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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4 practices

Medication and how it works Longer Someone I care about Clear all

How long you have · Longer

A minute 14 Five minutes 71 Twenty minutes 20 Longer 4

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 10 Me 9 Someone I care about 4

Where you are right now

Struggling right now 3 Coping, mostly 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Both of us together 1 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Medication and how it works

Moving your body 11 Systems for daily life 10 Treatment and medication 9 Your nervous system 5 What anger actually is 4 Food, caffeine and fuel 4 Equanimity and perspective 4 Medication and how it works 4 Shame and stigma 4 Use your strengths 4 Screens and attention 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Reading, numbers and learning differences 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 The cost of avoiding 2 Feelings and focus 2 What ADHD actually is 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Bringing the future closer 2 Breathing 2 When everything feels flat 2 Tolerate distress 2 Grounding and settling 2 Being seen and judged 1 Shame 1 Structure and routine 1 Self-compassion 1 What worry does 1 What you are actually defending 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Question the thought 1 Making it stick 1 Get started 1 Facing it a step at a time 1 When you use something to cope 1 Cool the body first 1 Your sense of time 1

When

Under stress 2 Any ordinary day 2

A child who has spent years being told they are careless will often say yes to whoever finally seems glad of them. Work on how they see themselves is not a soft extra to the clinical work.

Count the corrections in a single day and it is easy to see what accumulates. By the time an offer comes from someone friendly, the pull is belonging…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 39:53

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

If the first medicine disappoints, that is information about the first medicine. Plenty of people who get nothing from one class do well on another.

Methylphenidate and amphetamine are not the same drug at different strengths. They work by partly different routes, so a poor result on one says…

LongerMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

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