine still lasts as long as it should.

Inside these capsules sit lots of coated pellets, some with thin coats that dissolve early and some with thicker coats that dissolve later, which is…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 5:6

There is now a version taken in the evening that only switches on around nine hours later, so it is already working when you wake. The point of it is the morning, not the night.

Most families know the first hour of the day as the worst one, because the tablet taken at breakfast has not started yet and everyone still has to…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

Saying that medication helps is not the same as saying everyone should be on it. If you have walked in braced for a push, it is fine to say so at the start.

Plenty of people do well with sleep, movement, work that suits them and someone in their corner, and plenty of people need all of that and a tablet…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 7:31

Writing 'do not substitute' on a prescription tells the pharmacist what to hand over. It does not tell an insurer to pay for it, and that surprise at the counter is where a lot of prescriptions quietly get abandoned.

If a particular brand is being chosen for a reason, say out loud what it might cost and what the fallback is if the price turns out to be impossible.…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:67

Most long acting stimulant capsules hold two sorts of beads, one that dissolves straight away and one coated to dissolve later. That is the whole reason a single morning capsule can do what used to need a lunchtime dose as well.

It matters because the midday dose was the one that got missed, and missing it was rarely carelessness. A dose that has to be remembered in the…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

Long acting stimulants are the usual starting point for a plain reason: they cover the most hours and they remove the lunchtime dose, which is the dose ADHD is most likely to swallow whole.

Remembering a tablet in the middle of a busy day is itself an executive task, so asking for it is asking the person to do the thing they came for…

A minuteMedication and how it worksADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

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