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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How long you have

A minute 5 Five minutes 3

Who it is written for · Me

A practitioner 8 Me 8

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 15 Struggling right now 8 Getting ready for something 2

On your own, or with someone

On my own 7 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Treatment and medication

Your nervous system 47 What anger actually is 34 Grounding and settling 34 Cool the body first 28 The moment before you snap 27 Systems for daily life 25 Get started 24 Medication and how it works 23 Touch and bodywork 22 Feelings and focus 20 Screens and attention 19 Choosing your response 18 When everything feels flat 18 What ADHD actually is 17 Shame and stigma 16 Equanimity and perspective 16 Food, caffeine and fuel 15 Your sense of time 15 Getting assessed and diagnosed 15 The fear underneath anger 14 Tolerate distress 13 Moving your body 13 Obsessions and compulsions 12 Shame 12 Breathing 10 Treatment and medication 10 What worry does 10 Breaking the worry loop 9 Feeling from the inside 9 When you use something to cope 9 Being seen and judged 9 Practising under provocation 8 Treatment and medication 8 Emotions as signals 8 Remembering to do it 7 Bringing the future closer 7 Growing empathy 7 Structure and routine 6 Question the thought 6 Posture and how you carry yourself 6 Exercise, food and other supports 6 Making it stick 6 When you go numb 4 Letting it out safely 4 What you are actually defending 3 Facing it a step at a time 3 The cost of avoiding 3 Self-compassion 3 Living with uncertainty 3 When anger turns to harm 2 Rest and pacing 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Righteous anger and perfectionism 1 Panic and the body 1 Reading, numbers and learning differences 1 Use your strengths 1

When

Under stress 5 Any ordinary day 3

If something helped one part of your anxiety and did nothing for the rest, that is not proof it failed or that you are beyond help. Different parts of this run on different machinery.

The sudden bodily kind and the grinding thinking kind are handled by different systems, and a treatment that reaches one may have very little to grip…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

Something that settles a surge of panic within minutes and something that changes how often the surges come are doing two different jobs. A person can need both, and it helps to say which is which.

The fast option is a rescue. It works quickly, it is meant for the worst moments, and its usefulness is measured in that hour. The slower option is…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 38:42

Sedatives are good at damping the body down and much less good at quieting a mind that keeps going round. If the trouble is chronic worry, being made drowsy is not the same as being helped.

This is one of the commonest mismatches there is: something sedating given for grinding worry, leaving a person tired, foggy and still worrying.…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 10:57

How well something works in the moment and whether it is right for the long run are two separate questions. Fast relief is extremely convincing, which is exactly why it is worth pausing over.

When something reliably ends the worst feeling within twenty minutes, what your body learns is to reach for it sooner next time. That is not…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:84

There is an older antihistamine used for anxiety that works by making you drowsy and carries no risk of dependence. It suits a rough stretch, and it is a bridge rather than somewhere to settle.

The costs are the ordinary antihistamine ones: dry mouth, constipation, and for older people a genuine risk of confusion and falls, with effects on…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:184

Most people are a mixture rather than a clean example of one thing. If treatment has taken the edge off one part and left another standing, that is usually two problems, not one failure.

Someone whose panic has settled but who still spends every evening rehearsing tomorrow has had the fear part treated and the worry part left alone.…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

Wanting it to stop right now is not a character flaw, it is what anxiety does to a person. Saying the hurry out loud, instead of acting on it quietly, keeps it from making the decisions.

That urgency is the reason people creep a dose up, hop between supplements, and abandon anything slow before it has had a chance. Treating the hurry…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:83

When what is keeping you awake or on edge is your situation, a tablet can only do so much. That is not a failure of the medicine and it is certainly not a failure of you.

Noise, an unsafe home, night shifts, someone you are frightened of: none of these are altered by anything you swallow. The medicine may still be…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 65:7

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