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How long you have
A minute 5Five minutes 22Twenty minutes 11Longer 10
Who it is written for
A practitioner 44Someone I care about 34Me 28My husband or wife 7
Where you are right now
Coping, mostly 39Struggling right now 9
On your own, or with someone
On my own 34Involves someone else 8Both of us together 6
Theme · Treatment and medication
Medication and how it works 148Systems for daily life 90Your nervous system 87Get started 69Getting assessed and diagnosed 64Your sense of time 58What anger actually is 58Moving your body 56Exercise, food and other supports 55Food, caffeine and fuel 53The moment before you snap 49Treatment and medication 48What ADHD actually is 48Bringing the future closer 46Choosing your response 45Screens and attention 44Touch and bodywork 38Equanimity and perspective 37When everything feels flat 34Grounding and settling 34Structure and routine 33Feelings and focus 32The fear underneath anger 31Reading, numbers and learning differences 31Practising under provocation 30Growing empathy 29What worry does 26Shame and stigma 25Cool the body first 25The cost of avoiding 24Being seen and judged 24Breathing 24Making it stick 24Treatment and medication 23Remembering to do it 20Knowing your partner 20When you use something to cope 19Breaking the worry loop 16Shared spiritual life 16Feeling from the inside 16Facing it a step at a time 16Fondness and admiration 14What you are actually defending 14Righteous anger and perfectionism 13Obsessions and compulsions 13Emotions as signals 13Answering bids 12Tolerate distress 12Staying regulated in conflict 11Listening and understanding 10Posture and how you carry yourself 9Gratitude 9Use your strengths 8Self-compassion 8Affection and touch 7Shame 7Rituals of connection 7Question the thought 6Anger, alcohol and the body 6When anger turns to harm 6Rebuilding trust 5When you go numb 3Your worth is not conditional 3Repair after rupture 3Rest and pacing 3Panic and the body 3Notice the pattern and flex 3Living with uncertainty 3Work with your brain 2Face it gently 2Act on your values 2Keep the bond 2Meaning after harm 2Get it out of your head 2Find meaning 2Your window of tolerance 1Care for yourself in loss 1Safety and grounding 1Listen to the body 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 29ADHD skills 10Core 5CBT 4
When · Any ordinary day
Any ordinary day 48Coming and going 12After a row 4In a change 4Under stress 2When apart 1

Think of it the way you would think about diabetes. Something to manage with several things at once, most days, for as long as it is there.

That frame does a lot of quiet work. It says the treatment is ongoing rather than a course you finish, it explains why things slide back when…

LongerTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 2:185

The stack goes: understand it, medicate where that is right, change what the adults do, change what the day asks, and keep arguing the child's corner. Each layer does a job the others cannot.

None of them stands in for another, which is why swapping one out leaves a gap rather than a smaller plan. Medication does not reorganise a…

LongerTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 42:38

Behaviour work for ADHD is mostly about changing what the adults do. The child's behaviour shifts afterwards, as a consequence.

Consequences live in other people's responses, and a child who cannot yet hold a reward in mind across three days cannot supply them for themselves.…

LongerTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 16:127

A child's reputation is made in the classroom, mostly out of adult earshot, and it follows them from one year to the next. Teachers who work on how the class treats the child, and not only on the child, can move it.

The version that has been trialled has the teacher doing small deliberate things: pairing children with some thought, noticing this child out loud…

LongerTreatment and medicationCoreQur’an 24:61

The therapy that helps adult ADHD is not really about arguing with your thoughts. It is practical work on how your week is built, and it works because you are the one who can go and rebuild it.

Sessions tend to circle the same handful of things. Where the list lives, what the calendar actually does when you are not looking at it, how a large…

LongerTreatment and medicationCBTQur’an 2:286

The most convincing programme for teenagers does the obvious thing. It runs at school, twice a week, so nobody has to be driven anywhere: homework systems, organisation, some social practice and sport, in the place where the trouble actually happens.

By the teenage years the leverage parents had is thinning, and a clinic appointment is the first thing to fall off the week. Putting the help inside…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 2:185

The trouble now is not that nothing works. It is that the things which work are spread unevenly, and whether a family gets any of them depends heavily on where they happen to live.

Medication travels reasonably well, since a prescriber can be found in most places. The psychological and behavioural work travels badly, because it…

LongerTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 16:69

Paying someone to help sort the house will not mend the marriage. It will remove one of the things you fight about most weeks, and that counts for more than it sounds.

Nobody should pretend this reaches anything deep. The point is arithmetic. A couple has a certain number of rows in them, and if the living room is…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

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