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How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 4Twenty minutes 1Longer 2
Who it is written for · A practitioner
A practitioner 8Me 7Someone I care about 5
Where you are right now
Struggling right now 7Coping, mostly 1
On your own, or with someone
On my own 7Involves someone else 1
Theme · Medication and how it works
Cool the body first 31Grounding and settling 30The moment before you snap 28Your nervous system 23Choosing your response 23Touch and bodywork 22What anger actually is 20The fear underneath anger 18Feelings and focus 16Equanimity and perspective 15Breathing 10The cost of avoiding 10Systems for daily life 9Feeling from the inside 9Shame 8Medication and how it works 8Moving your body 8Practising under provocation 8Tolerate distress 8Screens and attention 8What worry does 7Getting assessed and diagnosed 7When anger turns to harm 6Bringing the future closer 6Making it stick 6When everything feels flat 6Shame and stigma 6Breaking the worry loop 6Facing it a step at a time 5Treatment and medication 5Food, caffeine and fuel 5Emotions as signals 5Letting it out safely 4What you are actually defending 4Get started 4Posture and how you carry yourself 4Growing empathy 4Obsessions and compulsions 4Exercise, food and other supports 3Being seen and judged 3Righteous anger and perfectionism 3Question the thought 3Structure and routine 2Treatment and medication 2Your sense of time 2Self-compassion 2Reading, numbers and learning differences 2When you use something to cope 2Remembering to do it 1Rest and pacing 1What ADHD actually is 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1Panic and the body 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 147In a change 14Under stress 8Coming and going 6

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

Waking your child at six to give the tablet so it has taken hold by breakfast, then letting them fall back to sleep, is not a strange thing you invented because you are failing. It is a reasonable answer to a real gap in how the medicine works.

Families quietly carry a lot of these. The early alarm, the switch to a faster product, the parent who does the whole morning alone because it goes…

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

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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