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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.
Sleep, food and movement will not cure anything, but they lengthen the fuse. Bad moments still arrive, and you handle them differently when your body is not already running on empty.
This matters more here than it sounds, because ADHD tends to wreck exactly these three and then the wreckage feeds back into the flare ups. Late…
The diet evidence has drifted away from cutting particular things out and towards eating decently overall. That is easier on everyone at the table.
Removing additives or colourings helps a small number of children, and the trouble is that you cannot tell in advance who they are, so most families…
Think of ADHD as sitting at the centre of an onion. Poor sleep, sleep apnoea, low vitamin levels, allergy, ongoing pain, untreated anxiety or low mood all sit in layers around it, and each one makes the centre look worse than it is.
This explains something that otherwise looks strange: treatments that do nothing whatever for ADHD can still make a real difference, because they…
Think of it the way you would think about diabetes. Something to manage with several things at once, most days, for as long as it is there.
That frame does a lot of quiet work. It says the treatment is ongoing rather than a course you finish, it explains why things slide back when…
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.
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
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…