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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7 practices
How long you have
Who it is written for · Me
Where you are right now
On your own, or with someone
Theme · Medication and how it works
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

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

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