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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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How long you have
Five minutes 1Twenty minutes 1Longer 1
Who it is written for
A practitioner 3Someone I care about 3
Where you are right now · Struggling right now
Getting ready for something 10Coping, mostly 7Struggling right now 3
On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else
On my own 10Both of us together 3Involves someone else 3
Theme · Treatment and medication
Screens and attention 13The cost of avoiding 11Medication and how it works 8What ADHD actually is 5Systems for daily life 5What worry does 4Grounding and settling 4Breaking the worry loop 4Reading, numbers and learning differences 4What anger actually is 3Remembering to do it 3Posture and how you carry yourself 3Feelings and focus 3Your nervous system 3Treatment and medication 3Shame and stigma 2Emotions as signals 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 2Moving your body 2Structure and routine 2The moment before you snap 2Touch and bodywork 2Treatment and medication 1Shame 1Your sense of time 1Rest and pacing 1Practising under provocation 1Exercise, food and other supports 1Obsessions and compulsions 1When you go numb 1Get started 1Feeling from the inside 1Growing empathy 1Food, caffeine and fuel 1When you use something to cope 1Cool the body first 1Choosing your response 1Bringing the future closer 1
Approach
ADHD skills 2Medical and treatment 1
When
In a change 1Any ordinary day 1After a row 1

The point of explaining ADHD to a parent is to produce a particular kind of parent: one who is kind about it, quick to forgive the day's failures, and willing to make a nuisance of themselves at school.

Those three are results, not manners. Harsh days breed pushing back, pushing back breeds harsher days, and that loop is the main road from ADHD to a…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

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

The most convincing programme for teenagers does the obvious thing. It runs at school, twice a week, so nobody has to be driven anywhere: homework systems, organisation, some social practice and sport, in the place where the trouble actually happens.

By the teenage years the leverage parents had is thinning, and a clinic appointment is the first thing to fall off the week. Putting the help inside…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

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