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How long you have

A minute 14 Five minutes 71 Twenty minutes 20 Longer 4

Who it is written for · Someone I care about

A practitioner 175Me 155Someone I care about 109

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 58 Getting ready for something 40 Struggling right now 11

On your own, or with someone

On my own 46 Involves someone else 40 Both of us together 23

Theme · Medication and how it works

Systems for daily life 110Medication and how it works 109Your nervous system 94 Moving your body 70 What anger actually is 69 What ADHD actually is 61 Your sense of time 60 Exercise, food and other supports 58 Grounding and settling 58 Treatment and medication 54 Screens and attention 49 The fear underneath anger 48 Equanimity and perspective 48 Cool the body first 46 The cost of avoiding 41 Bringing the future closer 39 Shame and stigma 34 What worry does 32 Get started 31 Reading, numbers and learning differences 30 Structure and routine 30 Breathing 28 Feelings and focus 27 The moment before you snap 27 Food, caffeine and fuel 25 Breaking the worry loop 24 Remembering to do it 24 What you are actually defending 22 Facing it a step at a time 18 Making it stick 18 When you use something to cope 17 Tolerate distress 15 Choosing your response 15 Growing empathy 15 When everything feels flat 14 When anger turns to harm 13 Righteous anger and perfectionism 12 Self-compassion 11 Shame 10 Anger, alcohol and the body 8 Emotions as signals 8 Getting assessed and diagnosed 7 Use your strengths 7 Practising under provocation 6 Obsessions and compulsions 5 Being seen and judged 5 Touch and bodywork 4 Letting it out safely 4 Feeling from the inside 3 Help someone grieving 2 Question the thought 2 Rest and pacing 2 Living with uncertainty 1

When

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

When appetite disappears at lunchtime, work with the child's rhythm instead of against it. Feed them properly at the hours they are actually hungry, which is usually breakfast and then the late afternoon and evening.

What counts over a week is the total, not whether it arrived at the socially correct hour. A decent breakfast before the medicine takes hold, a light…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 7:32

If the medication question is the one burning a hole in your pocket, try holding it until last on purpose. Heard after everything else, the answer lands differently.

Most people arrive wanting to know about tablets and nothing else, and the risk in that is a plan made only of tablets. Sleep, movement, the shape of…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 3:159

With many of these medicines the unpleasant part turns up on day one and the good part takes weeks. Knowing that in advance is most of what carries people across the gap.

The first fortnight can feel like a bad bargain, because it is one: you pay now for something that arrives later. Put a date in the diary two to four…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

Treat the first fortnight as a stretch that needs contact rather than silence. Say plainly that things may feel worse before they feel better, and arrange to hear from the person during that window instead of after it.

This is when most people quietly stop. Somebody who has been warned experiences a rough two weeks as expected; somebody who has not experiences it as…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 3:159

Mechanism is a moving thing, so it is easier to watch than to read. A university made animation of what happens at the junction will teach you more in ten minutes than a page of description.

Prefer something made by a university or a public body over whatever a search puts at the top, since much of what is written about these drugs is…

Twenty minutesMedication and how it worksMedical and treatmentQur’an 49:6

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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