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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5 practices

Treatment and medication A minute On my own Clear all

How long you have · A minute

A minute 5 Five minutes 21 Twenty minutes 9 Longer 8

Who it is written for

Me 5 A practitioner 5 Someone I care about 3 My husband or wife 1

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 2 Coping, mostly 2 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone · On my own

On my own 5 Involves someone else 2 Both of us together 1

Theme · Treatment and medication

The moment before you snap 34 Choosing your response 34 Staying regulated in conflict 32 Cool the body first 29 Your nervous system 24 What anger actually is 24 Grounding and settling 21 The fear underneath anger 20 Get started 19 Bringing the future closer 18 Medication and how it works 16 Equanimity and perspective 14 Your sense of time 14 Answering bids 13 Fondness and admiration 13 Treatment and medication 13 Systems for daily life 12 Making it stick 12 Structure and routine 12 Practising under provocation 11 Feelings and focus 11 Touch and bodywork 11 Growing empathy 10 Knowing your partner 9 Food, caffeine and fuel 9 Exercise, food and other supports 8 What ADHD actually is 8 Tolerate distress 7 Remembering to do it 7 Gratitude 7 What worry does 6 Repair after rupture 6 Moving your body 6 Screens and attention 6 When everything feels flat 6 Shame and stigma 5 Being seen and judged 5 Breathing 5 Shared spiritual life 5 Treatment and medication 5 What you are actually defending 5 Getting assessed and diagnosed 4 Self-compassion 4 Question the thought 4 Feeling from the inside 4 Name what you feel 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 When you use something to cope 3 Calm the body 2 Rituals of connection 2 Safety and grounding 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Working with anger 2 Patience and trust 2 Your worth is not conditional 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 Meaning after harm 2 Shame 2 Let the wave come 2 Ride the urge 2 Panic and the body 2 Hold a boundary 2 Rebuilding trust 2 Affection and touch 2 Emotions as signals 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 1 Act on your values 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Rest and pacing 1 When anger turns to harm 1 Validate yourself and others 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 When you go numb 1 Your window of tolerance 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Listening and understanding 1 Listen to the body 1 Keep the bond 1 Get it out of your head 1 Face it gently 1 Letting it out safely 1 Care for yourself in loss 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 3 CBT 1 ADHD skills 1

When

Any ordinary day 3 After a row 1 Coming and going 1

If someone selling you a treatment for ADHD uses the word cure, that is your cue to leave. There is no cure. What good treatment offers is fewer symptoms, and that is a real and worthwhile thing.

A registered clinician is not allowed to promise you an outcome, because nobody can honestly guarantee one. So a provider who promises makes you a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

ADHD is managed rather than cured, across a whole life. Anything advertising a cure is telling you it is not working from the evidence.

Managed sounds like a disappointment until you look at what it means in practice: treatment that fits your life now, adjusted when the life changes,…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

Listen for the sentence that says the child could manage all of this perfectly well if they only decided to. However kindly it is meant, that is the belief to take apart.

It sounds like encouragement and it works like a verdict, because it says the ability was always there and only the willingness was missing. In a…

A minuteTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 49:6

If mindfulness is going to help with ADHD, the version with a chance is small and spread out. A few seconds of noticing, several times a day, rather than one long sitting you come to dread.

A forty five minute block asks you to get settled in one place and then somehow carry that into the afternoon, and the carrying is exactly what tends…

A minuteTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 22:78

By response rate, extended release stimulants are among the most effective medicines in psychiatry, and most people tolerate them well. That is worth hearing plainly, particularly from people who are not generally keen on medication.

What the long acting form buys you is coverage. A dose that has faded by four in the afternoon leaves the evening bare, and the evening is where home…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

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