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Getting assessed and diagnosed Five minutes Someone I care about Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 1 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 2

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 59 Me 35 Someone I care about 3

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Getting ready for something 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 2 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

Medication and how it works 71 Your nervous system 57 What anger actually is 42 Systems for daily life 39 Exercise, food and other supports 38 What ADHD actually is 36 Your sense of time 33 Equanimity and perspective 30 Grounding and settling 26 Treatment and medication 25 Moving your body 24 Screens and attention 23 The fear underneath anger 22 What worry does 22 Shame and stigma 20 The cost of avoiding 16 Bringing the future closer 15 Get started 15 What you are actually defending 15 Breaking the worry loop 15 Feelings and focus 15 Cool the body first 14 Breathing 14 Reading, numbers and learning differences 13 Structure and routine 13 The moment before you snap 12 Remembering to do it 12 Facing it a step at a time 11 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 When anger turns to harm 9 When you use something to cope 9 Making it stick 8 Righteous anger and perfectionism 8 Choosing your response 7 Self-compassion 7 Growing empathy 7 Emotions as signals 6 When everything feels flat 6 Tolerate distress 4 Being seen and judged 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 Shame 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 Practising under provocation 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Letting it out safely 1 Feeling from the inside 1 Help someone grieving 1 Question the thought 1 Rest and pacing 1 Use your strengths 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Touch and bodywork 1

When

In a change 2 Any ordinary day 1

Teenage memories of this often come with a sting: the year you worked out how much longer everything took you than it seemed to take everybody else.

That is usually why adolescence is the period people can describe in detail. The work got harder, the scaffolding of primary school fell away, and…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 94:5

The checklists were built around the loud version of this, and girls are more often the quiet version. If she is struggling and nobody has ever suggested an assessment, that is worth pressing on.

Defiance in girls can look like refusal, withdrawal or a long-running argument about friendships rather than the disruption a teacher would report.…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 20:114

Home DNA tests turn up relatives nobody expected. If someone is thinking of taking one to fill in a blank family history, it is worth saying out loud that it may hand them more than they asked for.

People find half siblings. Sometimes they find that the story they were told about their birth was not the story. That is a great deal to receive by…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 50:16

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