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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Treatment and medication Struggling right now Any ordinary day Clear all

How long you have

A minute 2 Five minutes 1

Who it is written for

Me 3 A practitioner 3

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 20 Struggling right now 3

Theme · Treatment and medication

Your nervous system 29 Get started 20 Screens and attention 17 Medication and how it works 16 What ADHD actually is 13 Systems for daily life 12 What anger actually is 12 Shame and stigma 10 Food, caffeine and fuel 10 Your sense of time 10 Treatment and medication 9 When everything feels flat 9 Reading, numbers and learning differences 8 Obsessions and compulsions 8 Getting assessed and diagnosed 8 Equanimity and perspective 7 Touch and bodywork 7 The fear underneath anger 6 When you use something to cope 6 Shame 6 The moment before you snap 6 Tolerate distress 5 Structure and routine 5 Grounding and settling 5 Feelings and focus 5 Moving your body 5 Being seen and judged 5 What worry does 4 Question the thought 3 Practising under provocation 3 The cost of avoiding 3 Exercise, food and other supports 3 Treatment and medication 3 Feeling from the inside 3 Growing empathy 3 Emotions as signals 3 Cool the body first 3 Choosing your response 3 When you go numb 2 Posture and how you carry yourself 2 Living with uncertainty 2 Breaking the worry loop 2 Bringing the future closer 1 Breathing 1 Remembering to do it 1 Use your strengths 1 Making it stick 1 What you are actually defending 1 Self-compassion 1 Facing it a step at a time 1

When · Any ordinary day

Under stress 5 Any ordinary day 3

If something helped one part of your anxiety and did nothing for the rest, that is not proof it failed or that you are beyond help. Different parts of this run on different machinery.

The sudden bodily kind and the grinding thinking kind are handled by different systems, and a treatment that reaches one may have very little to grip…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 26:80

Sedatives are good at damping the body down and much less good at quieting a mind that keeps going round. If the trouble is chronic worry, being made drowsy is not the same as being helped.

This is one of the commonest mismatches there is: something sedating given for grinding worry, leaving a person tired, foggy and still worrying.…

A minuteTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 10:57

Most people are a mixture rather than a clean example of one thing. If treatment has taken the edge off one part and left another standing, that is usually two problems, not one failure.

Someone whose panic has settled but who still spends every evening rehearsing tomorrow has had the fear part treated and the worry part left alone.…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 94:5

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