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How long you have
Five minutes 3Longer 1
Who it is written for
A practitioner 4Me 3Someone I care about 1
Where you are right now
Getting ready for something 2Struggling right now 1Coping, mostly 1
On your own, or with someone · On my own
On my own 4Involves someone else 2
Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed
What ADHD actually is 12When everything feels flat 8Medication and how it works 6Getting assessed and diagnosed 4Systems for daily life 4Your nervous system 4Moving your body 3Bringing the future closer 3What anger actually is 2Self-compassion 2When you use something to cope 2Your sense of time 2Use your strengths 1Breathing 1Food, caffeine and fuel 1Equanimity and perspective 1Feelings and focus 1Making it stick 1Reading, numbers and learning differences 1Remembering to do it 1Shame and stigma 1Touch and bodywork 1Treatment and medication 1Treatment and medication 1Living with uncertainty 1Being seen and judged 1What you are actually defending 1
Approach
ADHD skills 3Core 1
When · In a change
Any ordinary day 25Coming and going 10In a change 4Under stress 2After a row 1

An ADHD diagnosis usually arrives with two extra words attached: which presentation it is, and how severe. Both are descriptions of what gets in your way, not a grade you were awarded.

Inattentive, hyperactive and impulsive, or the two together, and then mild, moderate or severe. Mild means you met the threshold and the effect on…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 2:31

Teenage memories of this often come with a sting: the year you worked out how much longer everything took you than it seemed to take everybody else.

That is usually why adolescence is the period people can describe in detail. The work got harder, the scaffolding of primary school fell away, and…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 94:5

There is a difference between low mood you have carried all your life and low mood that grew out of years of working twice as hard for half the result. Both are real, and they need treating in a different order.

If the second describes you, the picture often lifts a fair way once the attention difficulties are being managed and the daily experience of falling…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 4:28

Assessing a child's thinking used to mean a referral, a waiting list and a report some months later. Brief cognitive tools an ordinary clinician can run have changed that, and the gap between noticing something and having a plan can now be a session rather than a season.

Learn one of them properly instead of dabbling in three. Know what it measures, what it does not, and how to talk about a score without turning it…

LongerGetting assessed and diagnosedCoreQur’an 18:66

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