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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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9 practices
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How long you have
A minute 1Five minutes 2Twenty minutes 4Longer 2
Who it is written for
A practitioner 8Someone I care about 7Me 6My husband or wife 2
Where you are right now · Struggling right now
Coping, mostly 39Struggling right now 9
On your own, or with someone
On my own 7Both of us together 1Involves someone else 1
Theme · Treatment and medication
Your nervous system 29Get started 20Screens and attention 17Medication and how it works 16What ADHD actually is 13Systems for daily life 12What anger actually is 12Your sense of time 10Shame and stigma 10Food, caffeine and fuel 10When everything feels flat 9Treatment and medication 9Reading, numbers and learning differences 8Obsessions and compulsions 8Getting assessed and diagnosed 8Equanimity and perspective 7Touch and bodywork 7The fear underneath anger 6Shame 6The moment before you snap 6When you use something to cope 6Tolerate distress 5Moving your body 5Structure and routine 5Being seen and judged 5Grounding and settling 5Feelings and focus 5What worry does 4Exercise, food and other supports 3Feeling from the inside 3Emotions as signals 3Treatment and medication 3Cool the body first 3Practising under provocation 3Choosing your response 3Question the thought 3The cost of avoiding 3Growing empathy 3Breaking the worry loop 2Living with uncertainty 2When you go numb 2Posture and how you carry yourself 2Facing it a step at a time 1Making it stick 1What you are actually defending 1Use your strengths 1Bringing the future closer 1Breathing 1Self-compassion 1Remembering to do it 1
Approach
Medical and treatment 7ADHD skills 2
When · Any ordinary day
Any ordinary day 9After a row 4In a change 2When apart 1

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

After a working lifetime in this field, Barkley names the change in how a family sees the child as the most important step of all. Not the medication, not the charts.

The reason is practical rather than sentimental. Every other part of treatment asks parents to keep going for weeks with very little to show for it,…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 13:11

Being told ADHD is largely inherited can sound like being told nothing can be done. It does not follow, and the two questions are separate ones.

How much of something a person shows, day to day, moves a good deal with what is around them, even when the underlying trait is strongly heritable.…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 12:87

Massage may well leave you calmer, and calmer is worth having. It is not a treatment for ADHD, and the two are worth keeping in separate boxes.

Living with ADHD is stressful in a measurable way, so anything that genuinely lowers that load is doing real good and deserves a place. The error is…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 4:28

Do not write off simply sitting with someone. When researchers looked into why dummy treatments helped, one of the things they kept finding was half an hour of a person's full attention.

Thirty minutes of someone listening properly to your difficulties is not filler around the real treatment. Across the talking therapies, who the…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 3:159

A great many people are diagnosed and then left with a starting dose nobody ever revisited, no reading, no group, nothing else at all. If things have stalled, the first thing to check is whether the treatment was ever actually finished.

Optimising is unglamorous and often the quickest thing available. Was the dose ever adjusted upwards, and on what basis. Does the cover reach the…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 65:2

If the prescriber, coach or therapist is not delivering much, say so and ask for someone else. Working around poor care quietly is the thing that convinces a couple this is simply as good as it gets.

A dose never revisited, or a therapist who has never worked with ADHD, sets a low ceiling. The trouble is that the ceiling gets read as the person:…

Twenty minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:87

Think of ADHD as sitting at the centre of an onion. Poor sleep, sleep apnoea, low vitamin levels, allergy, ongoing pain, untreated anxiety or low mood all sit in layers around it, and each one makes the centre look worse than it is.

This explains something that otherwise looks strange: treatments that do nothing whatever for ADHD can still make a real difference, because they…

LongerTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 9:105

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

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