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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Medication and how it works Someone I care about Under stress Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 2

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 8 Me 7 Someone I care about 5

On your own, or with someone

On my own 4 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Medication and how it works

Grounding and settling 29 Cool the body first 26 Your nervous system 21 The fear underneath anger 17 What anger actually is 14 Feelings and focus 11 Equanimity and perspective 11 The moment before you snap 10 The cost of avoiding 9 Systems for daily life 9 Breathing 8 Moving your body 8 What worry does 7 Tolerate distress 6 Screens and attention 6 Shame and stigma 6 When anger turns to harm 6 Breaking the worry loop 6 Medication and how it works 5 Choosing your response 5 Facing it a step at a time 5 Shame 4 When everything feels flat 4 Letting it out safely 4 What you are actually defending 3 Bringing the future closer 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Treatment and medication 2 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Feeling from the inside 2 Structure and routine 2 Your sense of time 2 Growing empathy 2 Food, caffeine and fuel 2 Righteous anger and perfectionism 2 Self-compassion 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Making it stick 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Rest and pacing 1 Get started 1 When you use something to cope 1 Remembering to do it 1 What ADHD actually is 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 90 In a change 8 Coming and going 6 Under stress 5

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

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 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

For a small number of children the question was never about school reports. A toddler who runs into a road and keeps running, a child who climbs the pool fence: what is being weighed there is whether they stay alive.

Most decisions about treating a very young child are finely balanced and deserve to be taken slowly. Where the behaviour itself is life threatening,…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:84

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