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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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65 practices
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How long you have
A minute 8Five minutes 27Twenty minutes 18Longer 12
Who it is written for · A practitioner
A practitioner 65Someone I care about 54Me 42My husband or wife 9
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 36Struggling right now 15Getting ready for something 14
On your own, or with someone
On my own 38Involves someone else 19Both of us together 8
Theme · Treatment and medication
Medication and how it works 175Your nervous system 119Systems for daily life 111What anger actually is 97Getting assessed and diagnosed 93The moment before you snap 80Grounding and settling 71Moving your body 71Get started 70Choosing your response 69Equanimity and perspective 68Cool the body first 65Touch and bodywork 65Treatment and medication 65What ADHD actually is 65Feelings and focus 64Your sense of time 64Exercise, food and other supports 61The fear underneath anger 61Screens and attention 60Food, caffeine and fuel 58When everything feels flat 54Bringing the future closer 53Practising under provocation 46The cost of avoiding 43Growing empathy 35Shame and stigma 35Breathing 35Reading, numbers and learning differences 34Structure and routine 34What worry does 34Making it stick 33Treatment and medication 31Emotions as signals 30Being seen and judged 28Feeling from the inside 25Breaking the worry loop 24Tolerate distress 24Facing it a step at a time 24When you use something to cope 24What you are actually defending 22Remembering to do it 22Shame 19Obsessions and compulsions 18Righteous anger and perfectionism 17When anger turns to harm 15Posture and how you carry yourself 13Self-compassion 11Anger, alcohol and the body 8Use your strengths 8Question the thought 8When you go numb 7Panic and the body 5Rest and pacing 5Living with uncertainty 5Letting it out safely 4
Approach
Medical and treatment 40ADHD skills 15CBT 5Core 5
When
Any ordinary day 44Coming and going 10In a change 4After a row 4Under stress 2When apart 1

The therapy that helps adult ADHD is not really about arguing with your thoughts. It is practical work on how your week is built, and it works because you are the one who can go and rebuild it.

Sessions tend to circle the same handful of things. Where the list lives, what the calendar actually does when you are not looking at it, how a large…

LongerTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 2:286

The most convincing programme for teenagers does the obvious thing. It runs at school, twice a week, so nobody has to be driven anywhere: homework systems, organisation, some social practice and sport, in the place where the trouble actually happens.

By the teenage years the leverage parents had is thinning, and a clinic appointment is the first thing to fall off the week. Putting the help inside…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

The trouble now is not that nothing works. It is that the things which work are spread unevenly, and whether a family gets any of them depends heavily on where they happen to live.

Medication travels reasonably well, since a prescriber can be found in most places. The psychological and behavioural work travels badly, because it…

LongerTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 16:69

Paying someone to help sort the house will not mend the marriage. It will remove one of the things you fight about most weeks, and that counts for more than it sounds.

Nobody should pretend this reaches anything deep. The point is arithmetic. A couple has a certain number of rows in them, and if the living room is…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

People who are sleeping properly, eating properly and moving a bit tend to want each other more. The unglamorous parts of life management run closer to the bedroom than either of you might expect.

It is worth saying out loud when desire has quietly gone from a marriage, because the usual explanations reach for something heavier: he has lost…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

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