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How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 2Twenty minutes 1
Who it is written for · Me
A practitioner 7Me 4Someone I care about 2
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 2Struggling right now 2
On your own, or with someone
On my own 2Both of us together 1Involves someone else 1
Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed
The moment before you snap 32Cool the body first 30Grounding and settling 29Choosing your response 28Touch and bodywork 22Staying regulated in conflict 20Your nervous system 19What anger actually is 18Equanimity and perspective 15The fear underneath anger 15Feelings and focus 12Tolerate distress 11Breathing 10Answering bids 9Systems for daily life 9Practising under provocation 8Feeling from the inside 8Moving your body 8What worry does 7Medication and how it works 7Shame 6Affection and touch 6Bringing the future closer 6Breaking the worry loop 6Making it stick 6What you are actually defending 5When everything feels flat 5Knowing your partner 5Treatment and medication 5Question the thought 5Food, caffeine and fuel 5Growing empathy 4Emotions as signals 4Get started 4Getting assessed and diagnosed 4Posture and how you carry yourself 4Shame and stigma 4Letting it out safely 4Screens and attention 3Obsessions and compulsions 3Exercise, food and other supports 3Listening and understanding 3Let the wave come 3Facing it a step at a time 3Righteous anger and perfectionism 3Safety and grounding 3Name what you feel 3The cost of avoiding 3Being seen and judged 3Calm the body 3Working with anger 3Rebuild trust 2When anger turns to harm 2When you use something to cope 2Meaning after harm 2Patience and trust 2Ride the urge 2Self-compassion 2Your sense of time 2Your window of tolerance 1What ADHD actually is 1Validate yourself and others 1Treatment and medication 1Structure and routine 1Shared spiritual life 1Rest and pacing 1Repair after rupture 1Remembering to do it 1Act on your values 1Panic and the body 1Listen to the body 1Care for yourself in loss 1Anger, alcohol and the body 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 30Coming and going 12Under stress 4In a change 4

When someone says their heart races on their medication, ask whether it ever did before they started. It is the cheapest question you have and it usually sorts the answer out.

Go looking for the old settings: waiting to be called on in class, standing outside a room before a difficult conversation, three in the morning with…

A minuteGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 2:32

Very sweet, very salty, very fatty food acts on the reward system in a way that has more in common with a drug than with dinner. Reaching for it when you are flat is self-medication, not greed.

Knowing that changes what you do about it. Counting calories and resolving to try harder both aim at willpower, which was never the mechanism in the…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 39:53

With gambling machines the pull may be the lights and the noise as much as the chance of winning. That changes what you actually need to stay away from.

If the sensory buzz is doing the work, the triggers are not only the betting shop. They are the phone games built with the same flashing and chiming,…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 16:43

Attention and impulse problems that appear for the first time in middle age or later are not ADHD arriving late. They need a doctor to look, not a prescription.

Several conditions affecting the frontal lobes can show up first as new disinhibition, poor judgement or a change in personality, and some are…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:7

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