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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5 practices

Treatment and medication A minute Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have · A minute

A minute 5 Five minutes 22 Twenty minutes 11 Longer 10

Who it is written for

A practitioner 5 Someone I care about 3 Me 3 My husband or wife 1

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 4 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone

On my own 3 Both of us together 1 Involves someone else 1

Theme · Treatment and medication

Medication and how it works 22 Systems for daily life 20 Get started 20 Bringing the future closer 17 The moment before you snap 16 Structure and routine 16 Your nervous system 15 Fondness and admiration 14 Choosing your response 14 Your sense of time 14 Growing empathy 13 Treatment and medication 13 Knowing your partner 11 Answering bids 11 Staying regulated in conflict 10 Gratitude 9 Food, caffeine and fuel 9 Making it stick 9 Exercise, food and other supports 9 What anger actually is 9 Listening and understanding 8 Getting assessed and diagnosed 8 Touch and bodywork 8 Cool the body first 8 Breathing 7 Grounding and settling 7 Screens and attention 7 What ADHD actually is 7 Moving your body 7 When everything feels flat 6 Affection and touch 6 Feelings and focus 6 Remembering to do it 6 Equanimity and perspective 5 The cost of avoiding 5 Shared spiritual life 5 Being seen and judged 5 The fear underneath anger 5 Treatment and medication 5 Practising under provocation 4 Shame and stigma 4 Posture and how you carry yourself 4 What worry does 3 When you use something to cope 3 Emotions as signals 3 Self-compassion 3 Feeling from the inside 3 Your worth is not conditional 2 Reading, numbers and learning differences 2 Notice the pattern and flex 2 Obsessions and compulsions 2 Question the thought 2 Rebuilding trust 2 Tolerate distress 2 What you are actually defending 2 Facing it a step at a time 2 Face it gently 1 Get it out of your head 1 Keep the bond 1 Breaking the worry loop 1 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 Shame 1 Rituals of connection 1 Repair after rupture 1 Panic and the body 1

Approach

Medical and treatment 3 Core 1 CBT 1

When · Any ordinary day

Any ordinary day 5 Coming and going 1 Under stress 1 After a row 1

A lot of what people now know about ADHD came from a video. Some of it is genuinely good, some of it is not, and asking someone what they have been watching is a fair question to open with.

Creators who live with ADHD have done real good here. They have made people feel recognised and made asking for help less frightening, and some…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 21:7

ADHD is managed rather than cured, across a whole life. Anything advertising a cure is telling you it is not working from the evidence.

Managed sounds like a disappointment until you look at what it means in practice: treatment that fits your life now, adjusted when the life changes,…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:286

Most children with ADHD can tell you exactly what they should have done. The knowing was never the missing piece, which is why a course teaching the knowing changes so little.

Watch closely and you see the skill appear in quiet moments and vanish in loud ones, when another child has already grabbed the ball and there is…

A minuteTreatment and medicationCoreQur’an 9:105

If mindfulness is going to help with ADHD, the version with a chance is small and spread out. A few seconds of noticing, several times a day, rather than one long sitting you come to dread.

A forty five minute block asks you to get settled in one place and then somehow carry that into the afternoon, and the carrying is exactly what tends…

A minuteTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 22:78

By response rate, extended release stimulants are among the most effective medicines in psychiatry, and most people tolerate them well. That is worth hearing plainly, particularly from people who are not generally keen on medication.

What the long acting form buys you is coverage. A dose that has faded by four in the afternoon leaves the evening bare, and the evening is where home…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

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