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How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 3Twenty minutes 1Longer 2
Who it is written for
A practitioner 7Me 6Someone I care about 4
Where you are right now
Struggling right now 6Coping, mostly 1
On your own, or with someone · On my own
On my own 7Involves someone else 1
Theme · Medication and how it works
The moment before you snap 30Cool the body first 30Grounding and settling 27Choosing your response 26Touch and bodywork 22Your nervous system 20What anger actually is 18The fear underneath anger 15Equanimity and perspective 14Breathing 10Tolerate distress 10Staying regulated in conflict 9Feelings and focus 9Feeling from the inside 8Practising under provocation 7Moving your body 7Medication and how it works 7Bringing the future closer 6Systems for daily life 6Making it stick 6Question the thought 5What worry does 5Breaking the worry loop 5Shame 5Food, caffeine and fuel 5When everything feels flat 4What you are actually defending 4Letting it out safely 4Shame and stigma 4Get started 4Facing it a step at a time 4Treatment and medication 4Calm the body 3Emotions as signals 3Growing empathy 3Let the wave come 3Name what you feel 3Obsessions and compulsions 3Posture and how you carry yourself 3Righteous anger and perfectionism 3Working with anger 3Your sense of time 2Screens and attention 2Safety and grounding 2Ride the urge 2Patience and trust 2Exercise, food and other supports 2Meaning after harm 2Knowing your partner 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 2When you use something to cope 2Being seen and judged 2Answering bids 2When anger turns to harm 2Self-compassion 2Validate yourself and others 1What ADHD actually is 1Listen to the body 1Reading, numbers and learning differences 1Act on your values 1Your window of tolerance 1Affection and touch 1Remembering to do it 1Rebuild trust 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1Panic and the body 1The cost of avoiding 1Care for yourself in loss 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 69Under stress 7In a change 6Coming and going 1

If a question at the counter feels like judgement rather than care, you are allowed to ask which it is. Is this a medical question or a personal one?

Asked evenly it does not start a row, and it returns the conversation to where it belongs. Pharmacists have proper clinical questions to ask about…

A minuteMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 7:32

The stimulant shortage is not your pharmacy being disorganised. Regulators set a fixed annual quota of the raw material, and the ceiling has been too low to cover the prescriptions being written.

Knowing that changes what you do with your energy. Ringing round twenty chemists is exhausting and it creates no supply, so spend the effort on…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 9:91

When a prescription cannot be filled, you can report it to the medicines regulator's shortage inbox, naming the medication and the pharmacy. Nobody writes back, and people often find their prescription turns up soon afterwards.

The value of this is partly practical and partly in not being stuck. Being told no at a counter, month after month, is what makes people quietly…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 65:3

A medicine can give you back some energy. It cannot turn a bad situation into a good one, and it helps to be clear which of the two you are hoping for.

If home has been miserable for two years, feeling steadier may just mean you notice the misery more sharply. People often read that as the medicine…

Five minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:83

A pharmacy refusing a valid prescription is often working from a made-up rule or a plain mistake. It can usually be escalated, and it usually resolves fast.

People have been turned away for having a prescriber in the next county, or told the shop does not stock narcotics for a medicine that is not one.…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 5:87

Being in recovery is not a reason to leave an attention difficulty untreated. The restlessness that made a substance useful is still there once the substance goes.

Clinicians often hold back here, uneasy about a stimulant for someone with a history, and that caution is understandable. The other choice carries a…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:83

For a small number of children the question was never about school reports. A toddler who runs into a road and keeps running, a child who climbs the pool fence: what is being weighed there is whether they stay alive.

Most decisions about treating a very young child are finely balanced and deserve to be taken slowly. Where the behaviour itself is life threatening,…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:84

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