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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Getting assessed and diagnosed Twenty minutes On my own Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 4 Five minutes 32 Twenty minutes 4 Longer 2

Who it is written for

A practitioner 4 Me 3

Where you are right now

Getting ready for something 3 Coping, mostly 1

On your own, or with someone · On my own

Both of us together 9 Involves someone else 4 On my own 4

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Systems for daily life 23 Moving your body 17 Medication and how it works 13 Your nervous system 12 Get started 12 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 What ADHD actually is 10 Treatment and medication 9 What anger actually is 8 Bringing the future closer 7 Your sense of time 7 Screens and attention 7 The moment before you snap 6 Cool the body first 6 Feelings and focus 6 Tolerate distress 6 Touch and bodywork 6 Grounding and settling 5 Reading, numbers and learning differences 5 The fear underneath anger 5 Getting assessed and diagnosed 4 Exercise, food and other supports 4 Shame 4 When everything feels flat 4 Remembering to do it 4 When you use something to cope 4 Shame and stigma 3 Righteous anger and perfectionism 3 Practising under provocation 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Use your strengths 3 Equanimity and perspective 3 Emotions as signals 3 Choosing your response 3 Breathing 3 Being seen and judged 3 Breaking the worry loop 2 Structure and routine 2 When anger turns to harm 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Facing it a step at a time 2 Letting it out safely 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Making it stick 2 Repair after rupture 1 Shared spiritual life 1 The cost of avoiding 1 Treatment and medication 1 Listen to the body 1 Care for yourself in loss 1 Living with uncertainty 1 What worry does 1 What you are actually defending 1 Keep the bond 1 Safety and grounding 1 Rest and pacing 1 Question the thought 1 Posture and how you carry yourself 1

When

Coming and going 3 Any ordinary day 1

If you cannot remember much about being six, you are in the majority. Early childhood comes back poorly for most adults, while the teenage years are far easier to describe.

So do not sit in an assessment feeling you have failed a test because the early years are a blur. Bring what you can find instead: old school…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

A list of symptoms on its own does not make a diagnosis. What counts is that they cost you something real in at least two areas of ordinary life.

That means work or school, money, home, friendships, driving, getting through the week. Almost everyone loses keys and drifts off in meetings, so the…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 24:61

Much of the symptom wording was written with children in mind. If a question sounds like it is about someone climbing the furniture, translate it into your adult life rather than answering no.

Restlessness at forty is rarely running about. It is being unable to sit through a film, the leg going under the table, two jobs left out of boredom.…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 91:8

Note who is a first degree relative and who is a second, instead of writing 'runs in the family'. Parents, children and siblings sit in one ring. Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins sit in the next.

A simple grid helps: names down the side, then relation, what they were like, what was ever diagnosed, what was ever treated. The picture comes out…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 58:11

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