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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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25 practices
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Area
Focus, starting, and ADHD 13Worry and anxiety 5Low mood and hard feelings 4Anger 2Your body 1
How long you have · Longer
A minute 11Five minutes 46Twenty minutes 27Longer 25
Who it is written for
A practitioner 24Me 22Someone I care about 16
Where you are right now
Getting ready for something 10Struggling right now 8Coping, mostly 7
On your own, or with someone
On my own 13Involves someone else 9Both of us together 3
Theme
Systems for daily life 4When everything feels flat 3What ADHD actually is 2Being seen and judged 2Medication and how it works 2The cost of avoiding 1What anger actually is 1Use your strengths 1Shame and stigma 1Your sense of time 1Panic and the body 1Obsessions and compulsions 1Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Get started 1Equanimity and perspective 1When you use something to cope 1Your nervous system 1
Approach
ADHD skills 10Medical and treatment 5CBT 4Core 3Body based 1DBT skills 1Parts work 1
When · In a change
Any ordinary day 133In a change 25Under stress 18After a row 2When apart 2Coming and going 2

You cannot work out in advance what will light you up. The only reliable method is a wide and slightly undignified search: many activities, many people, plenty of reading and watching, until something catches.

This means giving yourself permission to try things badly and drop them, which is hard if you have been told all your life that you never finish…

LongerUse your strengthsADHD skillsQur’an 92:4

Far more people have ADHD than are ever assessed for it. If you have wondered about yourself for years, the odds that an assessment would be worth your time are better than you think.

The usual fear is being told you are making it up, or wasting a professional's morning. In practice adults are missed far more often than they are…

LongerWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 16:43

There is no age at which finding out stops being worth it. People have been diagnosed in their eighties and described it as the first explanation that ever fitted.

A late diagnosis will not give back the jobs or the years, and it is fair to grieve those. What it does is rewrite the story: not a person who kept…

LongerWhat ADHD actually isADHD skillsQur’an 39:9

The years you spent angry are not written off. The drive that wrecked things is the same drive available now for putting things right.

This is not a way of saying the damage was worth it. It is about what is still in your hands. People who have hurt others through their temper often…

LongerWhat anger actually isCoreQur’an 42:40

When someone finally reaches somewhere safe, do not be surprised if they fall apart rather than bloom. Stay close through that part.

People who have lived on high alert often start grieving once the danger stops, and it can look like going backwards: more tears, more fear about the…

LongerYour nervous systemBody basedQur’an 106:4

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